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Sunday, 29 October 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Complete Annihilation of Countries ™ is a popular game played mainly by infantile Presidents and Prime Ministers aged 48 and upwards. As the name suggests, it involves arbitrarily invading, occupying and eventually...

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Sunday, 29 October 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

I doubt whether there would have been such neighbourly solidarity, even within the minuscule community of Gozo, with the Rev. Anthony Mercieca had he not been a priest. ...

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Sunday, 29 October 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Irrespective of one’s political orientation, local politicians seem to share a common ground on at least one issue as the budget debate rumbles on in Parliament: they agree that Malta’s structural deficit and mounting debt call for...

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Sunday, 29 October 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Are you middle class or do you think you are? Do others think you are... middle class that is? Do the political classes, their leaders, and the media and its editors think you are? ...

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Sunday, 29 October 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Christians’ unwillingness to be open about their beliefs could become the modern equivalent of a catacomb...

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Sunday, 29 October 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Fr Anthony Mercieca, the priest at the centre of the Mark Foley storm, told American reporters that he had been naked in a sauna with 13-year-old Foley, massaged him, gone skinny-dipping with him, ...

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Saturday, 28 October 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Changing a currency cannot but cause concern regarding the manner in which bank accounts and other financial investments will be converted to euro. At present, conversion of ...

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Saturday, 28 October 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In his book on Man and the State, Jacques Maritain was of the firm opinion that “the end, for democracy, is both justice and freedom”....

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Friday, 27 October 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The Opposition Leader’s reply to the 2007 budget speech last Wednesday was far from being cool and relaxed...

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Friday, 27 October 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In his famous poem Auguries of Innocence, William Blake makes a stark observation. ...

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