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Nov.05.2008
The United States, the world, has a new President-elect.To enable a new era, he will need our goodwill. Whatever he gets wrong, he will need 'on the ground' support. He will need us not to lose faith in the primary vision.
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"People are unreasonable, illogical and self-...
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Nov.05.2008
I did not expect to get teary-eyed during Obama's acceptance speech. If it had only been his words, which were eloquent, resounding, and intelligent, I probably would not have been. It was so much more. When the cameras panned over that crowd, young and old, every race and creed imaginable, and...
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Nov.05.2008
Last night, watching the US elections unfold, I was reminded inexorably of the very first South African elections on that country's long march to "liberation."
I lived in Johannesburg for the year preceding the historic 1994 elections that finally ended apartheid, signalled most...
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Nov.03.2008
Once, when I discovered some people finding it difficult to comprehend a poem I had written, it set me thinking. At that time a line had come to mind: His shadow loomed over my naked body.What could this mean? Several things, mainly the obvious. But for me it was a simple reality...I was in the...
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Oct.30.2008
I was back in Delhi just after the 2004 US elections. In the taxi from IGI into the city, I ended up with a rather voluble Sikh driver. After enquiring after my family, job, marital status, income (usual Indian-style small talk), he asked a question that stumped me. "Madam," he asked, and...
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Oct.29.2008
America 2008 by Ananda Leeke(an excerpt from That Which Awakens Me: A Woman's Poetic Memoir)
Copyright 2008 by Madelyn C. Leeke.
My fingers are typing rapidly. They are trying to capture and transform the thoughts in my head into sentences that make sense and hopefully offer insight to those that...
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Sep.27.2008
I got an email the other day that struck me as the most logical thing I'd heard in weeks of financial meltdown. Per the email, the government should NOT bail out the financial giants, but instead take that 700 billion and divide it proportionately among every American citizen age 18 and older and...
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Sep.18.2008
America is on the fast track to economic ruin! Our government politicians are far too concerned with financial gain and far too little concerned about the long term effects of sending our technology, manufacturing companies, and American jobs to places like China and India. I can't tell you how...
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Aug.28.2008
All my life, against whites and blacks, men and women, gays and straights I have always argued that Americans need to be a tribe, a real honest to God tribe, if we are going to move forward, if we mean to survive. Everything that has ever been best about us has adhered to that notion. Every deep...
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Aug.21.2008
As we approach the seventh anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S., I am reminded of the importance of patriotism. Not the knee-jerk kind born out of fear and anger; not the wear a flag lapel pin kind that is for too many an empty gesture. No, I refer to the quiet...
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