Opinion

Enlightenment

So now we know. The Office of the President is not in need of enlightenment – or more accurately “enlightenments” – from anyone outside the boundaries of the Co-operative Republic’s 83,000 square miles.

A ‘President’ Obama would have his work cut out

Dear Editor, In response to VO Patrick’s letter, ‘The prelude to the end game,’ (SN, 5.6.08), I share the writer’s sentiments regarding the history-making achievement by an African American, Mr Barack Obama, in the long and sometimes tense fight with Mrs Hillary Clinton for the just concluded Democratic race for the nominee in this year’s US presidential race.

Food fight

The world, it seems, is down on its luck. As the global food crisis threatens to get worse and the price of oil soars almost daily, leaders haggled on Thursday over the wording of a document proposing actions to deal with hunger.

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