None of these examples, needless to say, shines much light on what would happen if a country with 65 million people and such a huge economy decided to sling its hook.
For the Telegraph to sling mud rather than address these claims of serious ethical lapses is a grave error of judgment.
This is a kind of Somerset sling.
Such matters cannot be discussed openly in Thailand because of its draconian lèse-majesté laws, which are often abused to sling mud at opponents (see article).The Thai courts will probably go through the motions of trying to bring Mr Thaksin back to face justice.
Not if those queuing up to sling mud at the nuclear five, but chiefly America (see article), were to devote as much energy and more imagination to making life harder for the would-be cheats.Ideas whose time has comeIt is high time for the toughened safeguards drawn up in the 1990s by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear guardian, to be made mandatory.
In some American states, delinquent dads are liable to find their faces in newspapers or on the sides of milk cartons; some places round them up and sling them in jail for an afternoon.But no amount of reform will reverse the social change that has steadily increased the CSA's workload and added to its problems.
Americans sling their business cards casually across a table; the Japanese make the exchange of cards as elaborate as a tea ceremony.
If the investigation lasts long enough, even an honest official's career prospects will be destroyed.In this section Reimposing order Dirty tricks The good midwife of Sichuan ReprintsWhile some cadres sling false allegations of corruption, others are buying new party titles from enterprising superiors.
Behind the big data backlash is the classic hype cycle, in which a technology's early proponents make overly grandiose claims, people sling arrows when those promises fall flat, but the technology eventually transforms the world, though not necessarily in ways the pundits expected.
But it has at least given Mr Anwar's camp mud to sling back at his enemies.
AT ITS first meeting last May, Silvio Berlusconi's government approved a tough "security package" to stem illegal immigration and sling out unwanted foreigners.
