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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Undeclared war on Haiti's poor

    • Kent Rosenthal
    • 10 July 2006
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    Living conditions in Ouanaminthe, a ‘town’ of around 100,000 inhabitants amount to an undeclared war on the poor. There’s a lack of services, which makes Ouanaminthe a gathering place for human traffickers, smugglers and corrupt authorities ready to profit from people desperate to leave for the Dominican Republic.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Occasional harmonies

    • Gerard Windsor
    • 04 July 2006

    Gerard Windsor in Sicily.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Agreeing on something

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 04 July 2006

    Andrew Hamilton surveys four books on power and the Catholic Church.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Wintry conscience

    • Edmund Campion
    • 01 July 2006

    George Orwell’s take on language has an increasing contemporary relevance

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    With blinds pulled down

    • Peter Porter
    • 18 June 2006

    Poem by Peter Porter

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  • RELIGION

    Dark visions

    • Michael Magnusson
    • 22 May 2006

    Michael Magnusson and Caravaggio.

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  • RELIGION

    Soaring angels

    • Anna Griffiths
    • 22 May 2006

    Anna Griffiths marvels at the beauty of Los Angeles’ Our Lady Queen of the Angels Cathedral.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Mentoring Australia

    • Fatima Measham
    • 11 May 2006
    1 Comment

    Fatima Measham interviews David White, founder of Big Brothers Big Sisters Australia.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Plus ça change

    • Brian Matthews
    • 29 April 2006

    When February dawned last year, I had been living in a small Provençal village for about a month.

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  • RELIGION

    The comforting word

    • Gillian Bouras
    • 29 April 2006

    In extremis, we seek what we know, or something very close to it.

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  • MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD

    The book or the world?

    • Sarah Kanowski
    • 23 April 2006

    Margaret Dooley Award Winner, 2005: Sarah Kanowski argues that reading is a moral practice.  

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  • RELIGION

    Mystery of the monastère

    • Isabel Huggan
    • 20 April 2006

    Four days in a French convent were not enough to satisfy the curiosity of this writer.  

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