John Bolton, President George Bush’s nominee as the next United States ambassador to the United Nations, was accused on Monday of seeking to dismiss government intelligence analysts he thought were not hawkish enough on Cuba. The allegations were presented by Senate Democrats who are hoping to block Bolton’s nomination.
United States President George Bush on Monday delivered an unusually stern public warning to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon against plans to expand Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank. ”I told the prime minister of my concern that Israel not undertake any activity that contravenes road map obligations or prejudices final status negotiations,” Bush told reporters.
Andrea Dworkin, the radical feminist activist and writer best known for her campaigns against pornography and her love of outsized dungarees, has died at her home in Washington DC. The author of more than 13 works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, Dworkin died peacefully in her sleep early on Saturday morning after a long battle with illness.
As he ponders the future of the free world, the fate of social security or the state of the brush on his Crawford ranch, President George Bush can turn to one source for solace: his iPod. The Bush iPod contains just 250 songs, from Joni Mitchell’s (You’re So Square) Baby, I Don’t Care to the straight ahead country blues of Stevie Ray Vaughn’s The House Is Rockin’.
The mother of a boy who reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with Michael Jackson in the 1990s told on Monday how the singer was ”sobbing and crying, shaking and trembling” when she said he could not share her son’s bed. ”He said, ‘You don’t trust me? We’re a family… [The boy] is having fun.”’
The field of health care is not all about doctors and nurses in white lab coats. These days, there are many career options aimed at maintaining and improving peoples general well-being.
The Dominican Convent in Belgravia, Johannesburg, embraces many of the values and traditions of the Catholic Church. But it also recognises that learners must face the facts of life head-on – including sex and the real threat of HIV.
Lovemore Madhuku is a political commentator and head of the National Constitutional Assembly, a coalition of civil society groups agitating for constitutional reform in Zimbabwe. He suggested that the opposition boycott the elections. He did not cast his vote. Two weeks ago, he was detained briefly for making "unsubstantiated allegations" against the government. He talks to us.
The name "Witwatersrand" has come to haunt the people who live along this ridge — the source of so much wealth from gold and other minerals. But with many mines nearing the end of their productive lives or already closed, the water table is recovering after being driven down by decades of pumping water out of mineshafts. But with it come rising levels of polluted water, threatening to drown the Cradle of Mankind.
Some friends advised me not to respond to Malegapuru Makgoba — "it is not a good idea for a white male to reply". But if a white male academic steeped in African National Congress and Congress of South African Trade Union tenets cannot, then why fight for non-racialism in the first place, writes Mike Morris. There is no one-size-fits-all definition of what constitutes an African, but we shouldn’t be afraid to talk about such issues.