2012 archive
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Feb 10 2012
Pietà
World Press Photo of the year awarded to Samuel Aranda
By David R Arnott, 2/10/2012 … The international jury of the 55th annual World Press Photo Contest announced Friday that it had selected a picture by Samuel Aranda as the… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/02/10/pieta/
Feb 08 2012
Patron saint of hate
What To Do About Violent Biblical Texts?
By Philip Jenkins, 02/ 3/2012 4:11 pm … Every few weeks, it seems, Islam makes headlines in the U.S., whether the topic is a television show like All-American Muslim, a state prohibiting… [more]
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Feb 05 2012
It is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions
U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners
By Glenn Greenwald, Sunday, Feb 5, 2012 8:51 AM 16:08:00 CST … On December 30 of last year, ABC News reported on a 16-year-old Pakistani boy, Tariq Khan, who was killed with his… [more]
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Feb 05 2012
He’s just a Mormon
The ultimate Mormon male
By Naomi Zeveloff, Sunday, Feb 5, 2012 2:30 PM 15:58:29 CST … If there is one single impediment to Mitt Romney’s campaign, it is his utter inscrutability, his perplexing failure to schmooze with voters. Romney… [more]
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Feb 05 2012
No one knows what to do
The opposition in Syria needs our help, and now
By Joan Smith, Sunday 05 February 2012 … Here is the brutal truth about Syria: no one knows what to do. Six months after Barack Obama said bluntly that Bashar… [more]
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Feb 05 2012
An extraordinary letter
The slave who spoke from beyond the grave
By Jonathan Brown, Saturday 04 February 2012 … An extraordinary letter written by an emancipated slave to his former owner ridiculing his request for him to return to work on a… [more]
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