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...finding it hard, even 24 hours later, to close my jaw after reading your story on Tony Blair's faith [June 9]. How dare Michael Elliott refer to "the chattering classes of London'' who think of Blair as smug. I think you'll find this is a common view, echoed from Lands End to John O'Groats, and with very good reason. Blair's deeds - and those of his unelected inner circle of cronies - have left the British public with little faith in politics and politicians, let alone religion. Colin Wright, County Down, Northern Ireland...
...look in the consumer electronic space we are the largest, Wal-mart is second and I believe Circuit City is third. So we are watching with great interest Blockbuster's action. We've got a point of view of what we are trying to do for the consumer and we've got to try to do that better whether Circuit is sold or not. So there is not a lot we can do about that, but it is a big force in our industry...
...anything we do today that we take for granted and all of it came from some individual-usually a misunderstood angry individual-who was sitting there saying 'why wont you do this?' and was having trouble being heard. In almost all the cases, two things happen: the point of view that you now cherish as normal was unusual and it was hard for people to hear; and [the person] had trouble getting his or her voice...
MICHELLE OBAMA to guest-host The View. Fist bumps all around...
...stories are set in sub-Saharan Africa--Rwanda, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya. Akpan's method is to present scenes of extreme violence and degradation from a child's point of view. A young boy watches his sister practice prostitution; a man sells his niece and nephew into slavery; a girl looks on as her Tutsi father kills her Hutu mother with a machete. And so on. These stories are so frightening and upsetting, and offer so little in the way of closure or consolation, that you wonder what the point is of subjecting yourself to them--they exist at the border...