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God Has nothing to do with it

Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

A fireworks factory blows up, killing two men and critically injuring others, one of who is severely burned, and everyone speaks as though it were an act of God. ...

Deaf To defeat

Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

When someone passed the plain brown envelope to me in the dead of night, I could not wait to get home to open it and read what was in it. Walking at a brisk pace, my mind was teeming with ...

Here We go – golfing again...

Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

As I still spend every Thursday evening in summer playing soccer with a group of friends – mostly in my age bracket – who have been at it for more than 30 ...

The Shape of things to come

Saturday, 9 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The recent French Revolution and the Revolt of the Dutch, on the occasion of two separate referenda, amounted to a wake-up call by the polis, in each case the disenchanted electorate....

A Yes vote – with a vengeance

Friday, 8 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Last Wednesday night, Malta’s Parliament elected to vote unanimously in favour of the Treaty which is to establish a Constitution for Europe....

Making History

Friday, 8 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Live concerts, wrist bands, t-shirts and other memorabilia work wonders to temporarily spike the world’s attention to the problem of poverty in Africa. Unfortunately, they count for little by way of making a lasting ...

A High price to pay for a car

Thursday, 7 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The Health Promotion Department is to request the government to place an immediate ban on the billboard advertising of cigarettes. ...

Daphne’s Grand call to inaction

Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

While reading her piece Eight fallacies, (TMID 30 June), it seems to me most probable that Mrs Caruana Galizia never took an economics elective in her university days....

Let’s Hit the ground running

Tuesday, 5 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

After months of soul-searching and navel-gazing about the European Constitutional treaty, the Labour Party has finally taken a clear cut and decisive stand which should be reflected in the positive but qualified vote in Parliament tomorrow....

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