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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Thursday | December 29, 2005
Learning from rain
THE LESSON we learnt in 2004 was: don't build houses in wetlands. The images of misery in Portland Cottage are still fresh in our minds. What lesson can we learn from the year of extraordinary rainfall just ending?
Half and half
RECENT EVENTS of the lactose intolerant kind have once again raised the sometimes smelly question of what exactly a woman should get from her ex-husband upon a divorce. In fact, the issue goes beyond marriage... - Melville Cooke
Trip to Narnia
WALT DISNEY has taken C.S. Lewis' children's novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and converted it into a blockbuster movie. Lewis, the classical scholar and atheist-turned Christian had a far more serious purpose... - Martin Henry
Eastward ho?
AFTER ITS civil war, the U.S. imported millions of immigrants and urged them to colonise the country's west, which it saw as a vast but untapped reservoir of wealth (much to the consternation of its indigenous occupants). - John Rapley
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