| Monday's Letters to the Editor
Eichenberg uses the term "class envy" to criticize Oden without the use of his own prerequisite for supporting facts. I agreed with most of Oden's suggestions on how to deal with economic distress during difficult times for Maine's low or fixed income residents. Individuals without a great amount of disposable income have the greatest problem in dealing with escalating fuel and medical costs. It is this segment of the population which requires assistance and Oden offers some short- and long-term solutions to the problem; i.e., encourage self-sufficiency by gaining independence. By implying that poor people do not work as hard as wealthy people, Eichenberg expresses a selective elitism which does not criticize the rich or well educated who have a distinct advantage over the poor and less educated.
When Camelot comes to Canberra
Well, maybe the summit will come up with something.
Rudds use of the phrase 'best and brightest' should make anyone with a sense of history nervous to say the least. It was made famous by the legendary American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam who used it, ironically, to describe the men who sat at the heart of JFKs Camelot (though it may originally have come from a poem by Shelley).
Kennedy, a generalist himself, wanted to be surrounded by men of unsurpassed expertise.
One of the 'best and brightest' recruited by Kennedy was Robert McNamara, a brilliant young manager from the Ford motor company. He was so good that he became the first President of the company from outside the Ford family. He was skilled at systems analysis and championed an approach to government policy which placed analysis and rationality above other considerations, like political ideals.
Australian dollar approaches to hit US93 cents
PSYCHOLOGICAL testing of potential employees to identify risk takers and stress addicts is the latest weapon in the war against workplace accidents.
Pressure: Disclosures shock ANZ bank investors Debt: PwC washes hands of Centro scandal Oron ore prices: BHP, Rio delivered windfall .
Hospitals add art to lift spirits
Art is transforming drab, lifeless health care and workplace spaces into healing environments filled with beauty, sophistication and joy, and the trend has brought national attention to leaders like the University of Michigan and Detroit Receiving Hospital. .
Fidel Castro hands over power
I believe that one has to be consistent right up to the end," Fidel Castro wrote in his resignation letter Tuesday, and he was. The world may long argue whether he was a communist or a social reformer, a mad tyrant or a visionary savior, but no one will ever doubt that he was a shrewd survivor who left power just as he ruled: on his own terms. Defying the expectations - and, in many cases, the hopes - of an eternally bemused world, Castro bowed out not a step or two ahead of an enemy tank or a mob of angry voters, but on a timetable of his own choice, handing Cuba over like a family heirloom to his little brother. He outlived the Soviet Union, the nation that inspired him, succored him and sometimes betrayed him. He outlasted nine U.S. administrations that tried, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, to topple him.
Healthy Packed Lunches
We've come up with a week's starter menu of healthy lunchbox ideas that every parent could try. With a little forward planning most of these meals could be made from store cupboard stock, or from the leftovers of family meals throughout the week. We're sure Jamie Oliver would approve! Monday Wholemeal pitta bread with hummous and chopped vegetables Low-fat yoghurt Cherry tomatoes Tip: For kids with a larger appetite - add some falafel to the lunchbox. It makes a great healthy snack. Tuesday Chicken drumstick with rice salad - fry up some finely chopped onions, mushrooms and tomatoes. Mix together with cooked rice and some salad dressing and serve with cold chicken - a drumstick is ideal Grapes Reduced fat crisps or other healthy snack Tip: Home-made bagel chips are very low-fat and delicious.
'I wanted to save an orphan from war and hunger. No one said I was ...
Why would you take on a child that wasn't yours, especially when it's handicapped?" locals scorned. She knew that taking in a black child would be even more difficult in what she called a rural climate of racism and small-mindedness. There are no black people in her village. But she felt the child would be better off in France. "I wanted to save an orphan from war and hunger. I wanted there to be one less child suffering in the world. None of us were doing anything wrong," she told the Guardian. Yesterday, seven French people from the association Zoe's Ark remained in detention in Chad, charged with abduction and fraud after they were stopped trying to fly 103 children out of the impoverished African country which borders Sudan's Darfur region. Two French journalists and seven Spanish crew members of the plane they had chartered were also being held.
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