BY RON BAKER
National conferences are usually the domain of well-established organisations with various reasons to hold a gathering of the faithful. Little on the agenda and a lot on the bill seems to be a common outcome.
Conferences claiming to
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A group of scientists (well, they claim to be scientists) from an organisation called The Second Coming Project are planning to bring back Jesus by cloning him.
Their stupendously spooky plan involves taking a cell from a "Holy Relic of Jesus'
Last week, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency was appointed chairperson of a "trilateral commission" to save the Middle East "peace process". While the appointment is apparently acceptable to both Palestine Authority head Yasser Arafat
BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — Plans are under way here for what is hoped will be the largest and most spirited Green Left Weekly dinner that this city has seen for years. The November 18 event, dubbed "N18", will celebrate recent mass protests in
Fiji's military-backed interim administration plans to impose draconian new laws to counter the Fiji trade union movement's appeals for international solidarity for the democracy struggle. The regime, placed in power by the military during the coup
BY MAD COW
Imagine for a moment being a cow with many years of loyal service, owned by a tough but fair owner. Then the farmer unfortunately passes away. The ownership of the farm is then passed over to the son who looks at the farm and says, "We
JOHANNESBURG — As part of the global protests to coincide with the September 26 (S26) protests in Prague against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, more than 300 activists from numerous South African political and community
Competition, heart of the market
Corel is a Canadian company that produces software for the publishing
industry. Some of its products, such as CorelDraw and Ventura (a product
it bought rather than invented), are among the best in the
PRAGUE — In the city of Kafka, hundreds of international visitors have been left wondering about the precise name of their crime, after the Czech police began a policy of random arrest following the global day of action against the World Bank and
BY SEAN HEALY
There were no major announcements, no new policy initiatives, all the drama was outside with the protesters, and the meetings finished a full day early. Nevertheless, when the annual meetings of the World Bank and International
Ginsberg: A BiographyBy Barry MilesVirgin, 2000627 pp., $24.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
He "ruined a great many young people" with his 1956 poem, "Howl", with its "glorification of madness, drugs and homosexuality, and its contempt and hatred
So advanced is Cuba's national health system, in spite of the strictures of poverty and a US economic embargo, that a child born there will live a longer healthy life than a poor child born in the world's richest country. Even a nation as wealthy as
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