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In the great dome’s interior rotunda, painter George Southwell’s murals illustrate the four virtues that “made” British Columbia: Courage, as shown by George Vancouver confronting the Spanish at Nootka Sound in 1792; Spirit of Enterprise, with James Douglas establishing Fort Victoria for the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1842; Work, by those who had to build the Fort; and Justice, meted out to the unruly mob engaged in the 1858 gold rush.
The top story at the Washington Post is a highly critical post-mortem on the U.N.'s East Timor diplomacy, while the Los Angeles Times reports abusive discipline meted out by guards at the California Youth Authority.
In an editorial about a U.S. decision to suspend all scientific collaboration with India and to send several Indian scientists home, the Asian Age said "few scientists from the erstwhile Soviet Union faced such treatment as has been meted out to Indian scientists now, even at the height of the Cold War."
It might also be pointed out that Dole supported the political pardons meted out by Gerald Ford, when he served as Ford's running mate in 1976.
My appetite for Talk has been weakened by these "revelations," which seem as banal as they are carefully meted out.