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Luddite Coursework for Poor John McCain

By Denis Campbell • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics
Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain admits he has never used a computer. When I realised my own 77-year old mother can open an Internet browser, send e-mail, download photos of her grandkids and visit web pages, it felt my civic duty to introduce Senator McCain to the wonderful world of computing.
His daughter helps him “watch” [...]


Marks and Sparks Lit by Recession Woes

By Denis Campbell • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Business
British shopping institution Marks & Spencer lost 25% of its share value yesterday when its Executive Chairman Sir Stuart Rose announced that due to a lack of consumer confidence, same period store sales were down 5.3% and revenues for the full calendar year would fall by 20%. It must be really bad if people have [...]