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Editorial Moderates win raises hopes of new dawn in Iran
By any yardstick, the resounding victory by moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani in the Iranian presidential election was a welcome surprise. It had been widely believed the poll would be won by a hard-line candidate who would be even more difficult to deal with than the outgoing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Yet again, however, the Iranian people seized the opportunity to express their disapproval of their ...
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Turkey A Long and Eventful Week in Istanbul
It has been a long and eventful week in Istanbul. It will be hard for many who were there to forget the scenes reminiscent of war on the streets around Taksim Square and Gezi Park, the site of the protests, on Tuesday evening and into the night. After apparently conciliatory tweets from Istanbul governor Hüseyin Avni Mutlu to the young protesters occupying Gezi Park just a day earlier, and ...
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Globe Editorial Accountability not lack of money is the real problem on federal reserves
A new report that says half of all status First Nations children in Canada live in poverty paints a dire picture but should also be a source of optimism. In a refreshing break from the usual handwringing, the report points out that injecting more money into First Nations reserves won't accomplish a thing until what it accurately describes as a "dysfunctional accountability system" ...
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Farewell to hotel room service
A cart with finished room-service orders at the New York Hilton Midtown, June 2, 2013. In August, the hotel will discontinue food and drink service to all 2,000 of its rooms; in its place will be a new cafeteria-style restaurant that will be stocked with grab-and-go ...
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Editorial City of Reginas referendum tactic didnt hold water
It had a bad smell about it from the get-go. We refer to the City of Regina's unsuccessful 11th hour bid to change the rules around the issue of holding a public vote on its public/private partnership (P3) plan to upgrade its wastewater treatment plant.As the Regina Water Watch lobby group closed in last week on the required number of petition signatures to force a referendum on the ...
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The soft sciences matter as much as ever
report released this week bears out what many educators have been predicting: Amid rising college tuition, increased global economic competition and a job market that disproportionately rewards graduates in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields, students are seeking degrees in what they and, indeed, many in our nation view as lucrative business and hard-science disciplines. The ...
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It Will Take More Than JPMorgan to Get an A Rating
The core of the argument taking place at the top of government right now is about how to boost mid- and long-term economic growth without risking a loss of the current relative stability in the economy and the country. Or, to refine it even more basically, what measures can be agreed to today which will best ensure public support for the Kremlin's preferences during the State Duma and ...
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Resilient Consumers Will Save Russia
The recent slowdown to 1.6 percent growth in the first quarter of 2013, combined with stagnant investment and industrial production and falling corporate borrowing, has prompted the government to review its economic policy. It has also sparked talk of recession, but this is an overreaction. In my view, the resilient Russian consumer will ensure a respectable 3 percent growth in 2013. There are ...
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Phyllis Chesler Interviews Carol Gould
Contributed by : Phyllis Chesler We are reprinting one of our very special features:October 15, 2007 The Chesler Chroniclesby Phyllis CheslerINTERVIEWS WITH EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. CAROL GOULD: PRO-AMERICAN, PRO-ISRAELI, WHO LIVES IN LONDONISTAN FOR COMIC RELIEFCarol Gould is a very funny woman. She is as witty as she is heartbreaking and she is quintessentially theatrical. When I first met ...
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Andrew Alexander is Wildly Wrong about American Leaders
Contributed by : Carol Gould As the G8 leaders assemble in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, we look back at a piece we filed at the turn of the year.*************First published on 2 January 2013LondonAs election day in the Unites States has at long last come and gone and Inauguration Day approaches I am moved to respond to one of a mountain of editorials to emerge from the British print ...
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Are the UK local elections a wake-up call for David Cameron
Contributed by : The Editors Carol Gould's novel 'Spitfire Girls,' which in 2011 was under option to a major UK television production company, Sally Head Productions ('Prime Suspect')is available to upload from Amazon ...
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The sum total of my 2012 Experience trying to get into ONE Olympic event
Contributed by : Carol Gould Well, once again Piers Morgan is in the news. Notwithstanding my shame and horror as the Connecticut massacre unfolded on 14 December, his anti-American fury reminded me of the 'old' Piers who so hated the USA when he was editor of the Daily Mirror. Please read my full narrative below. Here is a link to the latest ...
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Why did British television not cover the Penn State child abuse story
Contributed by : Carol Gould [Editor's Note 16 November 2012: The Israeli-Palestinian situation is in the news again. Hundreds of rockets are being launched by Islamic Jihad by their own admission and by Hamas from Gaza into Israel as far north as Tel Aviv. If only the Palestinians would seek peace and not conflict...]10th November 2012LondonJust what did Liberal Democrat peer Lord ...
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Millions saved but now face financial ruin
Contributed by : Carol Gould Putting gay marriage and abortion aside, the dilemma Americans have is that a successful businessman is pitted against an incumbent who has not made the 2008 dream of prosperity a reality. Barack Obama has not shown the promise so many expected of him. When Susan Eisenhower and Julie Nixon, the progeny of Republican presidents, formed Republicans for Obama that ...
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Austerity does not Work
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonOne of the most remarkable interviews I have watched in years was broadcast on CNN in mid- May; I was about to report on its significant points when its subject, Vidal Sassoon, sadly left this mortal world. In the interview Sassoon said capitalism had not worked and that much of the world and most particularly the United States ...
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The Condoleezza Rice Factor
Contributed by : Carol Gould In light of the Prime Minister proposing that Housing Benefit be taken from young people aged twenty-five and under I have written the following letter to my MP:Dear Karen,As an American with dual US-UK nationality I find it repugnant to see the perpetual banging-on by the media and politicians about the benefit system and the ...
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The YouGov Panel on the US Elections
Contributed by : Carol Gould Carol Gould on Libya24 March 2012I believe that the issue of ...
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For Americans Lockerbie Will Not go Away
Contributed by : Carol Gould Andrew Adler in the January 13 edition of the Atlanta Jewish Times has called for the assassination of President Obama by the Israeli Mossad as part of a coordinated scenario to remove the Iranian regime and its nuclear development programme. Adler may actually be violating state and federal law and his words have been roundly condemned worldwide but I've ...
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TIMES article about Carol Gould and the General Medical Councils Failure to take Owen Gilmore to trial
Contributed by : Carol Gould Gaddafy is dead. There are calls for the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbasst ali al Megrahi to be returned to jail in Scotland (the irony is that he might be safer in Great Britain than at home if civil war takes hold) and for the murderer of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, killed outside the Libyan Embassy in London on 17 April 1984, to be tracked down and finally brought to ...
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Philadelphia High School for Girls my memories 40 years on
Contributed by : Carol Gould London I have been reading with great interest Allison ...
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Our Nightmare Day in Mayfair London 911
Contributed by : Carol Gould 24th Septembwer 2011LondonAs I languish in homesickness on this day of the fortieth reunion of the graduating class of 1971 I offer to our readers the essay I composed for the Reunion Committee : my memories of the turbulent world events of 1967-1971. It is so hard to make non-Americans and even non-Philadelphians understand the sisterhood that lasts a lifetime ...
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First it was the Big Society Now its the Broken Society
Contributed by : Carol Gould (First published February 20, 2011)LondonWhen I was a very little girl my mother used to say to my sister and me that ...
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Can one still give Barack Obama the benefit of the Doubt
Contributed by : Carol Gould London'...What does David Cameron have to offer but divisive and crude rhetoric? How dare he call this remarkable nation broken and sick? Millions of citizens like me are penniless and sick because of criminal bankers and endowment and pension providers giving us a pittance after twenty-five years of loyal investment....'16 August 2011Selma was ...
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July 10th Carol Gould Jonathan Freedland Omar Barghouti and Seni Seneviratne at the 2011 South Bank Literature Festival...
Contributed by : Carol Gould The article below was published in December 2010. As the USA gets closer to default I reject claims by conservative commentators that the present crisis arises from the Obama adninistration's action or inaction. Though I will acknowledge that Franklin Roosevelt was a consummate politician who knew how to commandeer support from Republicans, which Obama ...
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Fawlty Towers Lives in Eastbourne
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonIn my previous article I recounted the bizarre experiences I had in Eastbourne on my first UK holiday in five years. I would like now to turn to even more bizarre events during my visit as well as some unpleasant encounters in London. No sooner had I arrived in the coastal town than I discovered that my sunglass frames had come apart. The following day I ...
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Turkmenistan's new olympic development could be blessing or curse
Work has finally begun on the massive Ashgabat Olympic complex development, a US $5 billion project that aims to enhance the standing of the capital city when Turkmenistan makes a bid to host the Olympic Games.
The sports complex being built in Ashgabat will be the largest and most state-of-the-art of its kind in Central Asia, underscoring Turkmenistan’s position as a regional power due to the country’s extensive natural gas and oil reserves, while its completion will also illustrate the growing presence of the country in the international community. Read more
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