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  • Ringelmann’s Rope

    By Ian McDonald | Sunday, November 1, 2009 | 0 Comments


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    Ian On Sunday
    Whenever you hear that a Committee has been set up, reach for your worry beads. The overwhelming majority of Committees simply dilute the …

  • The great fire

    By Ian McDonald | Sunday, September 27, 2009 | 2 Comments


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    Ian On Sunday
    At thirteen, I think it was, I was reading love poetry. At seventeen, love-lorn often, I was writing it – very badly, full …

  • What is real development?

    By Ian McDonald | Sunday, September 13, 2009 | 0 Comments


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    Ian On Sunday
    Having retired a couple of years ago after 52 years in the sugar industry, including working closely with governments and regional institutions along …

  • Poetry: The perilous art

    By Ian McDonald | Sunday, August 9, 2009 | 0 Comments


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    What distinguishes human beings more than anything is their use of language. And literature matters profoundly because it is a central example of …

  • Memory of a birth

    By Ian McDonald | Sunday, July 26, 2009 | 0 Comments


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    Ian On Sunday
    Modern man has miraculous powers. He flies to the moon and soars beyond the sun. He creates wonder after wonder. His inventive capacity …

  • Ian On Sunday

    By Ian McDonald | Sunday, July 19, 2009 | 0 Comments


    The extraordinary value in everything

    All my life I have had an urge to preserve the extraordinary value of everything that I experience. I think it …

  • Ian On Sunday

    By Ian McDonald | Sunday, July 5, 2009 | 1 Comment


    Meteors
    How is a great poem created? It is a mystery. It is like asking for an explanation of an exquisite square cut by Brian Lara …

  • Learning how to live well

    By Ian McDonald | Sunday, June 28, 2009 | 0 Comments


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    Education is important not simply for the implantation of specific information about specific subjects but, perhaps more importantly, for the passing on of …

  • Ian On Sunday

    By Ian McDonald | Sunday, June 21, 2009 | 2 Comments


    Inconsolable loss
    Of all the expressions of inconsolable loss I have read concerning the death of anyone greatly loved, the following lament by Henry James, the …

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