Stamp to lick mail tricksters

"A TAMPER-proof stamp is being introduced to stop cheats peeling off and re-using old ones. " This will certainly prevent the re-use of stamp. But what will it affect stamp collectors then? Sure we wouldn't want to collect stamps with two holes.

Peeling the onion

"Over the past few weeks, I’ve offered up several short blurbs about the unraveling of the financial markets. To my surprise, it is a subject which continues to get only cursory media attention. Were it not for the coverage in the foreign press, a person might be persuaded...

New York Times

"If it was the desire of the man who called himself William M. V. Kingsland to be remembered in the salons of New York long after he died, to be the subject of the kind of scandal-whiffed conversation he once so enjoyed, to be the one having the last loud laugh, then the man...