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	European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights - News report from a UK-based campaigning support group for Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Covers Cherie Booth's representation to the UN's Human Rights Committee on behalf of four (Australian ) Northern Territory Aboriginal people.
	Guardian Politics Special Report - The Guardian on "Cherie-gate" (late 2002). The 10 Downing Street Press Office was forced to retract a denial that Peter Foster, a convicted con-man and boyfriend of Cherie Blair's "lifestyle guru", had helped in the purchase of two flats in Bristol. Possibly damaged any ambitions of Cherie Booth Q.C. (Blair) for high official legal office. Links to several Guardian/Observer articles.
	Cherie Booth, Q.C. - Biography page at Matrix Chambers, the practice Booth cofounded. Biography, links to notable cases and speeches as well as extracts from law directory entries.

'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Blair, Cherie Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Blair, Cherie It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow Blair, Cherie If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi Blair, Cherie A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey Blair, Cherie "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin Blair, Cherie the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Blair, Cherie I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash Blair, Cherie Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey Blair, Cherie "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager Blair, Cherie blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea Blair, Cherie "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry Blair, Cherie It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Blair, Cherie If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Blair, Cherie The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 Blair, Cherie "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Blair, Cherie I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene Blair, Cherie "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Blair, Cherie There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Blair, Cherie If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Blair, Cherie People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Blair, Cherie Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde Blair, Cherie Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |