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/ 15 September 2005
In a country where plaster Madonnas weep blood, it is only to be expected that the supernatural should be on everyone’s minds. But even miracle-hardened Italians have been taken aback by the affair of the medium and the body in the lake. The body was found in her car in Lake Como in precisely the area indicated by a medium.
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/ 15 September 2005
As a leading Taliban commander — so senior he once dined with Osama bin Laden — Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi was famed for his ability to annihilate enemies with a carefully aimed missile. Hence his name. But now he is a candidate in next Sunday’s Afghan parliamentary election.
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/ 15 September 2005
More than 100 of the world’s largest companies have been accused of not facing up to global warming after they snubbed a global survey of corporate attitudes to climate change. Boeing, computer giant Apple, online retailer Amazon and News Corporation are among the organisations that failed to respond to the survey.
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/ 15 September 2005
The United States administration has embarked on a series of face-to-face meetings with world leaders at the United Nations World Summit to try to isolate Iran diplomatically over Iran’s push to expand its nuclear programme. In support of Bush’s diplomatic drive, US officials have delivered hour-long PowerPoint briefings.
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/ 15 September 2005
For a United Nations official to discuss reform of the international system is rather like an Englishman talking about the weather: it is a staple of daily conversation, but it always seems that real change remains just over the horizon. On Wednesday, 166 heads of state and government gathered in New York for a summit that we hope will take the reform process a major step forward.
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/ 15 September 2005
It is hard to know what to make of this week’s Cabinet statement affirming the executive’s duty to answer parliamentary questions, while simultaneously hinting that certain questions are unreasonable and a waste of the government’s time. One would like to think that Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s appointment to probe the matter is a positive development.
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/ 15 September 2005
According to Dorsbult’s new konstabel, Tiger Brands Mswati, the South African Police Service is taking civic awareness and service delivery very seriously. Which must be why this week the Visdorp Fuzz sent a very helpful and considerate heads-up to all criminals in the Mitchells Plain area, disguised as an official statement for the community.
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/ 15 September 2005
It was Jim Hoagland, the Washington Post‘s liberal hawk par excellence, who first pondered the possible foreign policy consequences of Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of New Orleans. ”Will post-Katrina America,” he asked in his regular column, ”be humbler, more cooperative and more understanding of other nations’ problems and failures?”
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/ 14 September 2005
Condoms everywhere, the stink of latex … thousands of them rolling off the machines like sausages. From its nondescript factory south of Johannesburg, Latex Surgical Products makes about 200Â 000 condoms every day. Jeffery Hurwitz, the factory’s MD, showed the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> the ins and outs of making a condom.