Assassination as public policy
IN A particularly nasty outburst of demagoguery, Pat Robertson, the American TV evangelist and founder of the Conservative Coalition which helped George W. Bush become president, has called on the United States to assassinate Mr. Hugo Chavez...
About Garvey, from Garvey
PUBLIC OPINION, which Garvey scholar Rupert Lewis describes as the organ of Jamaica's intelligentsia reflecting the views of the People's National Party, ran an obituary on Marcus Garvey on June 15, 1940, days after his death. - Martin Henry
Stealing with service
A HARD-WORKING young man takes his Mitsubishi motor car to be serviced.After he has handed over the vehicle and left the businessplace, he realises that he has left US$30 in the car, which he immediately writes off as 'missing'. - Melville Cooke
Iraq's constitutional showdown
IRAQ'S TORTUOUS constitutional process is getting a little smoother. The deadline to submit a draft constitution to parliament was extended earlier this month when agreement could not be reached. - John Rapley
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