Posts Tagged ‘humanitarian intervention’
A short, short, short story
A friend has a link on her blog to another interesting blog–this all sounds so incestuous–called Six Sentences. Just what it sounds: Stories, about anything, that are only six sentences long. I decided to try my hand at it, with words from a woman I met months ago, that have stuck with me… I also [...]
Who does laundry for the Leader of the Free World?
This was one among many questions Bob Geldof had for George Bush. Geldof — you know, the guy behind retro-human-rights-cool “Live Aid” and modern-day-human-rights-chic “Live 8″ — flew on Air Force One as Bush hopped around Africa. He got some face-time with the president, and from it he made an interesting, punchy article for Time. [...]
I can’t believe I’m posting about George Clooney
It has come to this. But maybe the “it” isn’t me… Hold on, we need some context: Clooney recently had a dark-night-of-the-soul (or of the red wine, depending) with Time Magazine’s Joel Stein, about Darfur: “But now, just three weeks back from having a 14-year-old border guard shove a machine gun at his chest, after [...]
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