But speaking of Russia, I’d be interested in your take on syd’s off-topic comment at my holy simoleons post, should you care to weigh in.
]]>Of course a big problem is that senior civil servants get to put forward names, and they would tend to include their mates from school.
Hipparchia, if you had watched Russia, you would know Anne and Hedrick Smith of the NY Times. Anne was also one of the few Western reporters in Baghdad when we invaded. She’s in Baghdad now reporting for NPR.
]]>I tried to do some internet research on the British “honours system” last night, so that I could reply cogently to this post. What a convoluted, and apparently misused, system. I give up on that one.
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