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...Reading your stories about rivers, I was struck by how big a role rivers have played in Australian literature. Kate Grenville's The Secret River, on which Michael Fitzgerald based his visit to the Hawkesbury, is only the latest work to refer to rivers. Your editor's letter was right in suggesting that the dryness of so much of the continent gives rivers a special significance. Every Australian knows Banjo Paterson's The Man From Snowy River, but rivers also come up frequently in the poetry of Harry "Breaker" Morant. One of his best-known verses is At the River...
...dive headfirst into the insular fashion world, solicit advice and have people root for his success. He isn't simply a hands-off leader with a big bank account. He's a likable businessman with an artsy streak?a trait not immediately apparent from his unaffected personality. (But visit his home, and you will find priceless Picassos, Chagalls and a James Turrell art-installation pool...
...would he ask to visit now? It is a transparently political stunt, aimed at the audience back home...
Ahmadinejad's request to visit Ground Zero was turned down by New York police on security grounds and because of construction at the site. (The Iranian leader arrives in New York on Sunday and will give a speech at the General Assembly on Tuesday - the same day President Bush is scheduled to speak.) But when word of his request leaked out, it was met with just the sort of outrage Ahmadinejad must have anticipated...
American politicians - especially presidential hopefuls looking to score easy points - lit into the Iranian President with a candor they rarely show on the campaign trail. "It is unacceptable for [Ahmadinejad], who refuses to renounce and end his own country's support of terrorism, to visit the site of the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil in our nation's history," said Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani - who was New York City mayor at the time of the attacks - thundered: "This is a man who has made threats against America and Israel, is harboring bin Laden...