• Starting a second life at 60

  Many of today's generation of women get a new lease of life at 60, while men only get slower, says business guru Charles Handy. Now he and his photographer wife, Elizabeth, have compiled a book of essays by women in their 60s. Arminta Wallace reports.   p
  

• Russia is still a secret society

  The climate of secrecy in Russia is alive and well - as the lack of  information on the gas in the Moscow theatre siege shows. One problem, campaigner Alexey Simonov tells Judith Crosbie , is that the Western media are less concerned about Russian human rights abuse since the fall of Communism. p
  

• Barriers come down at the Wall

  Irish charity walkers speak ISL in China. John Cradden reports. p
  

• Arts Reviews

  Irish playwrights seem to be going through something of a neo-classical phase at the moment. p
  

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