B92 - Insight - Viewpoint - Ivica Ra?an - a force of change (B92)
Ivica Ra?an's death due to cancer on April 29 brought an end to a remarkable political career, filled with ups and downs that significantly helped to shape - positively - the future of Croatia....more...Trudeau focuses on youth (St. Marys Journal Argus)
Despite recent public forays into high-profile national controversies, and his own newly-achieved status as a federal Liberal nominee, Justin Trudeau stuck mainly to topics of environmentalism and youth engagement during his afternoon-long participation in a school board-sponsored event Saturday in Mitchell....more... David Walker: Huge divide in joined-up departments (Guardian Unlimited)
Bureaucrats, they say, want to maximise their empires, so the Home Office permanent secretary, Sir David Normington, ought to be a chastened man, sasy David Walker....more... Self-censorship is still part of the job (Mail and Guardian)
When Pulitzer Prize-winner Peter Arnett was reporting from the front line of the Vietnam War, the last thing he had to worry about was censorship, but that's not the case for the Chinese journalism students who are hanging on his every word....more... 'Unsung' Freedom Riders of '61 Tell Stories (Washington Post)
In spring 1961, Dion Diamond was a physics major at Howard University and Reginald M. Green was preparing for the ministry at Virginia Union University in Richmond. ...more... For Chinese journalists, self-censorship ensures the news is good (AFP via Yahoo! News)
When Pulitzer prize winner Peter Arnett was reporting from the frontline of the Vietnam war, the last thing he had to worry about was censorship, but that's not the case for the Chinese journalism students who are hanging on his every word....more... Russia, Bulgaria eye closer energy ties (UPI)
Closer relations with Russia are being spurred by increased energy cooperation, Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev said Monday....more... Reid will quit to make way for the Brown first team (Evening Standard)
John Reid has thrown in the towel on his political career leaving the way clear for Gordon Brown to be crowned Labour leader and bring his own top team in with him....more... Not quite Ronald Reagan (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News)
With your surname and your school marks, you will never succeed in France. Those were the words of Nicolas Sarkozy s father, a Hungarian aristocrat who had settled in France after World War II to flee Communism, and who abandoned his family when his son was just five. On Sunday evening, the son proved the father wrong by becoming France s most powerful man, its Fifth Republic s sixth president. ......more... |