We need a day to ponder
Maybe Labour Day should be replaced with Bum Day says our resident traveller.
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Newspaper columns
Saving the Mothers
Women and children, in New Orleans or the Third World, often suffer the most in disasters.
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Two solitudes
The western and Islamic worlds clearly don’t understand one another, as the botched Newsweek report on the Koran clearly shows.
Camilla Effect one big yawn
Clearly the marriage gods were telling me something. Your marriage is something very noble. Don’t blow it. Because, yes, it also has the potential to burst into flames.
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In Africa, the bicycle rules
It not only returns life to its natural pace, but the bicycle is the great leveller.
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The everyday feel of death
In Uganda, the land has uncommon beauty, and life has its own strange mix of dark memories of killings, talk of restorative justice, and forgiveness.
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Dubai is on a roll
Booming, oil-rich city is luring outsiders. That s likely why it feels so hollow.
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