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...Security, Stupid No matter what the issue - terrorism, immigration or flat wages and higher taxes - the code word this election season is "security...
...June 10, 2007, along the 400-mile Oodnadatta Track. Participants will ride across the seemingly endless plains of the South Australian Desert and skirt the vast expanse of Lake Eyre's salt flats. Although cattle are transported in trucks these days, and make it to market in a matter of hours, doing it the old way takes up to six weeks. But relax: only your guides - drawn from the ranks of Australia's last generation of drovers - will do the full stint. City slickers join for a piffling five days at a time, and the conditions are hardly onerous. Tents...
...After being alerted to the existence of the videos on Sept. 15, an ADF spokesman told Time that the force would investigate the matter. By late next afternoon, the military had tracked down the men responsible for posting the images. Time then began publishing stories about the trove of videos on our websites. Late on Saturday, Sept. 16, the images were removed from Youtube. The Chief of the Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, confirmed that the man who posted 14 of the videos had left the Army but said he could still face official action. The ADF will...
...secret that a vigorous social life can cut into a student’s academic performance. Scholars who spend their nights raucously reveling with members of the opposite sex (or, for that matter, the same sex) will not perform as well in the classroom the next morning. Instead they will find themselves (at 11 a.m. the following day) busy navigating the politics of evicting a semi-drunk stranger from their bed. Escaping from this brand of moral depravity has been historically challenging. Upon our return to school, however, a different perspective shed new light on an old problem: what...
...Fiona Shaw (Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter series), who plays Ramona Linscott, Swank’s mother, is spellbindingly theatrical and genuinely funny. I think she is supposed to be disturbing and seriously deranged and neither of these things are humorous, but no matter. I take entertainment where I can find...