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A day for the elderly: International Day of Older People is on October 1, a time to ruminate on the role of senior citizens in society

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Earlier this week, as I was going through my monthly scheduler, it occurred to me that it was time to observe the International Day of Older People.And it got me thinking. What exactly does this day signify? Who does it refer to? Is it only for our grandparents? Or does it include all our ageing […]

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It’s a race to the Bottom: If surrounded by astonishing incompetence, hail Peter Principle

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Sometime in the late 1930s or early 1940s, a newly minted Canadian schoolteacher, Laurence J. Peter, saw a door sign -“Emergency Exit. Authorised Personnel Only” – in the august institution he was working. He looked around and saw another sign: “Emergency Exit. Not To Be Used Under Any Circumstances”. Peter went to the library and

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