Scanning the legal notice advertising in the Long Island, New York daily Newsday of February 21, 2008 I ran across one entitled "Request For Proposal Blight Study and Urban Renewal Plan City of Long Beach, New York." As a Libertarian leader experienced in defending property rights from eminent domain abuse, I have learned to read the […]
All because of Amir Khan
Recently, an interview given by Amir Khan in Tehelka magazine changed my newspaper reading habits. I have been reading the Times of India for some years now- for two reasons – the first is that the TOI is good value for money. When you sell of all those fat sections of the matrimonial advertisements, the […]
How to Live on Less
Part 17 in the series on how to be successfully self-employed You’re on a mission to get to the place where you can quit your job and generate your own income. One of the strategies that will get you there is to live on less. By “living on less,” I’m not suggesting a Thoreau-like […]
Foetus Seized in Abortion Inquiry
Police entered a hospital in Naples, interrogated a woman who had just had her pregnancy terminated, and impounded her aborted fetus after a tip-off from a caller who claimed she was having the abortion outside the legal time limits. In an interview with the paper La Repubblica the woman, known only as Silvana, said: "I […]
Rural high schools lag behind in standards
Many rural high schools in the Philippines lag behind when it comes to the instructional standards, as compared to their urban counterparts. In fact, the affected rural students themselves have echoed their complaints beyond the walls of their alma maters. According to them, they have a hard time coping up the to rigors of college […]
Part 6: El Camino de Santiago
Camino – Day 7 Buenos Dias Los Amigos. Today’s stage took us from Logrono to Najera. The only thing about this journal that is the same as the usual missives is the title. Where other days have been fairly routine, especially yesterday when I found it hard to write about anything, today has been the most […]