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On Tuesday night, the Miami Heat beat the Dallas Mavericks and became only the third team in NBA Finals history to come back from a 0-2 deficit to win a 7-game series 4-2. But, given the competitive nature of each game and the attendant controversies this incited, this Heat comeback was arguably the most exciting… Read more.
Dan Rather – as he appeared in the fall of 2004 – reporting the bogus story about President Bush’s military service that sealed his professional fate…On 9 March 2005, I published this homage to Dan Rather’s ignominious comeuppance after his colleagues and bosses at CBS finally did to him what he had done to Walter… Read more.
He is accused of funding Sierra Leone’s former rebels, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) by selling diamonds on their behalf and buying weapons for them….The RUF were notorious for mutilating civilians, by hacking off their arms or legs with machetes. [BBC News Africa] Yesterday, pursuant to an enlightened UN resolution drafted by Britain, former Liberian… Read more.
Charlie Rose is my favorite TV interviewer. He appeared on Larry King Live last night to share details about the health crisis that kept him confined to a hospital bed for four weeks (and then to his home for an additional five). However, a week ago today, as I was confined to my own sick-bed,… Read more.
Because of political rivalries amongst national governments that surpass sports rivalries amongst national teams, Germany caved to pressure from fellow EU member states and denied Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a visa to attend the World Cup. (Ahmadinejad has been declared persona non grata for, inter alia, vowing that Israel should be wiped off the map… Read more.
After everything, you’d think they would finally get their priorities just right…not more right wing! Read more.
Dear Readers I appreciate that – according to my webmaster – 99% of you do not attempt to post comments to my articles, which I choose to regard as a tacit form of unqualified support. But for the 1% of you who do, I apologise unreservedly for the technical difficulties that have made it virtually… Read more.
It’s not often that reports and commentaries on a major news event are so comprehensive that they render my thoughts (almost) redundant. But such is the case with yesterday’s news that American forces have finally killed al-Qaeda’s master-terrorist in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Clearly this is good news – if only for the psychological shot… Read more.
By popular demand, here she is! But click here for my original article on this “momentous” event…. Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, baby pictures, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt Read more.
On 26 January 2006, I published an article criticizing Google for leaving its (self-proclaimed) enlightened corporate conscience back in America as a precondition for entering the Chinese market. Back then I wrote, in part, that: Just days ago, I praised Google (as others had) for standing alone amongst major technology companies in defying the Bush… Read more.
