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...experienced the same intense combination of fear and amusement that I did during a recent visit with Somaliland's minister of information. You probably haven't heard of Somaliland - it's a would-be country in the north-western bit of Somalia, a nation state that ceased to function as such a decade ago. But while the south has been torn apart by incessant violence ever since and is only now attempting to move beyond government by the ubiquitous warlords, Somaliland has forged a more peaceful path. It has created its own government, and issued currency and passports. Not that...
...magic bullet to end the violence, Peres can see the prospects of a renewed peace process slipping further beyond reach. That's prompted him to seek out Palestinian leaders for talks, although Sharon insisted that Peres be chaperoned in any discussion by one of Israel's top generals - whose function, presumably, is not simply to ensure the foreign minister's personal protection. Still, Palestinian leaders have dismissed talking to Peres as a waste of time, and in the present mood of outrage, that may not be simply posturing...
...British Veterinary Association, suggests a "gold standard" register for breeders who do test. For years Sweden's progressive Kennel Club, they note, has had compulsory health checks for some breeds. Britain's Kennel Club maintains that breeders must drive health initiatives forward, and that the club has no regulatory function but exists simply to keep a breed register. It worries that if it tried to force rules on breeders, they would leave the club. "We believe we have to persuade rather than mandate," says Sampson. There is also a financial consideration: breeders pay the club $14 for each...
...Granted, thus far, journalism on the web has not been stellar. Form follows function, and eventually, Internet journalism will shape itself to the nature of the Internet. Someday, every online journalist will use the syntax of html and flash right alongside her colorful lede...
...that the slavering media are instruments in a larger sociobiology that replicates, on a national (or even international) scale, the gossip dynamics of a village? Gossip - however vicious, obsessive, and intrusive - has always served an important community function. The stories work as parables, forms of instruction, universal metaphors. (What, God help us, does the parable of O.J. Simpson instruct our children about justice...