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Lesley Riddoch: We need to teach our children the value of risk

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Published Date: 16 February 2009
POLITICIANS and journalists should be grateful to bankers. With their greedy, thoughtless, spendthrift ways, they have surely replaced hacks and MSPs as the least trusted professionals. Last week, though, the money men encountered competition – from personal injury lawyers warning schools to ban snowball fights or run the risk of litigation.
This is ludicrous. You don't have to be Miss Smilla to have feelings for snow. Danish writer Peter Høeg wrote about the infinite variety of the white stuff in his 1992 classic novel and Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow hasn't been out of print since. P...



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  • Last Updated: 15 February 2009 9:02 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Lesley Riddoch
 
 

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