When artifice becomes a fact
WRITING recently in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Susan J. Brison noted the ways in which the boundaries between artifice in this case, pornography and reality have become blurred in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. - John Rapley

Wanted: a reality cheque
HAVE YOU ever wondered about the process that trade unions utilise in arriving at the list of claims that are placed on the bargaining table? There is a theory that if you ask for the most outrageous salary increases... - Heather Robinson

Lessons of courage
SCORES OF athletes from across the island and their coaches crammed into the auditorium of the University of Technology last Friday for the torch-lighting ceremony to mark the start of the 21st National Summer Games. - Dennie Quill