As Americans turn angrily on Barack Obama over his handling of the oilspill (see grow up and pointing the finger) both the New Yorker and The Economist invoke the figure of King Canute. The New Yorker's Bob Madoff has a cartoon of a king on his throne at the beach with oil lapping round his feet.
The Economist has a leader that reminds readers (at last) that the 11th century Danish King was proving to his courtiers that he was not omnipotent.
Searching for Satyrus review – on the hunt for an elusive butterfly and the
lepidopterist who named them
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Rena Effendi attempts to find the species named after her wayward,
womanising father – and a connection to the man she never knew – in this
moving docume...
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