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To: TobagoJack who wrote (38938)	9/28/2003 11:43:51 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

It's simple: The French don't respect size and treat the US as equals. Germans don't do that. Big guys hate people who don't give a damn about size and don't give the deference they thing they deserve.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (38938)	9/29/2003 12:23:35 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Respond to of 74559

>>as it could simply be a man-woman thing<< Thank God, this Mars-Venus meme is still around like a bottle of Antacid. Makes everything fall into same old familiar pidgenholes ... regZ dj

To: TobagoJack who wrote (38938)	9/29/2003 1:20:59 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

cash-for-visa: Instead of plain population replenishment and free movement of people, government officials are cashing in on visas. You can probably tell us how much those visa officers were making before HK handover to China. Tan, who fled the country two weeks ago, donated $10,000 to Mr Ruddock's re-election campaign in 2001, shortly before Mr Ruddock helped restore his visa. Inquiry to target Ruddock on cash-for-visas claims By Cynthia Banham and Mark Riley June 20 2003 The Immigration Minister, Philip Ruddock, faces a parliamentary inquiry into the use of his discretionary powers to overturn visa rejections, as the Opposition continues its attack in the "cash-for-visas" controversy. A Senate select committee, established yesterday by Labor with the support of the Democrats and the Greens, will investigate decisions taken by Mr Ruddock to overrule his department, the immigration tribunals and the courts to grant visas. The terms of reference include the examination of the cases at the centre of the continuing Opposition attacks, which claim Mr Ruddock only exercised his ministerial discretion in three cases after donations had been made to the Liberal Party. Yesterday, Mr Ruddock denied there were flaws in the system, and played down the importance of the decisions he was making. "In overturning the decision it is not a matter of gravity because it is giving, when you do it, an outcome that people are seeking, so it's not that people are left worse off," he said. Mr Ruddock this week admitted to personally granting a protection visa to a Lebanese man, Bedweny Hbeiche, without reading his departmental file. Mr Ruddock said it was "naive" to expect him to read such files because they were too hefty, and he received thousands of requests to intervene each year. Labor has accused the minister of misleading Parliament over Mr Hbeiche's case, a claim Mr Ruddock has denied. He is also under fire for granting a business skills visa and citizenship to one of Asia's most-wanted corporate fugitives, Dante Tan. Tan, who fled the country two weeks ago, donated $10,000 to Mr Ruddock's re-election campaign in 2001, shortly before Mr Ruddock helped restore his visa.