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Loving Their Children More
A while back NYT columnist Tom Friedman wrote a column about the Middle East where he suggested that people of the region were going to have to decide they loved their children more than they hated each other. Maybe it hasn’t come to pass in a big way, but it may be beginning. A young…
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Banning Landmines
Four countries are now land mine free, Albania, Greece, Rwanda and Zambia. That is no small accomplishment, but many more need to join the list. Landmines destroy many lives and show a lack of respect for human rights. The 1997 International Mine Ban Treaty was ratified by 156 nations. And yet key players on the…
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A Modicum of Widsom
When Roman Polanski, the director who admitted to the statutory rape of a 13 years old 32 years ago, filed for his case to be dismissed on the ground of judicial misconduct (for which there exists at least some evidence), the Second District Court of Appeals suggested that he request to be sentenced in absentia.…
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