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January 16, 2008

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August 1, 2007

Our New Problem From Hell

Samantha Power, of “A Problem from Hell:” America and the Age of Genocide fame, an insightful book studying America’s indifference to various genocides throughout the 20th Century, had a great book review in last Sunday’s The New York Times.
While I started reading her review just because I respected her and wanted to read her thoughts […]

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July 30, 2007

All You Who Sleep Tonight

This is the title poem in one of Vikram Seth’s books of poetry. I found it while randomly “surfing” books at my high school library — quite a few years ago now. It’s still probably my favorite poem.
All You Who Sleep Tonight
All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or […]

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