Friday, December 10, 2004



In defence of the political cartoonists’ licence to mock Imagination

Eye on Politics & Law Lords: AN EXCUSE WE NEVER THOUGHT OF
Ach, this explains all those risque ideas ...

Russian teenage boys show little regard for their own well-being and are dying in higher numbers than their peers in other former Soviet republics and in Eastern Europe.
Teen deaths can be linked specifically to a society that places little value on life, a contempt for safety rules, alcohol abuse and stress, which is exacerbated by a lack of close family or friends and media that flaunt unattainable lifestyles, sociologists said.


Slavs: Men Show Little Regard for Their Own Safety [The Role of Black Sheep What are these troublemakers good for anyway? ]
• · Our world has changed so much over the last fifteen years that it may be difficult for today’s reader to get a sense of the degree of skepticism there once was in the West over the possibility of a democratic transformation inside the Soviet Union. The CIS still thinks Perestroika is working
• · · American Trying to Rid Mexico Town of Taxing Rats
• · · · Political dust settles in BEWARE GIFTS: Income growth means tax cut
• · · · · Theo van Gogh Everyone knew him, or at least knew of him ; [Press Gallery Story: PM offers to sleep with journalists' wives]
• · · · · · Details of blunder on security kept secret