As catch phrases go, "Revolutionary Nonviolence" has not exactly caught the imagination of generations or legions of activists. Full of rhetoric and apparently contradictory meanings, those two words balanced against one another appear to confuse as many people as they inspire.
Britain's treatment of the inhabitants of a small island territory in the Indian Ocean is a political, legal and national disgrace that must be redressed.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leopold Sedar Senghor, poet, cultural thinker, and first President of independent Senegal. At a time when the dialogue among civilizations as well as a possible clash among civilizations is on the world political agenda, it is useful to look at the lasting contribution of Senghor in an article devoted to Senghor as a poet and cultural thinker.
I watched two men enter the lobby of the Hotel Mowafaq.
Most Afghans seemed to glide up the center of the lobby staircase with their shawls trailing behind them like Venetian cloaks. But these men wore Western jackets, walked quietly, and stayed close to the banister. I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was the hotel manager.
The Bush Administration's final verdict is that the United States attacked Iraq to help spread democracy and freedom to the Iraqi people. Throughout the length of the conflict and the slow process to select a government, the idea of democracy has been increasingly questioned.
National Intelligence Director John Negroponte's Commencement Address to the graduating class of private St. Johnsbury Academy in Vermont was disrupted twice by protesters inside the auditorium where the ceremony was being held.
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