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Monday Mourning
This morning a friend of mine learned some sad news. A long-time confidant of hers succumbed to cancer. When he was first diagnosed at the age of 19, he was given six months to live. Instead, he lived six years, another quarter of his short lifetime. While I never knew this young man, we have [...]
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Tags: cancer, cornice, iraq, kent goldman, shantaram
Just days before I was born, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency of the United States. And in the years that and elections that followed, only one non-incumbent candidate for the presidency has successfully run on a campaign that placed a greater emphasis on experience than change. That candidate was George H. W. Bush.
Let’s run through [...]
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This is a story which bears watching. By turns it is both depressing and fascinating.
Thirty-two years of precedence have disappeared in a flash. It is both a lost opportunity to embrace a long-term perspective on the health of our planet. And it is another sad display of the utter lack of transparency of the Bush-Cheney [...]
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