The Sunday Herald contained three seemingly unrelated articles that suggest a solution to the state's financial crisis. The first article indicated various candidates' position on the reinstatement of the death penalty. While indicating that innocent people can and have been sentenced to death, that the penalty itself doesn't serve as a deterrent and costs the government millions of dollars to pursue, the article did not explore the possibilities of turning the event into a moneymaker for the state. Fox News would pay large sums to televise the actual killings, narrated by some of their top-line correspondents. [continues 139 words]
The US and United Nations have ignored repeated calls by the international anti-drugs community to address the increasing menace of Afghanistan's opium cultivation, threatening a rift between Europe and the US as they begin to reconstruct the country. With the US focused on its anti-terror campaign and the UN hamstrung by a drugs agency discredited by the misallocation of funds by Pino Arlacchi, its former chief, the fight against Afghanistan's drugs problem was facing an uphill battle, diplomats and anti-drugs officials said. [continues 843 words]
