Archive for ‘March 20th, 2007’

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Mar20

Are we a nation full of hypocrites when it comes to war?

by Duane on March 20th, 2007 at 11:16 am
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Recently, millions of Americans like any other weekend decided to escape the hustle and bustle of real life to go see the movie “300“. Like past movies like Braveheart and Gladiator, the central themes of this latest pic are loyalty and honor AT ANY COST. And as expected, 300 smashed the record for a movie [...]

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Mar20

Child slavery in Haiti

by Duane on March 20th, 2007 at 11:07 am
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This is a piece that I found in the BBC this morning. While it shines a light on a little known problem in Haiti, IMO, the author goes way out of his way to make a case that poverty causes people to enslave one another. This says a lot about how he really thinks about [...]

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Mar20

Ignoring the white (I mean black) elephant in the room

by Duane on March 20th, 2007 at 9:29 am
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Before students at Morey Middle School took CSAP tests this year, school administrators pulled all the African-American students into two assemblies and told them that, as a whole, they were not performing as well as their peers at the school.
The sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders were told that the school’s principal and assistant principal care about [...]

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Mar20

Private science university comes to Zambia

by Duane on March 20th, 2007 at 12:39 am
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(SciDev.Net — Allafrica.com) Zambia’s first private university for science and technology will open in July, while the country’s state-run university faces problems due to a lack of government support.
Victoria Falls University of Technology, based in Livingstone, Zambia, will offer training in information and communication engineering and agricultural food processing.
Gertrude Akapelwa-Ehueni, chief executive officer of Victoria [...]

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