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PASADENA—Albert Einstein spent some of his last years stalking the wide, palm-lined avenues of this sunny town. According to local legend, he sometimes surprised students in my old school next to the California Institute of Technology by pacing through the open-air hallways while class was in session. His tenderness for children is now well-known from the letters he wrote to them. Children wrote to the famous scientist at the end of his life with questions of science, theology and life. The children were not afraid to show their ignorance to this great...
...Euphrates run through villages that knew little of Saddam's regime or of the Americans, or at least they seem to care little. They live much as their ancestors did five thousand years ago, in the fertile alluvial plains between the two rivers of Iraq, irrigating their fields beneath palm trees, washing their clothes in the river, and drifting on it in canoes, tossing large fishing nets, living at a pace that appears to have been uninterrupted since civilization began here...
...Second, imperialism pollutes the imperial nation. I grew up in Liverpool when it was one of the British Empire's great ports. Its docks were full of ships laden with palm oil and sugarcane, with liners bound for Cape Town and Colombo. You might think, to read some of imperialism's apologists, that such a familiarity with exotic climes would have bred a reverence for foreign cultures, as if every child of empire wanted to do something noble, like translate the Bhagavad Gita or teach for a year in Sierra Leone. Sadly, not so. In Britain, the imperialist adventure produced...
...called her name and Johnson walked into the six-walled semi-circle that cloaked the palm reader...
Emerging after her session, Johnson said her time with the palm reader felt more like a “discussion” than an “occult experience.” She held out her right hand and for about 10 minutes they talked about her personality traits, flexibility, eccentricity and interpersonal skills...