Analysis
A river walk and garden for the ages
June 14, 2008The man was well dressed, one might even say dapper. He moved to the front of the packed room with a professorial air. Born of the 19th century and known for his advocacy for social justice,...
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Why are oil prices going through the roof?
June 3, 2008As she watched the numbers flick upward while filling her car at a gas station in Providence, R.I., the other day, a woman turned to another customer with a grimace and said, “I told my kids...
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The age of progress?
May 30, 2008Karl Marx and Frederick Engels ushered in a new philosophical view in their various works. Dialectical materialism became the scientific method which made sense of the universe. It has been borne out in quantum physics and...
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Taking global poverty seriously
May 30, 2008Scatter-shot efforts, no matter how innovative, will not suffice to reverse the awful trends now evident around the world. New plagues — AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis and hospital-acquired “superbugs” of all sorts — sweep rapidly across vast...
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Three contrasting congresses meet in Germany
May 29, 2008Berlin – Three all-German congresses were held this past weekend; all important but very different. The bad news first. The beautiful old city of Bamberg hosted the national congress of the National Party (NPD) – the...
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