Editorial - For peace on earth...
DESPITE THE debt "bombshell" here at home and the war clouds gathering in the Middle East, Christmas takes centre stage this week. As usual this ancient religious festival will wear secular trappings of feasting and merry-making...
Making Omar more unpopular
STANLEY FISHER, the famous managing director of the International Monetary Fund (now a senior officer of Goldman Sachs) in his retirement speech named Omar Davies one of the top 10 Finance Ministers in the world. (Robotham)
The 'paganisation' of Xmas
RECENTLY THERE arose a great furore in Florida because a substitute school teacher told her students that there is no Santa Claus. Enraged parents sought her dismissal. (Rattray)
A name is a name
THERE IS a view among some persons that young people are not as attached to the church as their parents were. Judging from what I have heard and been observing, however, it is that the young are leaving the traditional churches...(Neita)
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