Reality bites
MAKING LOVE LAST: How couples use illusion to maintain a happy marriage
page one headline for a Bettina Arndt article in the October 28-29
Sydney
Morning Herald.
Self-made millionaire
The man behind Australia's tallest building, construction magnate Bruno
Grollo, was uneducated, unsophisticated, had difficulty reading and writing
and relied almost entirely on his advisers, a court heard today. the
November 1
Financial Review's account of Grollo's defence counsel's
remarks to the Victorian Supreme Court. The Grollo brothers are charged
with conspiring to defraud the federal government of tax on $25 million
of profit.
Food-in-mouth
I know how hard it is to put food on your family. US presidential candidate
George W. Bush.
But what a pension plan!
It's a job of high insecurity.
Australian Financial Review editor
Michelle Grattan in her just-published book
Australian Prime Ministers.
The 'feminist' candidate
'Well, I don't know what the circumstances would be in that situation.
I would, you know, it's an interesting fact situation. I'd want to think
about it. US Vice-President Al Gore responding to a reporter's question
as to whether he supported a federal law that bars the execution of a pregnant
woman.