The heinously overcrowded patch of delta that is Bangladesh finds itself in a painful and familiar position. The country is struggling to cope with the aftermath of a natural calamity—in this case cyclonic winds that tore across the southern coastline a week earlier, killing several thousand people. Perhaps only in Bangladesh-the original "basket case" in Henry Kissinger's scornful terminology-would the latest catastrophe be regarded as less than historic.
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