Keywords: French Revolution
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INTERNATIONAL
- 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
- Delia Falconer
- 06 July 2006
Are we writing too many of them? Is there a crisis of relevance in Austlit? No, argues Delia Falconer.
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RELIGION
- James McEvoy
- 19 June 2006
Forty years into the journey, commentators debate whether the Council was overly optimistic about modernity. Did the heady days of the early ’60s influence the Council’s agenda to its detriment?
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INTERNATIONAL
- Jon Greenaway
- 15 June 2006
Boycotting global brands, Jon Greenaway puts Muslim colas to the (taste) test.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Hugh Dillon on Simone Weil and George Orwell
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kirsty Grant
- 07 June 2006
Kirsty Grant reveals a world of decadence in Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
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AUSTRALIA
In a knee-jerk of anti-terrorist fervour, the French Government seems to want religion to be totally private, walled in.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Troy Bramston
- 14 May 2006
Troy Bramston takes a closer look at America’s founding fathers in Gore Vidal’s Inventing a Nation: Washington, Jefferson, Adams.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 25 April 2006
How do people decide when to stop clapping after a performance? The progress of fads and fashions—in thought, opinion or consumer behaviour—can be described by one of the laws of magnetism.
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham
- 25 April 2006
For many years a pariah, the nation run by Colonel Mu’ammar Gaddafi has suddenly become the darling of the West
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham
- 23 April 2006
Niger’s descent to the world’s worst place to live has been paved with greed and good intentions
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 21 April 2006
Nha Hat Lon, as the Opera House is known locally, was, with its Napoleonic panache and grandeur, just the place for large gestures and significant announcements.
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