In the telling of their story there is also the opportunity, indeed the need, to discuss the wider issues thrown up by this short chapter on the history of suffering in a country like Sierra Leone. That discussion in part concerns our response to the demands of international peacekeeping in strife-torn regions across Africa and in the wider, conflict-torn world.

We need to be happy in this wonderland without once being merely comfortable.

The economics of a global economy demand a change in the way we think of managing the resources of the very globe this economy rests upon.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is the head that splits.

Quaint french restaurant in Beverly Hills with some cheap not so good eats but worthy crepes.

CinemaNow supplying content faster than now to everything including mouses?

for the kid who's family was hurt or injured during this war, the concepts of democracy, WMD's etc are far to high-minded, all he/she knows is death has rained down in a greater way since the USA has been in Iraq than before

It proves the fallacy of thinking in relative terms. It is an adjustment; it is a very different world than a single super power where most of the innovation is coming from one place.

With the U.S. tied up in Iraq, and the general opinion being against the White Houses ill-conceived policies hopefully the message will be clear that there is no great Axis of Evil in existence.