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Saddam should have been studied, not executed - Los Angeles Times
Richard Dawkins argues persuasively that sparing Hussein and studying his makeup could have provided valuable research.
(tags: history politics psychology war iraq philosophy science society)
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Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran - Sunday Times
(tags: news israel war iran islam nuclear)
BBC NEWS | UK | Cartoons protester found guilty
A British Muslim has been found guilty of soliciting murder during a London rally against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.
(tags: terrorism crime justice UK Britain Islam islamism Islamification police politics)
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Saturday, January 6, 2007
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Saturday, January 6, 2007
From The Good New Network
Imagine an elderly choral group of singers aged 73-100. Now imagine that group belting out songs by the Rolling Stones, The Clash or Talking Heads. Meet The American Young @ Heart Chorus. It was started in 1982 by seniors in a home for the aged in Northampton, Massachusetts, and included elders [...]
Somewhere Out There is Our Forever
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Wednesday, January 3, 2007
From Father to Son, Last Words to Live By - New York Times
Heart rending story of a soldier’s journal written for his infant son.
(tags: psychology news war manhood masculinity fatherhood excellent)
Where Work Is a Religion, Work Burnout Is Its Crisis of Faith — New York Magazine
Good article on burnout and the ravages of contemporary work [...]
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
From Climbing Mt. Improbable:[Image: Matthew Putney, for the LA Times].
On the front page of the LA Times today, greeting the new year, is a story about a man with a plan in Iowa: ‘Surrounded by cornfields that stretch to the horizon,’ we read, ‘in a place where molehills pass for mesas, avid outdoorsman Don Briggs [...]
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
From Literary Review comes a great review of Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews By David Pryce-Jones
As I write, it is exactly a year since the desolate banlieues of France erupted in an orgy of violence, on a scale which had not been seen for generations. At the time, these riots were blamed on [...]