There is only one absolute certainty about every one of the civil conflicts, including the one in Iraq, which are raging in various parts of the world today. That certainty is that at some point, each
David Grossman’s widely publicized speech at the annual memorial rally for Yitzhak Rabin earlier this month has prompted some fine deconstruction of his “words of peace” from critics. Grossman,
Two hours drive due north from Helsinki lies the Artic Circle. But in this town of 120,000 people one not only feels the bitter cold but also the white heat of the technological revolution. Here
Poverty is only one of the lines dividing Indians. The poverty line is in fact the weakest line; it is the line of nonresistance. The truly impoverished do not have the strength to resist, or they
I couldn’t help a deep, unhealthy chuckle when I watched the French foreign minister, Philippe Douste-Blazy arrive outside the wooden doors of Saint George’s Maronite Cathedral in Beirut this week.
