Weird spins in a changing world

  • 1998-10-22
  • Philip Birzulis
El Nino, Russia on its knees, Latvians making sensible election decisions - has the world turned on its head? Philip Birzulis cites some more cases of strange global developments.Warning: there is probably something to offend everybody in the following article. In the interests of fairness, all have been slandered equally.1. In the wake of the elections, two men who claim to have made their fortunes selling flowers are vying to become Latvia's prime minister. Those Westerners who dropped back into the world after the 60s probably gave out petals for free during their idealistic student days...
 
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