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...What is your opinion of the current Middle East situation? -Antony Mylonas, Perth, Australia Since President Clinton left office, there hasn't been a single day of good-faith peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians orchestrated or supported by Washington...
...some of the more vulgar student cheers, including “Brown is poop, poop is brown.” “It is stupid,” Keegan said. “We have to leave at halftime. It makes no sense.” For Australia native Yoo Kyeung “Anna” Kim ’11, the unusually boisterous arena marked her first college football experience. “The only football coverage that I get is from movies, so it’s kind of like that,” she said...
...rivers also come up frequently in the poetry of Harry "Breaker" Morant. One of his best-known verses is At the River Crossing. Henry Lawson was another poet who wrote a lot about rivers. A stanza from his Song of the Darling River could apply to most of Australia's rivers. "I drown dry gullies and lave bare hills,/ I turn drought ruts into rippling rills./ I form fair islands and glades all green/ Till every bend is a sylvan scene." Rob Arthur, Melbourne...
...very much enjoyed Elizabeth Keenan's account of the extraordinary Finke river race in central Australia, and the certifiably crazy people who take part in it. I was intrigued, however, by the geologists' reference to the Finke as the "oldest river on earth." I am no hydrographer, but I have always thought one of the defining qualities of a river is water. Given that the Finke is almost permanently empty, shouldn't it be known as the oldest groove on earth? Anthony Connell, Sydney...
...sixth of seven children, Wong was born during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore and had to leave school to work. "I will never forget that I was hungry for many years," says Wong, who these days maintains homes in Hong Kong and Singapore and on Australia's Gold Coast. A stint behind the counter at Elizabeth Arden led to 25 years in the beauty business, culminating in a job working for Este Lauder as regional sales and marketing director for Asia. A haphazard search for wide shoes led Wong to Ferragamo and eventually into fashion. Soon...