Victims were usually accused of sorcery, theft or poisoning.

His opponents cavalierly dismiss the affair, with the deputy head of President Leonid Kuchma's administration suggesting that Yushchenko should hire a food taster.

To escape from want we are told we must embrace illegality. To promote the truth, we are told that old crimes even the beheading of a journalist and the poisoning of our president must not be closely examined.

America s pharmaceutical industry, which wields considerable clout with the office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), has succeeded in foisting on other countries an unbalanced intellectual property regime, which, designed to fight generic drugs, puts profit ahead of saving lives.