Monthly Archives: November 2005

Ex oriente lux

"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman." (Margaret Thatcher) Frau Dr. Angela Dorothea Merkel was sworn into office yesterday as Germany’s first female chancellor (or …

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Imagineering

Yours truly hasn’t been active in Blogosphera Estate for some days now (not even answering e-mails – sorry Hash, Melisa, Carina, Mshairi, …) -  mainly due to some extra studies in something we call hydrology:        (I know …

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Bertiers

So I was just trackbacking a google search request on kenya+referendum+blog I’d found in my site stats and landed on Ruud Elmendorp’s blog – a Dutch video journalist who has published some of his nice videos on his website. …

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for your eyes only…

Just the other day I had my mum on the phone and wanted to tell her about this awesome "Je chanterai pour toi" DVD I got when she told me: "yes, my dear, I already read …

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Where elephants fight, the reeds get hurt.

Kudos to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) for compiling a list of 40 politicians ("list of shame") whose "derogatory speech along ethnic and racial lines" during the referendum campaigns were an incitement to violence. The …

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