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Apr.07.2013
I once read a movie poster which said: "Just when you thought it was safe to be dead." I'm guessing it was not a very good film. However, after forty years of supposed rest, the Nobel poet is being unearthed to find out how he died. So much for R.I.P. [DE]
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Nov.03.2012
Afghanistan just held highly successful, peaceful elections. Democracy and freedom now have established a beachhead in the Islamic Middle East. This is a part of the world that was once controlled by the Taliban. Evil hijacked a great religion and kept Muslims in bondage. This has now been replaced...
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Oct.09.2009
Stephen --
This morning, Michelle and I awoke to some surprising and humbling news. At 6 a.m., we received word that I'd been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.
To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this...
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Oct.09.2009
I don't believe in hope. I think hope and religious faith are the two most insidious and cold blooded of human conventions:each offer up the unattainable and each incur endless suffering. I grew up in a country whose ideologues exploited religious conviction to validate the most dehumanising form...
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