What did they die of? I asked. Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died. He bled and purged babies? They were two and three. He said it would break the fever. And it did. But they ... they died anyway.

In particular the power sharing and consensus mechanisms enshrined in the process have been designed to ensure that the politicians engage in a continuous balancing process . . .

But whether the bill passes in its present shape or not, it is satisfactory to note that the Bulgarian popular mind has been wrought to that condition of dissatisfaction (not unfamiliar to the British one) which is summarizable in the words that “something must be done."

Unquestionably many persons, guilty as sin, will now go free because the policeman's hands are tied, even more tied than they were as the result of similar decisions over the last five years.