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Jun 30 2011

Well, well

From one of the Arab world’s most insightful and eloquent political spokesmen — perhaps his best ever!  Rami Khouri highlights a (potentially) very significant and promising new direction being taken by some influential elements of the Palestinian national…  [more]

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Jun 28 2011

A little piece of me dies

Is America’s plight so terrible that it would lurch this far?

By Matthew Norman, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 … Lovers of sledghammer irony, stand by for a doozy. Patience is required, while the odds are both fairly long and mortifyingly…  [more]

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Jun 26 2011

Forgive them

Tales of the Demonic

By Richard Beck, 6.25.2011 … Last year I was sitting in the backyard typing away on my laptop. It was one of those wonderful mornings where I’m working outside with a cup of coffee and the…  [more]

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Jun 25 2011

Hound of heaven

Faith @ Work: Is God present in our daily lives?

By J. Douglas Holladay, 09:48 AM ET, 06/23/2011 … Hubris and arrogance should have little quarter in the lives of those with animating and authentic faith; yet I have observed…  [more]

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Jun 25 2011

Least among us

Them That’s Not Shall Lose

By Charles M. Blow, June 24, 2011 … “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” James Baldwin penned that line more than 50 years ago, but…  [more]

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Jun 24 2011

We need dead trees

How to survive the age of distraction

By Johann Hari, Friday, 24 June 2011 … In the 20th century, all the nightmare-novels of the future imagined that books would be burnt. In the 21st century, our dystopias imagine a world…  [more]

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Jun 22 2011

Realm of demonization

The Anti-Muslim Inner Circle

By Robert Steinback, Intelligence Report, Summer 2011, Issue Number: 142 Illustrations by Bri Hermanson … The apparent recent surge in popular anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States has been driven by a surprisingly small and, for…  [more]

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