Enter the Dragon
For reasons that are not yet well understood, many more Chinese goods than ever before have been available in the domestic market this year.



Life, be not proud
With Netherlands becoming the first nation in the world to give parliamentary assent to legalising euthanasia, the human community is once again forced to confront an issue that challenges some of the most basic assumptions that it has held over millennia.



Memory's verdict
Some years ago, in an address to members of the International Bar Association, the chief justice of the New York Court of Appeals said that when he was first appointed, he took his wife to see his Court: ``This,'' (he said with reverence) ``is Justice Benjamin Cardozo's Court where I now sit.''



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