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Eye on Politics & Law Lords: Lean to the Left, Lean to the Right Mrs Tymoshenko
Ukraine does not have professional political assasins yet ...
Veronica Khokhlova confirms The Economist’s warning that, though she may look like Audrey Hepburn, anyone who has got this far in a country where politics often resembles a Jacobean revenge tragedy must have an edge. Mrs Tymoshenko is an awesome politician - full of dignity, full of class, soft yet has some very deadly poison hidden underneath, very convincing when she speaks, prepared wonderfully to any kinds of questions, be it about the opposition’s plans, her own finances or her alleged radicalism. She’s beautiful, too, but her looks are as much of an asset as they are not.
• The Colour Orange - The Political Edge [Doctors at the Austrian clinic that treated Ukraine’s opposition leader confirm there was a plot to kill him. Victor’s face disfigured with cysts and lesions. As suggested two days ago specialists in Britain, the United States and France had helped to establish that it was a biological agent, a chemical agent or, most likely, a rare poison that struck him down in the run-up to the presidential election Who poisoned Yushchenko? (Ach, one wonders who actually pulled the trigger - John Neumenko?) ]
• · In the name of diversity, let's trade some liberal sociologists for conservative oil executives Those Poor College Conservatives [I like the old maxim that academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small. How else to explain the intramural conflicts that erupt over such searing campus issues as tenure and parking?]