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...depicts a Classical sparring-match of sorts. Other, simpler tombstones mark the graves of Dorothea Dix, social activist for the mentally ill, and Bernard Malamud, author of the baseball’s classic novel “The Natural.” In addition to the on-site history lesson, Mt. Auburn boasts a renowned horticultural diversity. With over 5,500 trees of nearly 700 varieties, only the most assiduous arborist will be able to identify them all. For the laymen among us, most species are labeled. Haunted or not, Mt. Auburn Cemetery is home to more than...
...latest military coup should be viewed as the strong medicine Thailand needs to make it work for a better tomorrow. The military takeover should serve as a strong warning to future rulers to respect the letter and spirit of Thailand's constitution. The current coup leaders should take a lesson from the events of 1992, when the leaders tried to hang on to the power they had grabbed and were eventually forced to leave in disgrace. Going outside the system to save the system may be somewhat unpalatable to most lovers of democracy, but in the long run it could...
...very tough. It was a Texas prison. It is a very straight-up, hard, full-out high-security prison. It was not fun at all, but it was a good lesson, and it allowed me time to wake up from being a junkie, which I think is a worse prison than being in prison because you carry it around with...
...China is building another wall, a fence along its entire border with North Korea. But even when that structure is complete, it seems unlikely that Beijing will pay much more than lip service to imposing the kind of severe sanctions that, while they would teach North Korea a lesson for its nuclear adventures, could also bring about renewed famine and the prospect of hundreds of thousands of refugees...
There's no question that there is sectarian violence now, but remember how we got to sectarian violence: al-Qaeda. That was their strategy: to kill Shia until they could generate some kind of a response. And the lesson we should have learned with 9/11 is that there may have been a time in our history when we could withdraw behind our borders and be safe and secure here at home. That day passed on 9/11. When we saw the damage that a handful of men could do--trained in the remote training camps of Afghanistan, aided and abetted...