Museworthy: Life, Related to 'Bread'
Todaythat man's sister, his wife,two of histhree children?a new path.
The small boyrescued from the pyrehe feeds withbits of bread.
Despite painthere is no question:These are your lives!These are your
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BY FAROOQ TARIQ &
RAJA MEHBOOB HUSSAIN
LAHORE — On August 8, the military government of President Pervez
Musharraf declared that its previously announced plan to privatise Pakistan's
educational institutions would not take place.
For the past three years, corporate polluters have been working to undermine the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), at which delegations from 174 countries will gather in Johannesburg, South Africa, from August 26 to September 4.
LAGOS — One woman was shot dead on August 8 in Nigeria's southern oil
town of Warri when groups of women protesters besieged the premises of
oil transnationals Royal-Dutch Shell and ChevronTexaco, witnesses said.
They said two groups of
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY
MOSCOW — No-one is surprised any more to hear economic bad news from the United States. Nevertheless, the failure of WorldCom has been something out of the ordinary.
It is not just the scale of the bankruptcy. Six months
BY ALISON DELLIT
The ALP's current navel-gaze reminds me somewhat of the Time Warp. Not John Howard's back-to-the-1950s time warp, but the Rocky Horror dance: a jump to the "left", a step to the "right", a bit of pelvic thrusting and you end up
War is peace
"I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace." — George "The Crusader" Bush, August 7.
Having a bet each way
"The death tax is punitive on small business owners. It is very tough on farmers and ranchers.
BY NORM DIXON
A carefully choreographed meeting of the "Iraqi opposition" was held in Washington on August 9 and 10. Attending were leaders from six right-wing groups opposed to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The US government is seeking to
BY RAY FULCHER
MELBOURNE — More 100 people attended the “'War on Terrorism': Democracy
Under Challenge” conference in Melbourne on August 9. The conference was
hosted by the Victoria University law school and supported by the Federation
of
The days are getting colderThey stretch before me all in a lineEach night gets a little bit longerAnd these stars that once were strange now I call mineOh, it's been so long since I saw her faceAnd I just can't find my way out of this placeI took the
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to
Be So HatedBy Gore VidalThunder's MouthPress/Nation Books, 2002160 pp., $29.20 (bp)
REVIEWED BY ROLAND SHEPPARD
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war to whip
the citizenry into a
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