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...Westerners like to think terrorists hate us because of our freedom and our money. But that rationale ignores political reality. We should determine what we are doing politically that is strengthening hatred, and then we can truly start fighting terrorism. Of course we will always need the military and a strong defense, but to use armed force without examining the underlying causes for attacks is not enough, especially in this fight. Christos Talanoez London...
...Thousands of civilians fled their homes as rival factions of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam clashed in the eastern Batticaloa district, threatening the 2002 cease-fire between the government and the Tigers. The country already faced fresh political turmoil as President Chandrika Kumaratunga's United People's Freedom Alliance won parliamentary elections but failed to achieve an outright majority, forcing it to find new coalition partners. Neck and Neck INDONESIA Preliminary results from the parliamentary election showed President Megawati Sukarnoputri's governing Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the former ruling Golkar party battling for first...
...Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder No reading list of South African books would be complete without Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country or Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom. But here are more recent works to read before your visit. The Other Side of Silence (Vintage) by prolific author André Brink follows the journey - physical and emotional - of a young German woman who travels to southwest Africa, where she confronts chauvinistic settlers, a harsh desert landscape...
Producing a student’s work is fun in that it’s always interesting working directly with the creator of the work, and you can often have more freedom, but famous playwrights generally tend to write tighter plays. How drained I feel after a performance depends on the show. Definitely all shows leave you a little tired, but some more so than other. The Effect of Gamma Rays for example was quite draining, physically involving a lot of screaming and running across stage and having convulsions and mentally requiring me to get inside the mind...
...oversimplified economic argument is that it reduces human life and labor to commodities. Empire brings wealth—but to whom, and how is it shared? What is the “value” of wealth if it is not gotten in a free society? Can we jettison freedom and equality, old-fashioned virtues as they are? What aspects of humanity get shoved aside in the pursuit of empire? History is important because it shows that society cannot be reduced to those terms; history is not—as Ferguson suggested—reducible...