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international / environment / news report Thursday October 19, 2006 19:41 by Qasim Rajpar
Speakers at a conference criticized the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) for their eager interest in mega projects and alleged that these institutions were more involved in usurping resources of the country instead of its development. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday October 19, 2006 17:57 by Movie Fan
Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers" does a most difficult and brave thing and does it brilliantly. It is a movie about a concept. Not just any concept but the shop-worn and often wrong-headed idea of "heroism." The movie performs this task amid the fog of war on Iwo Jima in 1945, when the Associated Press' Joe Rosenthal took the iconic photograph of six American servicemen raising Old Glory on Mount Suribachi. The movie deconstructs that moment, shattering it into a jigsaw puzzle of flashbacks and flash-forwards, to explore how that photograph turned into a major prop of the U.S. government's war bonds campaign and how the government designated the three surviving flag raisers as "heroes." read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Thursday October 19, 2006 15:35 by down with Monsanto
David McConnell, a molecular geneticist, is Professor of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin. He is head of the Irish Times Trust , the owner of the Irish Times. He also happens to be Co-Chair of the biotech lobby group EAGLES – European Action on Global Life Sciences (www.efb-eagles.org), which is funded by the European Federation of Biotechnology. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday October 19, 2006 14:33 by Harry Rea
In May of this year a father of four was jailed for two weeks for contempt of orders made in family law proceedings brought by his wife in the Circuit Court. His habeas corpus application was successful after Justice Smith in the High Court commented that the manner in which he was jailed contained "worrying features". He was freed on condition that he initiate Judicial Review proceedings to resolve the important issues raised. read full story / add a comment |
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