'Hurricane Barack' slams into GOP
On Thursday night, before an estimated 85,000 screaming fans, United States senator, Barack Obama, delivered his lethal acceptance speech before the Democratic National Convention, in what could be described as a Category Five hurricane which ripped into the GOP. (Boyne)
Trading human beings for cows
Hindus are often ridiculed in the West for treating cows as sacred. But the real tragedy is that the West has failed to treat people as sacred. It treats cows better than people. The French spend more money to subsidise cows than is spent on the incomes of half the world's population. (Buddan)
In the Caucasus, a fake cold war
It has been said that the only "lessons from history" are that there are none, that each generation forges its own fate anew. This might or might not be so, but if there is anything worse than ignoring history, it is to try imposing the wrong historical analogy on current events. (Heine)
Paternity and maternity: A sacred duality
In the Caribbean in general, and in Jamaica in particular, there is much discussion about the marginalisation of the male. The concept of this newly defined sociological dilemma is rooted in the fact that growing numbers of women and girls are, for the first time in the history of former slave societies, finding a way to get the requisite qualifications to find many semi-decent and a few good jobs. (Simms)
Beijing Games: treasure of character-building
Young Shelly-Ann Fraser, gold medallist in the women's 100m dash at the ancestral city of Beijing, grew up in the community that is broadly known as Olympic Gardens. She has become an Olympic champion, recording the second-fastest time ever to win that event at those Games. (A.J. Nicholson)
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