Tag Archives: International

...Ms. Jean said. "I've never been a token, sir, and I never will be."

Truth-telling: a noble, dangerous, lonely existential business in a world where people will kill to repress the truth, or in retaliation for those who refuse to be repressed. Such is the brave, sad, infuriating story of Steven Vincent, 49, art critic-turned war correspondent, who was murdered in Basra, Iraq, on …

Last Friday, July 29, 2005, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that posting and selling instructions for illegal activity such as “breaking into houses, making bombs, and creating false credit card numbers” is legal – as long as you don’t do the illegal activity yourself. Story here. This hearing was called …

Friends don’t always have to agree with each other, but a little understanding goes a long way.

..the words ground zero were used in reference to the impact site of a nuclear bomb.

They have been selling seeds. Nothing more.

...being stressed is probably the sanest reaction possible.

...when peace is finally worked out for the people of Ireland ... it will have been in spite of the I.R.A. not because of it.

Words usually have something to hide—you have to shake them until the top pops off and some revelation tumbles out..."

A 27 year-old Islamist radical of joint Dutch-Moroccan nationality, Mohammed Bouyeri, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole today for committing a terrorist act by murdering Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh last November. He was also convicted of the attempted murder of several police officers and …