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Patrick Cockburn We are the Awaleq, born of bitterness We are the nails that go into the rock We are the sparks of hell He who defies us will be burned THIS is the tribal chant of the powerful Awaleq tribe of Yemen, in which they bid defiance to the world. Its angry tone conveys

antipathy to Archbishop Diarmuid Martin to cloud his perception of what happened in the Dublin Archdiocese for the period of the Murphy report The reason for all the then auxiliary bishops at the time in Dublin to resign is, as Bishop James Moriarty put it, that they collectivel

AS the annus horribilis that has been 2009 draws to a close, many events of the year (and decade) gone by are being recalled. Unfortunately, as we progress into the great unknown of the 2010 s, our country is on an economic precipice. One thing which it is said will prevent us f

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-duq -Ism 91When it opens next week, the Burj Dubai wi .=But it is just the latest example of mankind's EXT week, Dubai formally opens the highfiti est thing yet built, the 01 v. next generation of 01 skyscraper: the heav-1911 ,enscraper. At 818 metres, about • 2,684 ft (or ther

II be the world's tallest building . . . for no' 'edifice complex', writes Ben Mclntyre at least. tory, so too is the idea that building a self-aggrandising monument is an invitation to disaster. Cultures in Central America, Nepal and Africa all have variations of the Tower of B

money tend to succumb to what has year Reich. its spire collapsed in 1549). Sad- intended to reflect the ambi- has always been expressed in been called the "edifice coin- Some physical statements of dam Hussein had his own arms tions of the Malaysian Prime architectural height:

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