There is no supporting evidence for this piece of gossip, and it does not seem very likely that it has any foundation, especially as it refers to 1765, when Sandwich was a Cabinet minister and very busy. There is no doubt, however, that he was the real author of the sandwich, in its original form using salt beef, of which he was very fond. The alternative explanation is that he invented it to sustain himself at his desk, which seems plausible since we have ample evidence of the long hours he worked from an early start, in an age when dinner was the only substantial meal of the day, and the fashionable hour to dine was four o'clock.

When the Temple stood, Hillel used to combine matzah and bitter herbs in a sandwich and eat them together, doing as the Torah says: They shall eat the Passover offering together with matzah and bitter herbs.

Eating the matzah and marror [bitter herbs] sandwiched together as one, indicates a profound appreciation of God's behind-the-scenes direction of our world. Marror represents the bitterness of our slavery and exile. Matzah denotes dual concepts. It was the unleavened poor man's bread that we ate as slaves in Egypt. But it was also the bread of our freedom, which we had to finish baking before it had time to rise, because God decreed that the time for us to be redeemed was now. Eating marror and matzah together symbolizes our recognition that God is always with the Jewish People — in times of exile and in times of salvation.

With financial assistance from the UN Development Programme and the British government, media practitioners drew up the plan, unveiled on Thursday, that would allow media consumers to register complaints about inaccurate news stories with a media mediator. If the mediator's investigation finds an error, he may ask for a retraction and an apology to be published or broadcast. More serious cases would be referred to a panel of inquiry.

Bill Gates's baby certainly doesn't follow the usual script in selecting staff, as illustrated in William Poundstone's forthcoming book, How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle (Little, Brown). The Redmond, Washington-based behemoth gets some 12,000 résumés monthly; if lucky enough to be plucked from the herd, an aspiring 'Softie journeys to headquarters for a day-long interview mill. Current employees pummel supplicants with confounding math and logic puzzles, occasionally jacking up anxiety levels with openly rude behavior.

They also volley an eccentric type of non-quantitative question, resembling a Rorschach blot or a Zen-koan parody: How would you make an M&M? Which U.S. state would you remove? How would you design Bill Gates' bathroom? After long hours of straining the mind's muscles to the limit, the exhausted candidate may feel he's not only been asked how to move Mount Fuji, but lugged it across Honshu on his back.

"Some of these questions aren't brainteasers per se, but more like guesstimates," Lerner explains. "They might ask, 'How many traffic lights are there in Manhattan?' They might not have the right answer, but they want to see how a person would go about estimating the number. And then they might say, 'OK, can you give me another way you might come to that estimate?'"

Although Edwin Sambolah is fluent in English, his brother Gerald, who arrived more recently, is not. Rather, Gerald speaks Krio – a language peculiar to Sierra Leone. Therefore, he requested the assistance of a Krio interpreter, and one was obtained after some difficulty. The resulting testimony gave rise to much controversy during the trial...

Defense counsel objected that Krio "is not some kind of language that one goes to a university and studies" and that it is "nothing more than a Patois [sic]... and English with a bad accent." In addition, defense counsel raised continual objections to the interpreter's translations of the witness's remarks. He argued that certain words of the witness were recognizable as English, that the interpreter merely paraphrased the English words, and that such paraphrasing was incorrect... In counsel's view, no interpreter was necessary, and the jury should have been instructed that they could consider Gerald Sambolah's testimony as they heard it from [his] mouth and not as translated by the interpreter.

The problem in this case is that Krio, in light of the history of Sierra Leone, contains many English words, albeit in combination with some native expressions. Thus, in listening to Gerald Sambolah's testimony in court, it was apparent that much, though by no means all, of what he said seemed recognizable as English. Indeed, as noted by American journalist and author Bill Bryson in The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way, in listening to "the many English-based Creoles in the world, such as Krio... there is the thorny problem of deciding whether a person is speaking English or something that is like English but is really a quite separate language."

[S]ome defendants and witnesses are likely to speak only Krio, the lingua franca of Sierra Leone, or a tribal language. Because there are relatively few languages spoken in Sierra Leone, it would not be a large burden for the SCSL to provide translation services to both defendants and witnesses, as do the ICTR and ICTY [...]

Translating into more accessible languages [also] increases the likelihood that the population will understand, and thus support, the work of the SCSL. Under Article 17(4)(f), the accused has the right to an interpreter "if he or she cannot understand or speak the language used in the Special Court." While this is a good beginning, translation should be expanded so that ordinary Sierra Leoneans can be informed about the Court and understand its proceedings.

"Many times we find odd jobs like doing the laundry or cleaning around the house, but the women often refuse to pay and call the police on us instead," said one of the women who wait by the Dutch Reformed Church in an interview with Mmegi.

"We could never cheat Zimbabweans. These people are our lifeblood. Batswana would rather queue up to offload stock or furniture, but not work with the mortar and Zimbabweans are a ready labour," said a manager at the company. However she pleaded with this paper not to publish her company name as that would mean closure of business for them when the police come to their premises to arrest immigrants.