Republicanism in this country is the aloofness of the Supreme Court from the political departments and its superior respectability compared to the accommodating availability of the President of the Philippines and Congress to the importunate electorate and their dependence on its capricious goodwill.
I had a colleague on the Court who during the more than eight [...]
delivered a speech entitled “The Government by the Governed†where I said that our government was being run not by the public officials themselves but by the people they were governing. I said it was we ourselves, the sovereign people as the Constitution described us, who were the real rulers of our country through the [...]
Share autos are a boon to commuters. With cheap rates, comfortable frequency, various stops, this mode of transportation is quite popular in lot areas of the city. But the most commonly found share auto route is the T.Nagar - Thirumangalam route & LIC - Golden Flats route. Next follows the deep suburban areas like Porur [...]
This submission summarizes Human Rights Watch’s key concerns with Zambia’s fulfillment of its human rights obligations and commitments in the context of women’s human rights and HIV/AIDS, and outlines recommendations to Zambia.
For an elaborate analysis, outlining our concerns in detail, please see the Human Rights Watch report Hidden in the Mealie Meal: Gender-based Abuses and [...]
Anthea Levy said she was horrified when she saw the trout for the first time.
%26quot;Last year we redesigned the waterfront and its really nice down there and suddenly this big trout appears. Its not appropriate.%26quot; The Te Anau lakefront had been unspoilt before the trout appeared at Easter, she said.
%26quot;You look across at the mountains [...]
MayRun To The SunNewquay, Cornwall23-26 May For most of its 22-year history, Run to the Sun has simply been a group of VW Campervan owners getting together to drive to the beach in Cornwall. Now it has grown into a fully fledged three-day music festival, with four arenas and two sites, but it still starts [...]
They are looking for evidence the girl, who allegedly had a baby at 15, and 50-year-old Dale Barlow were married. Under Texas law, girls younger than 16 cannot marry, even with parental approval.
Allison Palmer, the prosecutor working on the case, said other law enforcement agencies “know where (Barlow) is and have talked to him, but [...]
The women and children were taken out of the compound Friday and Saturday and had been staying in a local church and civic center. By midday Sunday, dozens of women and children, mostly girls, were seen boarding buses on their way to San Angelo, a larger town 45 miles away. [...]
Astonishingly beautiful and extremely varied, the seven islands and various uninhabited islets of the Aeolian archipelago were designated a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2000. Their volcanic origins left a dramatic legacy of black-sand beaches, smouldering craters and splintered, rocky coastlines. Island-hoppers can discover their individual charms: from the spartan conical Alicudi, where donkeys are [...]
A proud day in the life of every parent is when a child makes their first Google search. Four-year-old Maddy’s enquiry was for chickens, which we have agreed to buy as pets. She has the names - Jonathan and Esme - and she has the hen-house, but I’ve managed to hold off on actual delivery. [...]
