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What philosophical thesis do you think it most important to combat?In the post-Che and post-911 era as we all attempt to figure out how to co-habit one large world, this is an interesting and challenging opinion.
The idea that the root cause of terrorism lies in legitimate grievances.
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| What's your favorite Ang Lee movie? Pushing Hands The Wedding Banquet Eat Drink Man Woman Sense and Sensibility Ice Storm Ride with the Devil Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Chosen Hulk Brokeback Mountain Lust, Caution Take Woodstock Life of Pi (in production) | What's your favorite Michael Crichton book? A Case of Need Andromeda Strain Five Patients Terminal Man Jurassic Park The Great Train Robbery Eaters of the Dead Congo Sphere Travels (one of my favorites) Jurassic Park Rising Sun Disclosure The Lost World Airframe Timeline Prey State of Fear Next |
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The dramatic and oft-criticized Guggenheim Museum is fifty years old this week. Oh how the artistes excoriated Frank Lloyd Wright's design and how the pundits and doomsayers predicted it would have no audience and never last. Ha to them and happy birthday, SRG!!!!Labels: anniversaries, places
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| Toni Braxton Vladimir Putin Oliver North Heinrich Himmler Louis Leakey Andy Devine | John Cougar Mellencamp Yo-Yo Ma Joe Hill R. D. Laing Desmond Tutu Niels Bohr |
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| Jenny Lind Le Corbusier Rebecca Lobo Helen Willis Moody Carol Lombard | Thor Heyerdahl Britt Ekland Gerry Adams George Westinghouse (alternating current, not fridge) Stephanie Zimbalist |
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Celebrity crossword enthusiast and breast cancer survivor Christina Applegate is the 2009 Ambassador for Lee National Denim Day (this Friday, Oct. 2, 2009), a day to raise awareness about breast cancer issues as well as raise money for the Women's Cancer Programs of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), including Christina's own foundation, Right Action For Women. They're asking for $5 donations. I'm giving a little more. Go here to donate. Thanks.I wonder what the chances are of my firm letting us wear denim on Friday? Hmm....
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"Whew...hot debate over the Statutory [sic] Rapist Polanski. 45 year old man plies a 13yr old w/drugs & Liquor and anally & orally penetrates her w/o her consent is a RAPIST....We hunt down 75 year old Nazis. We must protect our children."Just as a point of information and law, the rape was not statutory. The lesser charge to which Polanski was allowed to plea was not statutory because no one suggested it had been consensual sex reworded as statutory rape because of the girl's age. In open court he He acknowledged that he had drugged, sodomized and raped a 13-year-old girl despite her verbalized requests to the contrary.
(1) Should a person's talent, fame and and money be tickets to freedom from legal responsibility for one's actions?Further reading:
(2) Should a victim's success in putting a life back together be what it takes to let a perpetrator off the hook?
(3) And if time eradicates the need to punish personal and heinous crime, why punish anyone for such offenses? Why not just put them on a desert island - or let them go away to Europe until the intensity of the moment passes?
(4) But why is Polanski being re-custody-ed now? It's never been a mystery even to casual readers of newspapers and magazines where he was, particularly when he showed up at various award ceremonies during the 31 years since his conviction?
(5) If politics makes strange bedfellows, what do you call it when Woody Allen (whose films are often unarguably brilliant but whose personal life has left something to be, er, desired) is among those publicly entreating the two countries to release Polanski and allow him to get on with his life?
(6) How much fame and talent means a person can commit crimes at will?
(7) And what about the girl's mother? Why wasn't she charged with aiding the crime? What on earth could her plan have been as she dropped off her 13-year-old at the house of two famously drug-taking and sexually adventurous womanizers??
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Smith may well be the most prolific writer since pen and paper were invented. His several well-received, popular, clever and nicely written series comprise 20 books thus far, among them:Labels: book blogs, books, writing
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On 1 September 2009, a special "Winton train" set off from the Prague Main railway station. The train, consisting of an original locomotive and carriages used in the 1930s, headed to London via the original Kindertransport route. On board the train were several surviving "Winton children" and their descendants, who were welcomed by Sir Nicholas in London. The occasion marked the 70th anniversary of the intended last Kindertransport which was due to set off on 1 September 1939 but never did because of the outbreak of the Second World War. At the train's departure, Sir Nicholas Winton's statue was unveiled at the railway station.It's dreadful to separate families but many if not most of these children would have died in eastern Europe had English generosity in accepting so many children not have been there. In fact, apparently none of their family members survived.
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