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Demographic inequality: The boys are wanted, the girls aborted By Isabelle Attané

Le Monde August 2006 Number of men per 100 women Europe: 92.7 North America (US & Canada): 96.9 Latin America: 97.5 Oceania: 99.5 Africa: 99.8 Asia: 103.9 China: 105.6 India: … Continue reading

16 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

From a year ago, this article seemed apposite in light of current contrivances of terror

Dance of deception By James M. Wall Christian Century Magazine | 9 August 2005 Among the messages of sympathy that poured into London following the July 7 bombings were condolences … Continue reading

16 August, 2006 · 1 Comment

Kerblog: latest cartoons from Mazen Kerbaj

    Mazen Kerbaj, 2006 Kerblog 20 bombs in less than one minute on the southern suburbs while i am writing that the war is over

15 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Beirut, modern jazz and the new Middle East By Nizar Ghanem

Common Ground News August 2006 There is a kind of beauty in jazz, a broken beauty, so-to-speak, contradictory in nature yet very complex. New things are discovered while listening to … Continue reading

14 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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