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  1. A call for heresy and dissent

    There’s a haunting television commercial in rotation these days. Thousands of nondescript people are bustling across a heavenly green meadow toward a gaping, bottomless hole where, like lemmings, they plunge into nonexistence. With their arms at their sides and their complicit legs still pumping, mass mentality, according to the ad, deprives them of a sizzling hamburger.


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  2. Failing our duty to Iraqi refugees

    A hugely underreported story out of Iraq is the plight of millions of faceless innocents fleeing their homes. They are guilty of no crime, and over the course of the disastrous liberation of their country, they have been robbed of their livelihood. Some have even worked for the United States. Despite the fact that the U.S. government has acknowledged that these refugees are our responsibility, so far, we’ve left them stranded.


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  3. Dispatch from Cairo

    Perhaps the best way to look at a city is to stare into the eyes of its children. When I arrived in Cairo two weeks ago, I set off to explore, crossing the Nile River, which does indeed bear an emerald sheen. I stumbled upon a government complex where patches of green grass provided refuge from the dry sands of the Sahara for kids to play soccer. As I sat down to watch, a crew of young boys — probably around 10 years old — ran over and surrounded me, smiling.


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  4. Assailed by Sales in Mecca

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      1. Metro, April 04, 2007
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      • 392 words
      • 13.1 inches

    World War III? A Christian crusade? A Zionist ploy? Relentless jihad? Hardly. World leaders and radical revolutionaries rattle off these inflammatory phrases to describe today’s often despicable state of world affairs, but in the vein of a bleeding-heart humanist, I hereby declare that the Muslim world and the West have much more in common than any of us ever thought possible.


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  5. Diplomatic dancing in Darfur

    There’s a 60-day cease-fire in Darfur. Great news, isn’t it? Two weeks ago, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson traveled to Africa and spent two days in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, where he spoke directly with President Omar al-Bashir. Richardson also traveled west to the Darfur region to negotiate with rebel groups. The result? At face value, many of the warring factions are in agreement: The fighting will stop.


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