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...governments since Independence in 1975, only six have been elected. Five won power through no-confidence votes or the threat of them; none has lasted a full five-year term. "Abusing the 18-month grace period is like a disease in P.N.G. politics," says Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare. "Those who feel they've missed out always try to maneuver and manipulate others to get something better." In recent weeks, the tides of plot and counter-plot have swept Cabinet ministers into Opposition and Opposition members into government, and raised doubts over who rightly holds the posts of Speaker...
...takes them for a ride on his motorbike - the boys cherish Hector. He has given them the vocation, the job and the joy of "breaking bread with the dead"; to be infused by the culture handed down to them. "Mr. Hector's stuff's not meant for the exam, sir," one of the boys tells Irwin. "It's to make us more rounded human beings." Put that way, it sounds wet. But Bennett wants us to consider what we learn and why we learn it. He believes that millennia of poetry, plays, history can be as fulfilling as everything...
...tray of leftovers. Suddenly, it struck her that it’d be quite lovely of her to offer some scraps to the numerous homeless people she mindlessly steps over daily. Dazzled by her own benevolence, my dear friend eagerly approached the nearest vagabond and inquired: “Sir, would you like one of these sandwiches?” The man sneered, and shot back: “I only accept money.” Appalled, my friend walked to a dumpster—undoubtedly disregarding several other dispossessed—to make a sizeable deposit of untouched food...
...elegant and modest 11th Duke of Devonshire, who held on to his ancestors' grand lifestyle by turning the 16th century Chatsworth estate owned by his family for 14 generations into one of Britain's most popular tourist attractions; in Derbyshire, England. Thought to be wealthier than the Queen, Sir Andrew paid off $20 million in inheritance taxes by selling tens of thousands of acres of land and art from his large collection to set up a trust that financed his mansion's maintenance...
...DIED. CLEMENT (SIR COXSONE) DODD, 72, pioneering Jamaican music producer who launched the influential Studio One and was the first person to record Bob Marley and the Wailers; in Kingston, Jamaica. In the 1950s, he operated some of the most popular "sound systems"?makeshift turntable and speaker sets that played dance records for partygoers?which helped lay the foundation for hip-hop and DJ culture...