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Healing Haiti through football
- By Periscope 13 June 2010
by Gemma Pitcher. “Maths is too easy!” boasts ten year old Edouard. “I don’t care about it, but I have to go to the lessons, or they don’t let me play soccer.” He chuck…
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Founder’s Update: June 2010
- By Thomas D. Gommes 13 June 2010
Dear Readers, As summer approaches and the sun is an increasingly frequent visitor, there’s plenty to report from the world of Periscope. First of all, I’d like to welcome Toby…
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Could Laws have avoided his shaming?
- By Graham Wilson 31 May 2010
The controversy continues around the extent to which David Laws knowingly continued to claim his expenses when he was no longer eligible. Other commentators have pointed out that h…
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Beg, borrow or steal: the Greek crisis
- By Alexandros Stavrakas 10 May 2010
The commentary on the Greek crisis has predictably descended into a spectacle of cheap moralisation. Over the past months, we have been bombarded with accusatory tirades aimed agai…
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Greeceing the wheels of democracy
- By Anastasios Leventis 7 May 2010
In the fourth century BC, the Athenian rhetorician Isocrates compared the political leadership of the day unfavourably with that of Solon and Cleisthenes, the fathers of Athenian d…
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Smoking allowed: Schwarzenegger vetoes California smoking ban
- By Onome Akpogheneta 4 May 2010
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill which proposed a state-wide smoking ban in city parks and beaches. Calling the proposed bill “an improper intrusion of…
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