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July 23, 2006
dispatch from Beirut
Journalist Robert Fisk delivers a thoughtful and impassioned dispatch from Lebanon, describing the senseless and unjustified destruction of a noble and resilient nation.
"What does this act of destruction tell us about Israel? Or about ourselves?"
Seattle Times; 23 July, 2006; p C1; 'The empire leaves Beirut to burn'
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July 21, 2006
Chinese Daredevil
Mr. Chen Guangcheng is blind acupuncturist who has become one of China's most prominent legal advocates.
Chen is self-taught. The Chinese call him the "barefoot lawyer."
He has created a stir in Beijing by working with poor farmers in eastern China. Mostly to stop forced sterilizations of couples who have already had one child.
He is currently in jail awaiting trial on charges of unlawful assembly.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer; 21 July, 2006; p A6; 'Blind Chinese activist fights for rights - and lands in jail'
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July 16, 2006
this just in . . .
Not that this fact is, um, Controversial . . . but . . . well the title of this news story says it all . . .
'Spanish, not English, were the first immigrants to come here';
Seattle Post-Intelligencer; 16 July, 2006; p C4
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