‘O’ my, it’s a fund-raising note from Barack

Source: New York Post

To my good friend Barack, Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mr. President. You made my day with that powerful and uplifting package you sent. You can imagine my excitement as I ripped open the envelope and an autographed pict ...
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In the Garden of Eden, I was changed forever

Source: Pocono Record

When I was 20, I trekked across town from Point Park College to the Peace Corps office on the other side of Pittsburgh. That day I wanted to go somewhere, anywhere, and help people. They gently told me that there really wa ...
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TREATY IS A CYNICAL DECEPTION TO PROVIDE A CUSHION FOR CAPITALISTS

Source: Independent.ie

NO says Graham Shepherd, who views Fiscal Stability as Featherbed instead While gorging on the fat of the land a few years back there were two words not to be mentioned. "Socialism" was one and "capitali ...
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Memorial Day: Among Post-9/11 Veterans, Deepening Antiwar Sentiment – OpEd

Source: Eurasia Review

Christian Science Monitor reports: Despite the end of the Iraq war and the scheduled drawdown in Afghanistan, this Memorial Day arrives against a backdrop of deepening – and some say more troublesome – antiwar senti ...
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My splendid teacher

Source: The Star Malaysia

LAST Friday, my mum broke the sad news that my childhood English teacher, Fiona Loh (pic right), had passed away that morning due to heart failure. She was not quite 61. It was shocking news, compounded by an unsettling ...
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Colorado contestants prepare for national spelling bee

Source: 9NEWS.com

DENVER - Eva Kitlen and Frank Cahill have two different styles, but they have one goal - to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. which starts on May 30th. "You really have to have a passion for what you do, ...
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What’s the time, Mr Consultant?

Source: The Star Malaysia

A funny and revealing book that demonstrates once and for all that the emperors of business have no clothes. WHILE I was reading Martin KhinÂs House Of Lies, I kept misquoting the subtitle. It is How Managemen ...
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The Barlow-Morgenstern Method, Radio 4, Saturday Reading Between the Lines, Radio 4, Tuesday

Source: The Independent

It was a surreal image: Gary Brooker, lead man of Procol Harum, playing a grand piano in the middle of a court room and singing 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'. The forensic musicologist Peter Oxendale was there. "It was staggeringly beautiful," he ...
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Finding serenity in stamps

Source: Ottawa Citizen

Serenity, a word I used in this space last Sunday to the complete confusion of a couple of readers, is something I associate with chastity, in a sense both broad and deep. Or to be more specific, with stamp collecti ...
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