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Editor’s Notes
Wisdom in the Court
of Judge
Harold Wright
To solve a case Judge Wright tells the fable
of a
father, a girl, and a wicked money lender
Judge Wright had in his court a couple who had come to him to settle a
dispute. They had given up on arguments and had decided on divorce unless a
solution could be found. In response Judge Wright told the following
fable: — 571 words.
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Judge who sentenced
Saddam
to death is living in exile
A British news report says that the Iraqi judge who sentenced former
President Saddam Hussein to death has applied for asylum in London. — 137
words.
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An Argentine novelist
writes:
‘What we see in Hugo Chávez’
BUENOS AIRES — fervent welcome that greeted President Hugo Chávez of
Venezuela during his visit to Argentina a week ago was inexplicable to some
Argentines and left others indignant. Many here tend to mistrust populism and
demagoguery, finding them redolent of Peronism. But even among the wary, a
window of hope has opened, with Mr. Chávez as its symbol. — 952
words.
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Scotiabank looking for ‘growth
opportunities’
eyes buying a minority stake in Chinese
bank
TORONTO — Scotiabank says that it wants to forge a strategic partnership with
Bank of Dalian Co. Ltd., China's seventh-largest commercial bank, by way of a
minority investment. — 210 words.
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CIA officer says he hopes
Norman Mailer is right
in saying America has entered a pre-fascist
state
‘Closing the Gap Between Torturer and Victim’
In Andrew Cockburn’s new book, Rumsfeld, the gap between rampant power and
its faraway victims is closed. Donald Rumsfeld, US secretary of defence until
last year and a designer of the Iraq bloodbath, is revealed as personally
directing from his office in the Pentagon the torture of fellow human beings,
exploiting “individual phobias, such as fear of dogs, to induce stress” and use
of “a wet towel and dripping water to induce the misperception of
suffocation”. — 725 words.
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Napoleon, the Jews
and
French Muslims
PARIS — Not all stories from the past have relevance today. But here is one
not very well-known story about the Jews in Napoleonic France that has much
relevance to French Muslims in our own time. — 814 words.
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Countries in Russian and U.S.
spheres of influence
increasingly chafe under disintegrating
yokes
The end last week of US President George Bush's tour of South America was
marked by gleeful reporting in the Russian press of the anti-American
demonstrations that dogged Mr. Bush's footsteps throughout his trip and the
false notes struck by America's policy in relation to its southern neighbor. In
truth, however, the relationship between the US and Latin America is remarkably
reminiscent of the relationship between Russia and the CIS. — 1,721
words
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True North Canuck Fact of the Day
First Canadian gold medal won under the Stars and
Stripes
And the gold medal goes to Canada, er,
uh, the U.S. Canada’s first Olympic gold medal ever was won by a man
competing for the United States. George Orton of Strathroy, Ont. took
first place in the steeplechase at the 1900 Olympics in Paris, but because
Canada didn’t have an official team he entered as part of the American team
instead.
Trivia compiled by Randy Ray and Mark Kearney. Visit their Web site
at: www.triviaguys.com
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Harold Wright, True North's Doctor of Punology, says,
“I was wondering why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it
hit me.”
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