Rhinoceros Eyes

Ben MacIntyre wrote in rose-colored-glasses form about the current events in Kenya for The Times:
“[Winston] Churchill was one such. Back in 1907, while admiring the climate, he noted that the question of ethnic tensions in Kenya was one of a herd of rhinoceros — awkward, thick-skinned and horned, with a short sight and an evil […]

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Ian Paisley, the head of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party, was recently quoted as growling in his trademark belligerent mood, “I have a fairly hard rhinoceros skin and I’ll not be skinned by the likes of you!”
This was in response to critics who, with his 82nd birthday coming up this April, have begun speculating on […]

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