For women: The best and worst of times
IT IS the best of times for some women. Increasingly, women are getting more opportunities to hone and display their decision-making skills at the top, where it counts most. But it is the worst of times for women and... - Beverly Anderson-Manley

The tail of the peacock
ONE OF the strangest paradoxes in the history of the human race is that while men have commonly dominated by virtue of their greater strength and aggression, women time and time again have been the cause of their downfall and defeat. - Ian McDonald

Balls to go
"FIVE balls to go," intoned the BWIA flight attendant. She spoke with confidence, with the precise, almost schoolmarmish voice that had earlier instructed us to fasten our seatbelts and to read our overcomplicated immigration...- Stephen Vasciannie