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Today in Times Comment

• Magnus Linklater: How to spot a homicidal stalker - The violent act has to be predicted before the event, rather than unravelled afterwards
• Alice Miles: It is absurd for Labour to have lost public trust in the NHS and Brown must be desperate to regain it
• Daniel Finkelstein: Experiments have shown that in different situations the same sort of people behave differently
• Peter Riddell: Mr Brown perhaps only deserves a yellow, rather than a red, card at this stage, a caution against excessive enthusiasm
• Richard Morrison: Rachel Carson’s book expressed the idea of the world as a delicate web of interdependent species
• Alan Coren: If I ever get depressed enough to need a walk in the country, I shall come home twice as depressed as I was before
• Carol Sarler: Investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is not helped by psychics, prurience or false sightings

And from the rest of the papers…

• Terence Blacker: (The Independent) - The world according to Sir Alan Sugar? Now there's a thought
• Philip Hensher: (The Independent) - The ban on smoking has become a vendetta
• Hamish McRae: (The Independent) - Sarkozy could teach Brown a lesson
• Simon Heffer: (The Daily Telegraph) - Our next prime minister has been smiling a lot lately but come the next election, he may struggle to find so much to smile about
• Alan Mallinson: (The Daily Telegraph) - Before we undertake more military interventions, we must ask questions about our planning for the Iraq war and its aftermath
• Andrew Marr: (The Daily Telegraph) - My mobile phone is jiggling with calls from friends with a smorgasbord of questions for Gordon Brown
• Zoe Williams: (The Guardian) - Unpaid work experience is just another form of social screening. Only the wealthy can work for free
• Simon Jenkins: (The Guardian) - Cerebral Brown has caved in. This is cynical Brown's work
• Jonathan Freedland: (The Guardian) - Labour has been been gripped by election fever. Here are seven ways the chancellor can turn the frenzy to his advantage

And from around the world…

• Bernard Lewis: (The Wall Street Journal) - Islamists always believed the U.S. was weak. Recent political trends won't change their view
• Herb B. Berkowitz: (The Wall Street Journal) - Roll over, iPod: There's nothing like a genuine jukebox
• Michael Gerson: (Washington Post) - The (relatively) conservative Christians of the Southern Hemisphere are gaining influence over their (relatively) liberal Northern brethren
• Jon Tracy: (New York Times) - When soldiers at war run amok, prosecution is only the first step toward justice. Legitimate compensation and a real show of contrition must also be offered
• Caroline Glick: (Jerusalem Post) - Why anyone would believe that an Israeli surrender of the eternal capital of the Jewish people to Hamas will lead to peace is anyone's guess.
• Mitsuru Kitano: (Japan Times) - The true meaning of Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the United States