Feb 07 2011
Best college essay ever? By Valerie Strauss Posted at 7:00 AM ET, 02/ 7/2011 … Over the years that I have covered education, I’ve repeatedly been sent the following college essay with different stories about its origin. It was said to be a real essay, a fake, a contest submission. After receiving it again recently, …
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Feb 06 2011
Ringside: Again, spin doctors distort Reagan legacy By Paul Davies, Deputy Editorial Page Editor Posted on Sun, Feb. 6, 2011 In an attempt to point to his many accomplishments, Ronald Reagan referenced John Adams, who said, “Facts are stubborn things.” But Reagan, then 77 years old, muffed the line and said that “facts are stupid things.” …
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Feb 06 2011
The following is in response to a guest editorial by [name deleted], in today’s “In my opinion” section of the Sentinel Record. The full text of his “Without doubt, a Christian nation” is included in the comments section below. There is also a passing reference to a short letter, also in today’s paper (and also in …
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Feb 05 2011
John Sagherian, Regional Director for YFCI/MENA, sent an email from Beirut night before last. Attached was an earlier version of the report that follows, from his friend Nabeel Jabbour. Dr. Jabbour has just sent me an update, along with his permission to share it here on “Blues for Levantium Lost.” Regardless of the particulars (and …
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Feb 05 2011
We all helped suppress the Egyptians. So how do we change? By Johann Hari, Friday, 4 February 2011 The old slogan from the 1960s has come true: the revolution has been televised. The world is watching the Bastille fall on 24/7 rolling news. An elderly thug is trying to buy and beat and tear-gas himself enough …
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Feb 05 2011
Exhausted, scared and trapped, protesters put forward plan for future By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 5 February 2011 Caged yesterday inside a new army cordon of riot-visored troops and coils of barbed wire – the very protection which Washington had demanded for the protesters of Tahrir Square – the tens of thousands of young Egyptians demanding Hosni …
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Feb 05 2011
Every revolution has its rules. Ignore them and the fire will burn out By Neal Ascherson, Saturday, 5 February 2011 From Tahrir Square, television brings us two sorts of image. The close-ups of men mopping blood from their broken heads, cowled women shaking their fists at heaven, boys with dilated eyes shrieking that they will stay …
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