Tag: politics
group name: criticscorner
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June 09, 2006 03:05 PM EDT --
I had the opportunity to see former Canadian Ambassador and the Secretary General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS Stephen Lewis speak recently. He is a man of almost unparalleled eloquence, grace, . . . more
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June 23, 2008 06:51 PM EDT --
When I was eighteen years old, I didn't want to go to college. High-school with its petty dramas, popularity contests, disenfranchisement (both economic and social), and utter and undeniable . . . more
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May 07, 2006 01:01 PM EDT --
Where lie eternity's mansions?
Do they loom within the nuclei of atoms?
Unchanged while civilizations die?
Even 4.5 billion rings around the sun
Is not eternity.
Or is it,
For this world . . . more
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June 22, 2006 02:39 AM EDT --
Okay, this is how it works: Read the scenario, answer the question, and then use the follow-up and other people's comments to reaffirm or change your position.
The Scenario: . . . more
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June 28, 2007 09:27 PM EDT --
I have always found it bitterly amusing to observe how the current administration changes its rationale for doing things, especially when these things come under public, congressional or international . . . more
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April 24, 2006 11:10 AM EDT --
for Maureen Sullivan Stemberg, in grief and greening
A purple line draws itself, criss-
crossing paths on Cartesian plane.
The sun's out today. Hello, sun!
Please warm the air, my windowpane.
. . . more
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November 07, 2006 04:50 PM EST --
Being election day I thought this would be a fun game. Let's see how long we can go thinking of ways to annoy poll workers
My way, as you walk up to the table and they ask your name, look flustered . . . more
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June 11, 2006 01:48 PM EDT --
For Dr. Jay David Atlas, philosopher. With special thanks to Ed Nudelman for invaluable suggestions in the rewriting of this poem. The accompanying photos are from the Moby Dick Hunt ride . . . more
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July 07, 2006 06:40 PM EDT --
FOR THE SPANISH PEOPLE
(Author's Note: Early on the morning of March 11, 2004, three days before Spain's national elections, a local group of jihadist terrorists with tenuous links . . . more
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August 28, 2006 07:03 PM EDT --
They don't make dinosaurs anymore
At lest not much around here
Between running out and spilling out
We always get stuck with the bill
Do we really need all those lights on?
Can't we lower our . . . more
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October 24, 2006 12:13 AM EDT --
I could never be a candidate for any political office. I'm too honest. If I lie, it shows on my face. Many that run for office, have lying, down to an art form. They can do it without so much . . . more
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April 23, 2006 05:11 PM EDT --
*Note: This is from the Lamar Soutter Newsletter. Past newsletters can be found here.
Author's Note:
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August 29, 2007 07:14 PM EDT --
For my friend and fellow poet Nicholas K./ Magi, who inspires me with his darkly comic but cosmically redemptive vision of human beings 'twixt animal and angel, barely aware of their natural surroundings . . . more
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October 09, 2006 04:17 AM EDT --
A few nights ago I was reading my daily news online. It was a featured piece on Yahoo. I was quite surprised to find a very naughty typo. Of course, the journalist's spell checker . . . more
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September 05, 2006 08:32 PM EDT --
A Point of View
The American Penchant for Language Brevity.
I have some interesting thoughts about the ongoing controversy surrounding the English language. I came to the United States in the spring . . . more
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November 29, 2006 07:55 PM EST --
A point of View as seen by an Independent witness. Please read to the end. Thanks.
I mentioned in my Part I article of a couple of weeks ago that this was the time for me to talk about issues that . . . more
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February 13, 2007 02:11 PM EST --
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders… All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism . . . more
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March 26, 2007 09:22 PM EDT --
I picked up the Cornford edition of this book, which was laying moldering on my basement bookshelf and reread the thing. What an inspiration! Plato, through dialogue, including Socrates and . . . more
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August 24, 2006 10:31 AM EDT --
This is a response to Kevin Cho that I believe deserves to be a separate essay.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976779496
Kevin,
This is a well-written essay. Thank you for your . . . more
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June 26, 2006 09:43 PM EDT --
America is a land of immigrants. Immigrants who conquered the North American Continent in order for other immigrants to settle and freely practice their religion -- much to the chagrin of this country's . . . more
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