Flavour of the month
The News Review:
- Flavour of the month
- Germany at a loss over walkout
- Correction to This Article
- We Are Becoming Paralyzed to Do What Self-preservation Demands
Flavour of the month
The Age – Jan 25, 2005
Oxheart and beefsteak tomatoes are rarely seen. Both of thesevarieties – and heirloom varieties such as Black Russian and GreenZebra – are available to home gardeners, who definitely have theadvantage. Home-grown, ripened on the vine, left at room temperature for aday or so still has to be the best of all tomato experiences. And this, of course, is what happens in tomato-loving countriessuch as Italy and Spain, where great mountains of tomatoes labelled”nostro” or whatever the equivalent is in Spanish, meaning “ours”or “local”, are in every market stall and every supermarket, andthey are bought in huge quantities. Many in Australia also savour the home-grown tomato. There’salso the choice between very expensive, highly coloured hydroponictomatoes, of various sizes and shapes; egg-shaped Romas in highsummer that are the best for slow-roasting or home drying; the verybumpy and flavoursome Murray Bridge or Adelaide tomatoes that seemto be more available in fresh-food markets than in retail shops;and the cheaper, trellis-grown, medium-coloured fruit ofunremarkable flavour. I was heartened to read a few months ago that tomatoes are nolonger picked green and blasted with ethylene gas, and interestedto learn that Professor Barry McGlasson, of the Centre forHorticulture and Plant Science at the University of Western Sydney,believes that improved varieties and better post-harvest handlinghave contributed to better-flavoured tomatoes in recent years.
Germany at a loss over walkout
International Herald Tribune – Jan 25, 2005
The Christian Democrats have lost ground and the Social Democrats are simply not present as a party. There is a political vacuum. The main political parties have no home-grown bases here. The National Democratic Party is filling the vacuum. "The Social Democrats won 9. 8 percent of the vote last September yet were brought into power by the Christian Democrats in order to keep the formerly communist Party of Democratic Socialism, which won 23. 6 percent of the vote, from entering government.
Correction to This Article
Washington Post – Jan 25, 2005
It was a show of filial piety toward a man who had spent much of his career as a segregationist and white supremacist. Once he was in the grave, however, the news media promptly and doggedly tracked down Washington-Williams, then in her late seventies, and blared her revelatory story. The public lapped it up, savoring the irony of arguably the country’s best-known symbol of home-grown apartheid having had a youthful sexual liaison with an African American girl. Didn’t we know that an “as told to” memoir would soon follow? Unfortunately, “Dear Senator” has many problems. Washington-Williams (her married name) has a significant story to tell, but it’s told in wretched ways in her memoir. Her collaborator, William Stadiem, a Wall Street lawyer turned Hollywood screenwriter, also co-authored (among other works) the tawdry “Mr. S: My Life With Frank Sinatra” with George Jacobs, the singer’s African American butler.
We Are Becoming Paralyzed to Do What Self-preservation Demands
AINA – Jan 25, 2005
, Human Rights Watch, and Center For Constitutional Rights attempt to thwart necessary police efforts by claiming it constitutes “racial profiling” and “group harassment”? It appears that the binding and throat-slashing of an entire Christian family in Jersey City was a Koran-instructed ” ritual murder” by American jihadists against someone who dared to express an opinion about the Koran unacceptable to home-grown Islamic cell-operatives here in New Jersey. Hossan Armanious, a Coptic Christian, was threatened by participants in an internet chat room that if he continued to speak against Islamic practices: “We will hunt you down like a chicken and kill you. ” Radical Islam has shown that they are going to do here to “infidels” what they do back home. Unlike other communities, the tight-knit Islamic neighborhood in New Jersey will probably not cough-up the perpetrators, so the police will have to embark on a comprehensive search within the community to find the murderers. If the past is any guide, groups such as the A.