Tag: mistakes
member name: Rory M.
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December 09, 2006 11:16 AM EST --
Jimmy Carter’s latest book (Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid) is causing quite a stire as various defenders of Israel scream blue-murder (or at least hint of anti-Semitism) and recently triumphant . . .
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July 14, 2007 12:51 AM EDT --
Imagine that you woke up tomorrow morning with little memory of what had come before. Let's say you still knew who you were, how to go about most of your daily tasks, but could recall almost nothing . . .
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April 10, 2009 08:25 PM EDT --
Canadian political scandals rarely receive much ink or airtime from the American media. I'm sure the reaction of most Americans to any inquiry as to the "Mulroney-Schreiber Affair" . . .
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September 10, 2007 12:12 PM EDT --
"Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
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September 28, 2006 05:15 PM EDT --
Someone remarked to me recently how ironic they found it that Germany, a country which had lost the two biggest wars in history within the last century alone, had been torn in two and governed by two opposing . . .
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September 20, 2008 02:00 AM EDT --
With the crisis in the financial markets of recent months and especially the past week, and the back-of-cocktail-napkin policy writing on the fly, there is a very big change coming to the way Americans . . .
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February 11, 2009 10:11 PM EST --
I remember my father saying that a man does his best work in his 40s. I guess I'm fucked, then.
If my best work is behind me then there are a lot of things I would have liked to accomplish that . . .
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March 16, 2007 12:55 PM EDT --
There is a tendency to compare the war in Iraq with the war in Vietnam, especially as opposition to the war continues to rise as it did during the waning years of the Vietnam war.
The question must be . . .
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February 18, 2007 12:23 PM EST --
The hot, Cuban sun was a comfort in spite of the hardship created by being forced to sit out in it for hours without rest, shade or water. It reminded Omar of home. He had spent too many years in the northern, . . .
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September 29, 2006 10:27 PM EDT --
I had just finished a 17 hour day at work and was on my way home, exhausted beyond words. The day had capped off three weeks of gruelling work to finish the project that had been assigned to me, the project . . .
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January 18, 2009 12:27 AM EST --
The sun beat down relentlessly on the cracked blacktop of the parking lot of the run down shopping mall. Shimmering waves of heat rising off the asphalt made anything more than fifty feet away seem to . . .
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April 20, 2009 01:40 PM EDT --
In recent years the phenomenon of what is commonly referred to as "Reality TV" has taken over a good deal of the broadcasting schedule for the major television networks in the USA, with bleed . . .
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January 08, 2007 11:57 PM EST --
America has never been an empire in the same way that, for example, Britain and Spain once were. Those nations established colonies around the globe from Hong Kong to North America and from The Philippines . . .
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October 08, 2006 10:30 PM EDT --
On Friday, October 6th the Toronto Star, the largest circulation daily newspaper in Canada, carried a front page story about a Canadian soldier who was wounded while fighting in Afghanistan. To his great . . .
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December 18, 2006 10:19 PM EST --
It is often said by right wing politicians and pundits that the best government is the government which governs least.
This saying is in keeping with the ideology that embraces the supremacy of the individual . . .
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January 20, 2007 01:30 PM EST --
I was leaving a grocery store this morning, you know the kind, where you have to insert a quarter to free up a shopping cart. I guess they figure that if you're going to steal a shopping cart that . . .
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February 10, 2007 02:31 AM EST --
We live in an age of rage. Think about it. There's road rage, air rage tax rage not to mention exotic forms of rage with labels like "going postal".
For some reason, this era in which we . . .
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