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redstar2000
6th May 2003, 23:48
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/middle_east/3005589.stm

In case you were wondering about that word "proconsul", it was the title of a governor of a province in the Roman Empire and later picked up for use by modern imperialists in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Suitable, I thought.

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(Edited by redstar2000 at 6:51 pm on May 6, 2003)

Anonymous
7th May 2003, 00:37
Indeed.

redstar2000
7th May 2003, 11:05
Meanwhile, it's more blue skies for Halliburton.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/3006149.stm

Life is "sweet" with old friends in public office.

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(Edited by redstar2000 at 6:06 am on May 7, 2003)