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Life of Riley: Riley Inc
back, and Riley Inc wants a share of the action. If the profit surge continues at its current rate of ... Riley Inc By Dave Riley Are you concerned about social issues and corporate ethics? Are you ... integrate your personal values with your investment objectives. As of today, I have capitalised on my ...
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Life of Riley: Life's a beach in Haiti
By Dave Riley Uncle Sam says: I want you. I want you in khaki. I want you in Haiti. I want you ... doing your bit for democracy. I want you at one end of a gun barrel. I want what I want — you better ... fine. Just to sit on a deck chair and look out to sea enjoying the fruits of democracy. Haiti was the ...
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Life of Riley: Prayer of the Foetus Worshippers
Prayer of the Foetus Worshippers By Dave Riley Every time I open my wallet an avalanche of ... back room — a whole wall of foeti — and acts as casting agent for Right to Life pictorials. Selections ... fingers every time I do the dishes. Be prepared. That's the point. Dib. Dib. Be a bit of a boy scout. ...
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Life of Riley: The power of one
for it is only made possible by offering due deference to the power of one. Dave Riley December 14, ... The power of one Imagine with thyself, courteous reader, how often I have wished for such a tongue ... of oratory that might enable me to celebrate the praise of my own dear native country in a style ...
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The life of Riley: Help wanted
any such thing. What is really required of them is to have a full life on the dole. Brad Thompson, ... remember when I finished school how much I looked forward to a life of leisure. I couldn't have cared ... a social planning consultant contracted to the federal government Youth Affairs Bureau, was one of the ...
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Life of Riley: Politics for beginners
Politics for beginners By Dave Riley The way Graham Richardson calls it, politics is a mug's ... game. With sharks like Richo at large maybe it is best to stay out of the water altogether. "Be ... to my underpants. Worn on the head they can be especially vehement. I also possess a range of ...
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Life of Riley: Depression hits Robinson Crusoe's island
Depression hits Robinson Crusoe's island By Dave Riley "Friday", said Robinson ... you know there's a big surplus of last year's crop. I don't need you to plant another ... that." "That's all right, provided you don't use any of my trees for the canoe, or build ...
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Street life in Brisbane
By Dave Riley BRISBANE — Crime waves make good copy. Journalists can spice up a story with charges ... of gangsterism and thuggery after stopping off at the media liaison section of the Queensland Police ... Force. Regardless of the recent headings in the local Courier-Mail, crime in Queensland has not increased ...
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Is there life after work?
the working life, the time spent travelling to and from work, the intensification of the effort ... multitude of demands made on our time and the uncertainties of our daily life we have lost the ability to ... life in the '90s. The quality of life after work is much more than a technical fix. While we ...
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Joys for the sedentary naturalist
The Trials of Life Channel 2 The Life Revolution SBS Reviewed by Dave Riley When someone allocates ... latest offering on the ins and outs of living is The Trials of Life. Whereas Life on Earth was ... life. Herein lies the trap. In its broad sweep, comparing one creature's home life to that of ...
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Of hermaphrodite squids and Chartists
unending interplay of species. This is simply not true. Darwinian life on earth is a succession of ... Darwin By Adrian Desmond and James Moore Penguin. 808 pp, $19.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley How could ... a wealthy, respectable gentleman of impeccable lineage and reclusive tastes claim in the 1830s that humans ...
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The ecology of indigenous peoples
$19.95. Reviewed by Dave Riley Human history is part of natural history. Human beings arose via their ... is found wanting. Barely does it comprehend the interconnectedness of life. Writers like David Suzuki ... peoples, Knudtson and Suzuki argue that while the dimension of the interconnectedness of all life may have ...
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In praise of cookery books
By Dave Riley Hunger is a craving that demands gratification. For the infant, what we call hunger ... begins with diffuse discomfort which slowly, through the nurture of others, attains some meaning as ... a circuit of pain gratified by food. However, this process is saturated with cultural meaning. Each society ...
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Stand-up comic of the revolution
Riley Over 20 years ago in our shared, boldly political household, we took our icons seriously. To live ... the revolution in those days, we made sure that a portrait of Malcolm X was featured in the lounge ... room. Among the other images on our four walls, that of Lenny Bruce seemed just as relevant to our ...
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Tu-be or not tu-be
India and the acclaimed documentary Tongues Untied, an account of black gay life. February 19, 1992 44 ... Tu-be or not tu-be By Dave Riley It's official: you can now turn your television set back on. ... The squalid drought is over and a succession of ratings periods await your delight. This is the year ...
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Street kids
Black Community Housing Service president Mervyn Riley says an increasing number of Aboriginal and ... much to offer teenagers, and many find the attraction of life in the city too great. Born Free Club ... a spirit-breaking life of dependency on social welfare payments. He says these payments are not enough and that many ...
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Informing the ecological debate
Press, 273 pp. Reviewed by Dave Riley There seems to be a frustrating paucity of informed debate within ... theorists of the life sciences. Her contributors are an impressive list, each of whom has established credit ... behaviour to the activity of genes. Richard Dawkins' outlook is a gene's eye view of life on ...
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On the box
On the box By Dave Riley The drought may be over. In a week of transitions, we lost the Doug ... Bank. A new two-part series (SBS, Monday, July 27) explores the life and influence of Josef Broz Tito. ... Anthony All Stars — and good riddance to them, I say. There is no pleasure in the nihilistic egotism of ...
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Tragedy as saccharin
Riley Who are you? In most senses you could define yourself relative to other people — with whom you ... a sense of your own motor existence. Lose this, and you are in big trouble. This is the topic of ... Sacks is a skilled and articulate author of studies of some classic neurological disorders. One of the ...
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Rogernomics come home to roost
Dave Riley There is a future. Today's comfort becomes tomorrow's memory. Rosie Scott's ... new work is a novel, not of fantasy, but of extrapolation uncomfortably close to the present. The ... horror of this future place is seeded in the crude merchandising of today's economic czars. Set in ...