Life is like a hazy mirror
We’ll never know why some parts of the human family get more than their share of natural disasters such as tsunamis.
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Elizabeth to Santa: sing every day
Merry Christmas, don’t get too busy, and remember: don’t eat too many cookies, because you still have to get around next year.
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America enters a minefield
I hate politics. You can’t trust anyone. I mean, if I was Maqtada Al-Sadr, the dangerously political Shiite cleric who’s jostling for position in Iraq now, I wouldn’t trust my grandmother.
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To Santa from a despairing Yahoo
Thanks for that gift from last year, the Gulliver’s Travels book. Very nice choice. The Houyhnhnms, those horse-like characters, were so bright, so noble. And those savage Yahoos: so dim, so lost. Poor Gulliver couldn’t see himself in them.
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Independent reasoning is at stake
If we are in a so-called war of civilizations, the biggest battlefields may not be in places like Iraq but in the classroom.
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Press freedom a bitter battle in Third World
Ever wonder why you don’t live in a George Orwell novel, a place where up is down if the right person says it’s so; a place that sooner or later, like a rotten empire, will always implode under the weight of its own self-deceit?
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In Yemen, Einstein tops ‘Booosh’
George Bush and rival John Kerry could both have picked up a few good tips from the wild-haired genius.
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Islamic world slowly, surely changing
but like Western liberties we now take for granted, they won’t come overnight.
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