LESSONS FROM THE SOUTH SIDE (Georgie Anne Geyer via Yahoo! News) WASHINGTON -- When I grew up, a long time ago, I wanted desperately to be a foreign correspondent. Names like Marrakech, Kashgar, Istanbul, Bali and Timbuktu rang like strange church bells in my ears, calling me forth to the worship of discovery. Foreign: That was what I was after. I was besotted with the exotic! Australian jailed over drugs in Indonesia (Straits Times) DENPASAR (Indonesia) - AN AUSTRALIAN man was sentenced to five months and fifteen days in jail on Tuesday after he was found guilty of drug consumption by a court on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. |
