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member name: Rory M.
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July 29, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
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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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February 25, 2009 07:58 PM EST --
Dictionary.com defines socialism as follows:
1. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of . . .
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July 17, 2007 09:33 AM EDT --
"The Good old hockey game is the best game you can name
and the best game you can name is the good old hockey game."
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August 07, 2007 02:01 PM EDT --
I was pondering the question which serves as the title of this piece, after participating in another conversation string here on Gather in which the idea of "common sense" was thrown out.
My . . .
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August 11, 2007 09:52 PM EDT --
The word "money" has uncertain etymological origins, though it is probably derived from the Latin (of course) moneta which was a title given to the Roman god Juno whose temple was near to the . . .
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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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October 03, 2007 10:24 PM EDT --
The American television network NBC recently carried a series entitle The Black Donnellys. One of the creators of the series (Paul Haggis) is a native of London, Ontario, a small Canadian city with . . .
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December 11, 2009 11:34 AM EST --
Silent snow
weight makes trees bow low
in submission to the old man's blow
You can listen to the rhythm of the falling rain
hear its gentle pitter patter
but when old man winter rages . . .
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July 05, 2007 11:32 PM EDT --
Mandy knew to the minute when she had first started to become suspicious: 12:43 p.m. last November 8th, a Thursday. She was running late, having intended to take a short lunch break. The sales guys were . . .
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July 18, 2007 12:26 AM EDT --
"I know that God is always on the side of right; my concern is not whether God is on our side but whether or not we are on God's side."
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November 19, 2007 02:01 PM EST --
The knee-jerk answer to this question, the one almost everyone gives without pausing even a micro-second to think about their response, the one on many people's lips much of the time, the one . . .
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November 05, 2008 02:24 AM EST --
The election of 2008 has already gone a long, long way to restoring the dream and the amazing reality of the United States of America. It has done this in numerous ways.
Race Relations: . . .
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September 16, 2007 02:23 PM EDT --
We've all heard of WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants), or YUPpies (Young Urban Professionals) or of DINKs (Dual-Income, No Kids).
Well, I have a new social acronym, one I've created . . .
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June 28, 2009 12:14 AM EDT --
Michael Jackson and I were about the same age, he being a few months older than I am. Since I was a young child I have been hearing about Michael Jackson, about his impressive musical career, his . . .
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July 08, 2007 12:13 PM EDT --
The mid-life crisis has long been widely recognized as a common stage of maturity and growth in the lives of humans.
There comes a time when a person recognizes that the time remaining to them is likely . . .
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July 15, 2007 12:22 AM EDT --
I had just turned 15 years old. the year was 1974. A friend I'd known since grade 5, when we were 10, asked me to come over to his house to listen to a new album he'd bought.
Now this . . .
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July 16, 2007 08:18 AM EDT --
What is Gather?
What does this cyber-community amount to?
There are many possible answers to these questions and many of them will be true even though they may seem contradictory. Because . . .
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July 26, 2007 09:39 PM EDT --
Often on Gather various people will post some kind of simple statement or elaborate essay outlining their position on a given issue or cultural phenomenon, staking out their position and inviting like . . .
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April 05, 2009 03:12 PM EDT --
Amongst people of Irish descent, most of whom are fair of skin and light or red of hair, there is a distinct sup-group with darker hair and complexion, almost swarthy, sometimes referred to as the Black . . .
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