Feb 10 2012
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 World Press Photo of the Year 2011. Jurors said the photo of a veiled woman …
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Feb 08 2012
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 Sharia law, or just a grandstanding platform statement in a primary. No less predictable are the …
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Feb 05 2012
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 12-year-old cousin when a car in which he was riding was hit with a missile fired …
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Feb 05 2012
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 is seen by many as hollow, robotic, as stiff as his hair-sprayed coiffure. But to me, …
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Feb 05 2012
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 al-Assad should go, and with the Arab League calling for him to resign, there is no …
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Feb 05 2012
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 Tennessee plantation after the Civil War has become an internet sensation. More than two million people …
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Feb 04 2012
Mitt Romney, the stealth tea party candidate By Theda Skocpol, January 31, 2012 … “Many tea party folks are going to find me, I believe, to be the ideal candidate,” the Republican presidential contender said in a news conference in December. “I sure hope so.” These words were uttered not by Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, …
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