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The ruling class blinks in The Queen

Movie Review I was scared to go to see the film “The Queen” since Helen Mirren is one of my favorite actresses. I was terrified that she would portray Queen Elizabeth in a positive light, and...

The story of South Africas Little Sarah

Book Review Rachel Holmes retells the true story of Saartjie (Little Sarah) Baartman, the “Hottentot Venus,” a young South African woman whose international adventures spanned more than 200 years. Saartjie (pronounced Saar-kie in Afrikaans) was a...

Aristotle and the Internet some social implications of the web

Aristotle, one of the great minds of antiquity, thought that the population of states could never grow larger than the few thousand who could be directly seen and addressed in one place. For how else could...

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30 to 40 years in Iraq

Ideas abound from all sources — government, media, military — on why we are in Iraq, how long we should be there and how we should get out. A look at history may provide some real...