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Absolutely hilarious. I think she should be given a visa and allowed to stay indefinitely. She has done an invaluable service to this country, she has exposed a fool proof way for Al Quaeda to breach our national borders and she has also shown how worthless ID cards will be. After all, she was given a pass to allow her into Parliament, which one might think would be somewhat secure. HMG: 0 Brazilian Cleaning Ladies: 1 Steve Browne "...officials seem not to know where she got the pass or to whom it had been issued in the first place" Every security pass I've ever carried has had two things in common, they all bore a picture of my face, and my name. Sometimes more, but never less. This seems to suggest that despite all the TWaT hysteria that our 'representatives' foist upon us, those within parliament still don't really believe the threat sufficiently to implement even the basics of a door entry system such as one might find in any mid size corporation.
Festival of the Arts Boca's stronger second year
The first Festival of the Arts Boca sprang up unexpectedly and on short notice at the peak of last year's cultural season, but instantly established itself as an important — and impressive — addition to the artistic landscape.
There were a few first-time growing pains, admits festival chairman Charles Siemon, though nothing that seriously blunted the festival's momentum once it got under way last March. Those lessons have been put to use to prevent hassles over the next two weeks, as the second annual festival takes over the Mizner Park midtown entertainment district.
Behind the festival's quick impact is the partnership between the national arts management agency IMG Artists and Mizner Park's Centre for the Arts, which operates the Count de Hoernle Amphitheatre (capable of hosting audiences over 4,000) and the adjacent 44,000 square-foot Boca Raton Museum of Art.
Kosovo Faces Huge Economic Hurdles
Joblessness runs close to 50 percent, and much of the work force is uneducated. The average monthly salary is a paltry $220. By virtually every measure, Kosovo joins the family of nations with the dubious distinction of being one of Europe's poorest. It doesn't even have its own international telephone country code: Kosovo shares Monaco's, a holdover from the days when French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner was the top U.N. administrator here and French-owned Alcatel was chosen to develop the phone network. "Everyone knows it's going to be hard," said Alex Anderson, Kosovo project director for the Brussels, Belgium-based International Crisis Group, which keeps tabs on trouble spots in the Balkans. "No one has the idea that it's going to be the land of milk and honey overnight." Kosovo's late leader Ibrahim Rugova used to present visitors with crystals and other gems as proof of its untapped mineral wealth.
PETERSON'S THIRD WIFE WAS KILLED
State police already named Peterson a suspect in the October disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson. He said he is prepared to go to jail if the police show up at his door to arrest him. "Let them do it," Peterson said. "Everything's ready. Everything's in place. "Let them do their thing," he added, almost daring police and prosecutors to pull the trigger on charges. "The thing is, do what you got to do," he said defiantly. "You roll the dice, I'll roll the dice." .
Hellebores: Shy, speckly charmers
Not everyone agrees, but I think the answer is just this: the fact that you have to turn hellebore flowers up to look them in the face and admire their colour and pattern is part of their charm. In fact, if they did look upwards they would simply fill with rain and rot. Hanging down the way they do, they shed the rain perfectly. In recent years hellebores have been transformed: they have come a long way since all we had were single-flowered forms in white, pinks and reds with unpredictable spotting. Now we have singles in every shade (except true blue), including white; almost black; uniformly speckled or splashed with darker markings; there are picotees, dark-eyed forms and intriguing colour melds; and an increasing range of anemone-centred forms and full doubles. Shapes now vary from beautifully and symmetrically rounded to dramatically star-shaped.
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Costello brushes aside Reserve warning
TREASURER Peter Costello has defended the coalition's election spending following commentary that it could over stimulate Australia's economy. Mr Costello again defended Prime Minister John Howard's announcement last Monday of more than $9 billion in new spending, just hours after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) issued a warning about inflation. The RBA warned that stimulating the economy could cause inflation and lead to further interest rate rises. Mr Costello said the coalition's $34 billion tax cuts plan would get more people into the workforce. "Our modelling showed 65,000 new people would come into the workforce and build the capacity of the Australian economy," he told Channel 7. "With unemployment now heading down to four per cent, what we actually need in Australia is, we need more people in the workforce and having a competitive tax system is a good way of getting more people into the workforce." Opposition treasury spokesman Wayne Swan said the coalition was spending $6 billion more than Labor.
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