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Cost Of the State leviathan

Sunday, 21 August 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

The electorates in developing countries want fast economic growth; nothing can get much better without growth....

Horror Stories of the skies

Sunday, 21 August 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

What must it be like to lose an entire part of your family – your son, his wife and their children; your sister, her husband and their children – in one fell swoop? ...

Two Men and a church

Sunday, 21 August 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

The two Maltese Catholic Bishops issued their routine Santa Maria pastoral letter. It was an event with little intrinsic news value. And the value hardly increases if one turns to its contents. ...

Why Spaghetti breaks into many pieces

Sunday, 21 August 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

Are you the one at home who throws the too long spaghetti into the too small pot of boiling water...

The Branding of Gozo

Sunday, 21 August 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

On Saturday 13 August, an educational walk around Ta’ Cenc was organised by the Ceratonia Foundation...

Festering Sore

Saturday, 20 August 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

For yet another time, local bus owners have been facing the government, eyeball to eyeball, over claims for more subsidies. Singing from a worn-out hymn-sheet, the Public Transport ...

Taking Appropriate measures

Friday, 19 August 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

In the pre-budget document A Better Quality Of Life, presented by Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi as head of government two weeks ago, one of the points that seems to have ...

Friday Wisdom: Selling Castille

Friday, 19 August 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

There are four ways by which the national debt could be brought down from the current 72 per cent of GDP to under 60 per cent, or at least firmly pointing south in that direction, in order to gain the ...

Chopper Squad

Thursday, 18 August 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

Yesterday morning, I heard on the radio a Super One commentator who was ranting about the cost of buying a return ticket for a helicopter flight to Gozo. The way he was going on, ...

Gaza Pull-out opponents intensify resistance

Wednesday, 17 August 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip: The Jewish settlements of Gaza, a focus of deadly Israeli-Palestinian contention for decades, were thin...

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