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Waging Peace: Dr. Robert Muller, former assistant secretary general of the United Nations, and one of the people who witnessed the founding of the U.N., says the global body is fulfilling its ultimate purpose: "Never before in the history of the world has there been a global, visible, public, viable, open dialogue and conversation about the very legitimacy of war".
posted on Mar-16-03 at 5:50 PM
The author of the worst novel ever published in the English language gamely submits to an interview by the Washington Post.
posted on Feb-19-03 at 1:01 PM
Having a hard time with Valentine's Day? Things could be worse. (warning: not for the weak of stomach.)
posted on Feb-13-03 at 11:20 PM
Stresmin: the solution to family quarrels, political debates, and difficult security council meetings.
posted on Jan-23-03 at 10:00 PM
It's thoughtful, not angry or insulting. It appears to make sense and it doesn't upset me. Is this really how they think of themselves? Required reading for the liberal opposition: A Republican's View of George Bush, Compassionate Conservative. (NYTimes, free registration required)
posted on Jan-5-03 at 12:51 PM
The CIA is back in the business of committing assasinations on foreign soil. Meanwhile, the administration still objects to Israel's policy of targeted killings because of its effect on the peace process.
posted on Nov-5-02 at 2:14 PM
There are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived in the house... Colin Powell was permitted to come into the house. Harry Belafonte starts out with a flame but then shows himself to be a more eloquent and tenacious critic of Bush policies than any Democrat on the scene. What does it tell us about the state of our two-party system that we have to rely on Rat Pack era crooners to speak out like this in public?
posted on Oct-21-02 at 7:44 AM
Beauty queens take a stand against stoning. I guess it's bad luck for Miss World that their contest this year was scheduled to take place in a country increasingly subject to Sharia law. Meanwhile Nigerian Muslim activists decry neckless nudity.
posted on Sep-17-02 at 6:04 AM
Nelson Mandela calls it like he sees it: the United States of America is a threat to world peace... Dick Cheney [and Donald] Rumsfeld...are dinosaurs, who do not want [President Bush] to belong to the modern age. His arguments are well made. But is the power of his historical perspective undermined by his forays into oversimplified racial analysis?
posted on Sep-10-02 at 7:44 PM
Apple is at work on the iPhone, if you believe John Markoff of the New York Times. Do you?
posted on Aug-18-02 at 5:39 PM
Mathematician Henrik Lenstra was intrigued by a blank space in he middle of a drawing by MC Escher. Over two years he managed to describe the mathematical structure of the drawing, project what should go in the missing space and produce an extraordanary animation of the result.
posted on Aug-6-02 at 2:38 PM
posted on Mar-16-03 at 5:50 PM
The author of the worst novel ever published in the English language gamely submits to an interview by the Washington Post.
posted on Feb-19-03 at 1:01 PM
Having a hard time with Valentine's Day? Things could be worse. (warning: not for the weak of stomach.)
posted on Feb-13-03 at 11:20 PM
Stresmin: the solution to family quarrels, political debates, and difficult security council meetings.
posted on Jan-23-03 at 10:00 PM
It's thoughtful, not angry or insulting. It appears to make sense and it doesn't upset me. Is this really how they think of themselves? Required reading for the liberal opposition: A Republican's View of George Bush, Compassionate Conservative. (NYTimes, free registration required)
posted on Jan-5-03 at 12:51 PM
The CIA is back in the business of committing assasinations on foreign soil. Meanwhile, the administration still objects to Israel's policy of targeted killings because of its effect on the peace process.
posted on Nov-5-02 at 2:14 PM
There are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived in the house... Colin Powell was permitted to come into the house. Harry Belafonte starts out with a flame but then shows himself to be a more eloquent and tenacious critic of Bush policies than any Democrat on the scene. What does it tell us about the state of our two-party system that we have to rely on Rat Pack era crooners to speak out like this in public?
posted on Oct-21-02 at 7:44 AM
Beauty queens take a stand against stoning. I guess it's bad luck for Miss World that their contest this year was scheduled to take place in a country increasingly subject to Sharia law. Meanwhile Nigerian Muslim activists decry neckless nudity.
posted on Sep-17-02 at 6:04 AM
Nelson Mandela calls it like he sees it: the United States of America is a threat to world peace... Dick Cheney [and Donald] Rumsfeld...are dinosaurs, who do not want [President Bush] to belong to the modern age. His arguments are well made. But is the power of his historical perspective undermined by his forays into oversimplified racial analysis?
posted on Sep-10-02 at 7:44 PM
Apple is at work on the iPhone, if you believe John Markoff of the New York Times. Do you?
posted on Aug-18-02 at 5:39 PM
Mathematician Henrik Lenstra was intrigued by a blank space in he middle of a drawing by MC Escher. Over two years he managed to describe the mathematical structure of the drawing, project what should go in the missing space and produce an extraordanary animation of the result.
posted on Aug-6-02 at 2:38 PM
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