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Today, humanitarians are taking their annual time out to commiserate about the appalling state of the 12 million refugees now mired in limbo and abject poverty in refugee camps all over the world. But, on this issue, a picture is worth a thousand words – even for an impudent and irrepressible wordsmith like me. Besides,… Read more.
Well, so much for the reputed quizzical insouciance of the French when it comes to marital (or, more notably, extramarital) affairs. Because today every French newspaper is emblazoned with headlines about the intriguing split between Segolene Royal, the Socialist candidate I endorsed here in last month’s French presidential election, and Francois Hollande, the leader of… Read more.
Given my chronicling of all major developments in the Duke Lacrosse rape case, it would be remiss of me not to comment on the fact that “persecutor“ Michael B. Nifong was disbarred on Saturday. His disbarment came at the end of a week-long trial, which featured Nifong as the star witness for his own defense.During… Read more.
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A month ago today, I recorded my first podcast. But because I was cajoled into doing it by dear friends (who thought I had a “perfect radio voice”), I set a firm condition for future recordings: I ended that podcast by declaring that it would be my first and last recording – unless a critical… Listen.
One of the great ironies of my life is that an English girl in America introduced me to African literature. The book she gave me, which sealed my abiding affection for this genre, is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe of Nigeria. Nobody familiar with his work would be surprised that I think one of… Read more.
In a September 2005 article entitled Yahoo! becomes China’s most-favored thought police, I lamented, yet again: …how odious and hypocritical it was that American corporations that exploited democratic freedoms to make their names and untold fortunes are now collaborating with a totalitarian regime to deny people in the most populous country on earth similar human… Read more.
…The Caribbean is not a terrorism hotbed and I hope this incident would not trigger paranoia in the U.S. government agencies and that they would not start profiling of people from our region and causing problems for them….We see this as an aberration. [This is the essence of an extraordinary plea Guyana’s president, Bharrat Jagdeo,… Read more.
It’s very likely that the first time most of you heard about Genarlow Wislon’s extraordinary 2-year legal nightmare was during a 20-second report on TV last night. But some of us have been monitoring (and agitating in support of) the fight to free Genarlow that has been raging in the Blogosphere and on talk radio… Read more.
No doubt the water-cooler chatter today in offices all over America, if not all around the world, today will be dominated by excited reflections on last night’s final episode of The Sopranos. But, with TV critics having already screen-tested scenarios for the climactic scene – with each of the show’s main characters being variously featured… Read more.
