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Commentary

Skyscrapers as tombs
ONE OF the famous features of New York City is the Manhattan skyline. The 110-storey twin towers of the World Trade Center were the tallest of its famous skyscrapers, having replaced the Empire State Building in that regard. But now those towers have...

Unjustifiable, unspeakable and unforgivable

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, to a much greater extent than December 7, 1941, is a date that will live in infamy. On that day, terrorists launched an attack of unbridled brutality on humanity, showing the most callous disregard... - Stephen Vasciannie

The dawn of a new They

PRESIDENT JOHN Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) had been warned that Dallas was like a lunatic asylum, pure nut country. According to Great American Anecdotes by John and Clair Whitcomb, "It was the kind of place where newspapers ran... - Tony Deyal

The surrealism surrounding poverty

THERE IS an ancient saying, I think from Nigeria: "Poverty is madness." It explains a lot which seems inexplicable in our world today. Poverty indeed is madness ­ and not only in the sense of madmen and madwomen roaming the... - Ian McDonald

Weep! Weep with our American colleagues!

I KNOW THAT the hearts of all well-thinking Jamaican journalists go out to our colleagues, and indeed to all Americans, as they grapple with that heinous and dreadfully wicked act by people whose hearts are colder than ice. - Desmond Allen












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