Cold War legacy a haven for nature
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on May 18, 2008
ONCE the Iron Curtain was synonymous with death and oppression. It was festooned with mines, tripwires, barbed wire, watchtowers and guards paid to shoot human prey.
But this no man’s land was also home to an astonishing variety of wildlife flourishing where the barrier separated communist East from capitalist West. Now, if plans stay on course [...]
The final curtain
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on May 3, 2008
FRANK Lloyd Wright was an arrogant man and he cultivated what you might consider a shortcoming into what he saw as a virtue. It is far nobler, to paraphrase Wright, to be honestly arrogant than to be dishonestly self-effacing.
And he had the genius to carry it off in style, even dressing the part, capes and [...]
Kings face big task to retain Goorjian
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on March 18, 2008
It is going to take a Herculean effort to keep Brian Goorjian with the Sydney Kings.
The curtain was drawn on one of the most tumultuous seasons in Sydney’s checkered history with Friday night’s loss to Melbourne in game five of the NBL grand final series.
Attention now turns immediately to the future of the club itself, [...]
Kings face big task to retain Goorjian
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on March 17, 2008
It is going to take a Herculean effort to keep Brian Goorjian with the Sydney Kings.
The curtain was drawn on one of the most tumultuous seasons in Sydney’s checkered history with Friday night’s loss to Melbourne in game five of the NBL grand final series.
Attention now turns immediately to the future of the club itself, [...]