New Zealand imposes diplomatic sanctions on Israel after an incident involving two alleged Mossad agents committing passport fraud. (BBC) (New Zealand Herald) (Independent) (TVNZ) (VOA)
A United Nations report says that life expectancy in some parts of Africa has dropped to below 33 years, due to the AIDS epidemic. (Medical News Today)
The U.S. bankruptcy court for Manhattan approved the reorganization plan of notorious energy-trading company Enron, which is now likely to formally emerge from chapter 11 later this year. (Washington Post)
I am convinced that the unspoken -- and secretly most impelling -- issue in the election of 2004 is the election of 2000.
This election, in fact, will almost certainly be seen by many, both now and in the future, as an attempt to reconfirm the image of governmental integrity in the United States, to reassert real democracy, to reauthenticate the American ballot box.
However little people say about it publicly, I have an idea that the major issue underlying this next election is, nevertheless, the election we had before it.
July 14 2004, 8:43 PM I always wondered if fans of David's in the UK and abroad resented the title of the album to an extent that it tainted their open-mindedness to an extent.
July152004, 7:55 AM I am sure I read some where that John Lennon said DB's version of Across The Universe on Young Americans was how he wanted the Beatles to record it originally.
July152004, 12:29 PM The thing that bemuses me about people thinking the Bowie version is actually better is that it completely omits the Jai Guru Deva Om section; one of the loveliest bits of the original.
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