Tag: politics
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September 16, 2006 07:53 PM EDT --
Book Review: The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
What goes through the mind of a terrorist who is willing to strap bombs or dynamite to their body and blow themselves to bits for a political cause? . . . more
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June 25, 2006 09:32 AM EDT --
There's a new biography out on Timothy Leary by Robert Greenfield. It's reviewed by Luc Sante on the cover of today's New York Times book section. There's a great image of a grinning Leary, . . . more
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May 08, 2007 09:58 PM EDT --
You can eat a peach any day. Thanks to overnight delivery and 24-hour stores, you can buy a peach 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Some stores are open on holidays so, yes, even on Christmas . . . more
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March 21, 2007 01:34 PM EDT --
Join the Discussion and Receive a Signed Copy of A Long Way Gone
At the conclusion of his memoir, A Long Way Gone, author Ishmael Beah writes, "I would always tell people that I believe children . . . more
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January 08, 2007 03:20 PM EST --
Valerie Plame - Still "Fair Game": CIA Kills Book Deal
Over three years ago Richard Armitage, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, was the first of at least a handful of senior . . . more
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October 18, 2007 07:52 PM EDT --
On Oct. 11, the Swedish Academy announced that Doris Lessing (87) had won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Most bloggers reacted to the news by recounting meetings they have had with Lessing and by discussing . . . more
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June 11, 2007 10:26 AM EDT --
Please join us in welcoming Alex Carr to Gather.
ALEX CARR is (under her real name, Jenny Siler) the critically acclaimed author of the novels Easy Money, Iced, Shot, and Flashback. She lives with her . . . more
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August 11, 2006 11:57 PM EDT --
Please Join Our Group.
http://wtcmemorial.gather.com/
Share your stories, your thoughts, your poetry, and your hopes... Let us remember this day in a very special way.
Thank you, . . . more
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June 15, 2007 08:53 PM EDT --
I am an amateur historian and a "hobbyist" writer. I've got a couple of books on amazon.com , the one you may find most interesting to this subject is the history of The Methodist . . . more
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February 14, 2007 09:15 AM EST --
THIS IS HOW TOO MANY WARS ARE FOUGHT NOW: by children, hopped up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. It is one of the great evils of our time, this arming of children. But we know little about it, because most . . . more
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August 27, 2006 02:57 PM EDT --
Brazil , by Gather member Errol Lincoln Uys, is the epic saga of a nation I knew little about until I got sucked into its history by this master story-teller. Not only is it a "vast novel to . . . more
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September 28, 2006 02:47 PM EDT --
For the freedoms we so oft forget,
While others abuse their "rights" to insult a vet.
Defaming, bashing, framing and more...
While our soldiers are fighting on distant shores.
Who will defend . . . more
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August 25, 2006 02:14 AM EDT --
After a conversation by comment window with Kathryn Esplin-Oleski about her family history I began wondering if we on gather can "gather" our stories a bit?
/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976737633 . . . more
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January 15, 2008 08:16 PM EST --
Since 1945 the countries political leaders have committed American's to a continuous series oflimited wars without the countries total and unquestionable public andpolitical support. The result is . . . more
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October 22, 2006 05:02 PM EDT --
I read a great article this morning here on gather from a writer I respect very much. She was decrying the dirth of serious, self-published articles and cooperation among authors. I had . . . more
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September 29, 2007 10:27 AM EDT --
It was ironic that on page 10 of todays NYTimes we find the lead story about Jenna Bush, the prez's party girl daughter and twin sister of Barbara, touting her new book about "children of exclusion", . . . more
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May 29, 2008 10:34 AM EDT --
First published in 1935, this book is suppose to be a satire. In fact, it is rather frightening, particularly to those who pay close attention to our current political environment. If you . . . more
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January 16, 2008 03:01 PM EST --
This New Book Takes an Inside Look at the Italian and Veteran Cultural Concept of Power and War.
Writers and film makers have immortalized the Sicilian crime family's concept of . . . more
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February 01, 2007 08:05 PM EST --
Tavis J. Hampton lives in Indianapolis where he works as a library media specialist. He writes under the pen name Tavis Adibudeen and over the past few decades has written hundreds of poems, short stories . . . more
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January 17, 2007 11:22 PM EST --
The World Economic Forum is responding to the surge of on-line communication trends by allowing normal folk to submit Internet video questions to world leaders attending its conference (aka "Davos") . . . more
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