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Is Gianfranco Finished?

Wednesday, 29 December 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The latest political events prove that politics in Italy are the total opposite of dull and boring. In a country where marriage is never viewed as a forever affair, this ...

Certifications And company doctors

Wednesday, 29 December 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In response to a letter appearing on 17 December in reply to my article on the pitfalls of company doctors, I would refrain from responding word for word so as not to create unnecessary debate, as I feel that Jean Karl Soler, being an occupational ...

The Fallen heroes of the financial crisis

Tuesday, 28 December 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Oscar Wilde said that experience is the name we give to our mistakes. Last year, we tried to analyse the errors that led the world into economic crisis. Now it is time to analyse the mistakes we made when trying to get out of it...

Book Wise and ‘wise’ books

Tuesday, 28 December 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Being almost literally on the eve of a New Year in which political ‘battle lines’ will surely be drawn and gate-keeping, spin doctoring and rampant damage control exercises will ...

The Making of international monetary reform

Monday, 27 December 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The run-up to the G-20’s summit in Seoul was marred by a series of currency controversies, bringing international monetary reform to the fore...

O Holy Time!

Friday, 24 December 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

St Paul’s letter to the Galatians enunciates that Christmas time is holy. “But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under ...

When Christmas Took over from the trenches

Friday, 24 December 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Christmas eve 1914. Two great armies, the British and the Germans, were facing each other, in the mud-logged trenches of the Somme in Flanders. A little before, they were sniping bullets at...

The Risk tsunami

Thursday, 23 December 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Instead, the G-20 is behaving like a debating society, with the cooperative approach that it fostered at the outset of the crisis devolving into an array of often-heedless unilateral actions by its members....

Children And charity

Thursday, 23 December 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

This is not because it is the Catholic Church. It could well be any other religion for all I care...

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