With the murder of its respected Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar fresh on its mind, the Sri Lankan administration of President Chandrika Kumaratunga is clearly wary of fresh talks with Tamil Tiger
JEDDAH, 26 August 2005 — THE announcement this week by anti-jueteng campaigner Archbishop Oscar Cruz that the Arroyo administration is planning to replace the illegal jueteng numbers game with a legal
There is considerably more to this particular Lebanese problem than meets the eye. Events there often serve as indicators to developments not only in the Middle East, but in the entire region extending
The Arab world is facing critical challenges in Iraq and Palestine. Passivity will not do, nor will merely blaming others, even if they justly deserve blame for having created these crises in the
If you want to know what London was like in 1905, come to Washington in 2005. Imperial gravitas and massive self-importance. That sense of being the center of the world, and of needing to know what
SO, just when you thought British politics was becoming terminally boring, he’s back. One of the few identifiable characters, that man in the pork-pie hat, the jazz-loving, brothel creeper-wearing,
The next American presidential election will not be held until November 2008, but the races for the Republican and Democratic nominations are underway. Three years out may seem distant to the casual
