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GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • The US Postal Service, with the news that President Bush has sent one million Christmas cards this year, at an estimated postage cost of ё235,000.
  • Swaziland's entrant in the Miss World beauty contest; she has so impressed King Mswati III that he intends to marry her on her return home. The king already has three fiancees and nine wives, but he is prepared to make room for 20-year-old Nozipho Shabangu by passing on his least favourite wife to a brother.
  • Ronaldo, who was named World Player of the Year for the third time, just 24 hours after claiming the European player's award. Click here for a picture.
  • Elizabeth Smee, a squatter who won the right to live for free in a ё1m London flat because the owners have abandoned it, joined a religious order, and renounced their worldly possessions. Miss Smee, who has lived in the two-storey South Kensington property for 12 years, now owns the freehold under the 1987 Right to Occupancy Act.
  • Winona Ryder, who escaped a jail sentence for shoplifting. The 31-year-old actress was sentenced instead to 480 hours of community service, three years probation and a fine of $10,000.
  • David Beckham, after a 3 metre statue of him made from chocolate was unveiled in downtown Tokyo. "He's got a smile as sweet as chocolate," said Kenichiro Arai, who came to the shopping district with his girlfriend. "I am quite jealous." Click here for a picture
  • Chinese drivers, after a local company is launching a new car equipped with karaoke machine. The new car, the Geely Beauty Leopard, will sell for US$15,500 and come with a phone, karaoke machine, and navigation system.
  • An Australian university, which is offering a degree in stripping. Students at Griffiths University in Queensland will receive a B.S.A. (Bachelor of Sexual Arts) for taking courses in lap dancing, bump-and-grind, marketing and costume selection.

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • Belgian people, after new research shows they spend only an average of 608 euros for Xmas, about a third less than the European average of 901 euros. The most generous Christmas spenders this year were the Irish, spending an average of 1,395 euros per person on gifts, food, drinks and entertainment.
  • Edinburgh, after a fire destroyed part of the ancient heart of the city. The blaze, which is thought to have started in a pub, gutted many 18th century buildings and caused millions of pounds worth of damage.
  • Paul Taylor, a police constable from South Wales, who was jailed for three months after he helped a neighbour avoid a ё30 parking ticket in return for him feeding his cat. Mr Taylor, 36, has lost his job and most of his pension.
  • Stray dogs in Athens, Greece, which will be sterilised ahead of the Olympic Games in 2004. City authorities said as many as 3,000 dogs were loose in the capital. The animals have become so used to life in central Athens that many of them wait at traffic lights like pedestrians to cross busy streets when the green light shows.
  • German drinkers, who could be about to face their worst nightmare -- a shortage of beer! New government regulations restricting disposable cans and bottles could mean there is not enough beer in shops. Germans each drink an average of 123 litres of beer every year, ranking them only just behind the Czech Republic and Ireland.
  • Robert Cusack, from California, who has been sentenced to 57 days in jail for trying to smuggle a pair of pygmy monkeys, four exotic birds and 50 rare orchids into Los Angeles Airport after a trip to Thailand. The birds were hidden in his case while the monkeys were hidden in his pants!
  • A Santa Claus, who has been arrested for dealing drugs in a Florida shopping mall. Don Henkerson, 45, was detained after police found 85 crack rocks in his Santa suit. They became suspicious when an undercover cop overheard teenagers telling Santa they wanted 'rocks' and 'some of that good shit' for Christmas.
  • A male hairdresser in Iran, who has been arrested by the country's moral police because he gave short haircuts to young women so that they could pretend to be boys and go out in public without having to cover themselves from head to toe. On Tuesday police in the central city of Isfahan arrested the barber and his assistant, herself a woman dressed as a man, after they received reports of sightings of short-haired girls flouting the dress code.
  • A Canadian, woman after she set off the metal detector at an airport. Subsequent x-rays showed a 30cm surgical retractor had been left in her abdomen after surgery four months earlier. A spokesman at the hospital where she had had the surgery said: "Systems are never perfect and, as always, we try to do the best we can".
  • 2 adults and 4 children from the Indian state of Assam, who were trampled to death when a herd of wild elephants went berserk. The elephants had drunk alcohol stored by the villagers. "The elephants, after consuming huge quantity of country-made liquor, went crazy, killing six people on the spot," a police spokesman said.

STATISTICS OF THE WEEK:

  • This Christmas, people in Britain will spend nearly ё100m on presents for their pets.
  • Almost 20% of the women in British jails are serving time for drugs smuggling. Of those, half are from Jamaica.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK:

A firm of architects submitted this design for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center in New York. Click here

So, that is the news for this week. As promised here are the answers to last week's "Politics and Public Institutions" homework:

PART A:

  1. India gained its independence from Britain in 1947. (depend)
  2. People vote for their representative in an election (elect)
  3. I'd hate to live in a dictatorship (dictate)
  4. Some people feel the British monarchy will soon be abolished. (monarch)
  5. An MP is the representative of his or her constituency. (represent)
  6. The US has a system of presidential government. (govern)
  7. In the UK the system is parliamentary (parliament)
  8. Senators are elected for a fixed term. (senate)
  9. Ivan, would you like to be a politician? (politics)
  10. The Prime Minister selects his top officials (office)

PART B:

UK: House of Commons, House of Lords, MP, Monarch, Prime Minister
US: Congress, Senate, Supreme Court, President, House of Representatives, Representative

PART C:

  1. One word meaning the King or Queen of a country is the monarch.
  2. In a general election , every constituency chooses an MP but in a by(e)-election only one MP is being elected.
  3. The party which gets the most votes is called the majority party.
  4. If an MP only just wins his or her seat it is called a marginal seat.
  5. In many systems of government there are two chambers; The USA has both the Senate and the House of Representatives for example.
  6. Voters cast their votes by marking a cross on their ballot paper.
  7. Voters chose from a list of candidates.
  8. The government has to decide the country's economic policy.
  9. Although the judiciary is independent, it can't overrule the Prime Minister's decisions.

This week's homework is about CRIME:

PART A: Match the type of crime (column 2) with the description (column 1)

killing someone kidnapping
stealing from a shop hijacking
selling drugs forgery
making fake money drunken-driving
taking a child and asking its parents for money bribery
driving after taking alcohol murder
stealing from people's pockets blackmail
offering money for illegal services pick-pocketing
threatening to reveal secrets shop-lifting
taking illegal control of a plane smuggling
taking something illegally into another country drug-trafficking

PART B: Complete the table:

crime criminal verb
forgery    
murder    
    burgle
blackmail    
  kidnapper  
    rape

PART C: Use the words in the table to complete the paragraph. You must change the form of the verbs when necessary.

arrest charge commit evidence plead prison
release rob sentence serve steal time
trial verdict witness      

Paul _____ a crime when he _____ a Post Office. He _____ ё5000. A _____ managed to take a photograph of him. The police _____ him and _____ him with robbery. The case came to court two months later. At his _____ Paul _____ not guilty. However, the photograph was used in _____ against him and, as a result, the jury passed a _____ of guilty. The judge _____ him to ten years in _____. He _____ eight years but then he _____ having got _____ off for good behaviour.

And finally a riddle for you:

"I walk around all day and lie around on the floor at night with my tongue hanging out".  What am I?

Best Regards,
Gennadiy Skaraev

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