One of the best parts of traveling for work is that one sometimes gets out and meets the people for whom one is ultimately working. One of the worst is that usually there is no direct communication. Sometimes, with an associate who is reasonably out-going and self-assured, the nuisance of having an...

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To Sri Lanka, which I feared would be like India and hoped would not. And my hopes have been fulfilled. Of course after barely two days it may be too soon to tell, but my feeling is that the people are a lot less fatalistic. There certainly are fewer of them.

I’m here to do some training, but that...

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Seems Silvio Berlusconi isn't the only head of state who likes a laugh, though as far as I know he doesn’t choose a State of the Republic address to clown around. From Neddie comes news that George W Bush was only kidding when he said that the US was going to reduce its dependence on Middle East...

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He’s a caution, that Silvio Berlusconi! That thing about no-sex, because I’ve got an election? [All a joke] http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2006/01/31/1420325-ap.html.¹

Of course, as was said in another (sex-fuelled) context, he would say that, wouldn't he. Or, for those who prefer an...

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Am I the only person who thinks that Silvio Berlusconi’s pledge to abstain (from sex, obviously) during the election campaign is not only totally uncool, but just a little misogynistic? It seems to be a hangover from days of warriors (and their latter-day replacements, sportsmen) that says sex (pr...

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