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...climate change conference was obviously a waste of time. World leaders have obviously - or conveniently - forgotten the meaning of the word consequence. But isn't it strange that the worst weather in decades to hit Europe and the eastern U.S. occurred immediately after the conference? Could this not be a message to those same world leaders? Ian Vincent, NAIROBI
...swim just four days before the latest attack? For that matter, why did much of Cape Town? (We didn't arrive until midday, and by then the beach was so full we had to lay out our towels on some concrete steps.) It wasn't that we'd forgotten about the sharks. As we set up our little beach camp, I regaled our guests with a story about the legendary "Sub," a monstrous great white that, as some accounts have it, lived in False Bay in the 1970s and '80s. Sub was said to show up on sonar and enjoy...
...should not be forgotten that, when Bush invaded Iraq, millions of people protested against it. One of the many arguments was that the war would take attention and resources away from Afghanistan. If the U.S. had devoted the treasure that it spent in Iraq to bringing Afghanistan into the modern age, it would not be so overstretched now. One is reminded of the adage "A stitch in time saves nine." Obama has to struggle with the result. Greg Franks Sydney...
...often forgotten presence of Harvard in this wild and crazy chapter of American history is really something. According to a review in the San Francisco Chronicle, Lattin’s book indicates that then-University President Nathan M. Pusey's '28 decision to fire Alpert and Leary essentially mandated that San Francisco (where the pair headed after leaving dainty old Cambridge) would be the holy seat of counterculture...
...Best forgotten classic...