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Unsubscribe | Suggest to a friend | Email the editor The Daily Thought March 24, 2008, 11:15 am Get 15% discount on books All Thought Leader newsletter subscribers receive a 15% discount on books ordered from the Exclusive Books website. Simply go to the order form and use the Thought Leader promo code MGT1. Buy Books... Between antagonism and ambivalence: Russia-China relations by Israel Rafalovich on March 24th, 2008 For decades the antagonism between Russia and China was a constant of international politics. Such mutual relations tend to be marked by ambivalence. With hardly any other country has Russia fostered contacts with such intensity as with China. ... A vegetarian's nightmare, oozing blood and attitude by Tony Jackman on March 23rd, 2008 Vegetarians throughout the land will be sharpening their carrots on reading what I'm about to write, but in the interests of levity I have to own up to my one acknowledged prejudice: no, not vegetarians, but vegetarianism. There is a difference. M... Open letter to Mondli Makhanya on metro cops, City Power and Eskom by Michael Trapido on March 23rd, 2008 Dear Sir, I was outraged by your attack on the fine young men and women of the metro cops who have become almost like policemen to us. I mean, how dare you offend the very people who ensure that, after being gridlocked at a robot for three hours ... Poultry: Dinner with Tyson, Rainbow and victims of the Holocaust by Khadija Sharife on March 22nd, 2008 "When I was young, my mother used to tell me stories about segregated bathrooms," said Henry Adams. "I never thought that her reality of 71 years ago would become my reality today." In an article entitled "Tyson Foods sued for whites-only area", A... Power pain by Sandy Carroll on March 22nd, 2008 Pay more for less service -- this was pretty much the message from Eskom this week. Now, I know, before you start jumping up and down, that price escalation is critical to ensure capital availability to construct generation capacity and infrastru... A man who helped me dream by Kanthan Pillay on March 22nd, 2008 "Having done several thousand interviews in all media, I'm now completely fed up with talking (even about myself). Everything anyone needs to know will be found in my own writings ... " February 8 1999 It's a sweltering day in what is definitely... Art and science; images and concepts by Bert Olivier on March 22nd, 2008 Some of the responses to my previous posting suggested that the relation between images and concepts, as explained by Leonard Shlain in his book on the link between alphabet literacy and patriarchy (The Alphabet versus the Goddess), requires clarific... Lies -- more lies -- and then there are financial firms by Anja Merret on March 22nd, 2008 A blogger friend posted a lovely short article recently with the title "6 Reasons Why We Lie". All of his reasons were absolutely spot-on. However, his final summary was the best. He maintained that the fundamental reason why people lie is because it... Barack Obama echoes Mandela: The rainbow nation address by Michael Trapido on March 21st, 2008 "Understanding this reality requires a reminder of how we arrived at this point. As William Faulkner once wrote: "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this coun... Honey, I'm home! by Yazeed Kamaldien on March 20th, 2008 Isn't Cape Town the most beautiful graveyard you've ever seen? Okay, that's maybe too cynical. But let's get real about a few things. Cape Town is not the most beautiful place in the world. It doesn't have the best beaches and neither does ... Read More on Thoughtleader.co.za