Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Monday | October 6, 2003
A war of attrition
THE NEWS stories come with distressing regularity. They go like this: A Palestinian suicide-bomber blew up a bus or a restaurant or a night club in an Israeli town today, killing several persons.
I WATCHED Brother Mark take care of Matthew, a young cripple whose legs are permanently shaped like Vs. Matthew is bedridden. He had messed his pants. I had gone to look for fresh clothes. - Fr. Richard Ho Lung
IF IT is possible to tell personality types by the way people sleep, it should be even easier to determine who we are by how we towel and where we towel first. - Tony Deyal
THE UNIVERSITY of the West Indies, Mona, is almost always in the news. Most recently, at least one commentator, Dr. Ralph Thompson, has stoutly put forward the view that public funding for the University should be reduced... - Stephen Vasciannie
INCONCLUSIVE REPORTS from International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors. United States-backed deadlines and ultimatums. Mixed signals from the regime in power... - Dan Rather
