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Václav Havel et al: Cooperation between nations to secure water is the only way forward

guardian.co.uk
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Water: a source of Middle East peace? In the Middle East, for instance, Israelis and Palestinians – as well as many others around the world – are beginning to believe that the negotiations to determine the long-term status of...

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The End of the End of the End of History?

insidehighered.com
Aug 27, 2008
        

By Scott McLemee One minor casualty of the recent conflict in Georgia was the doctrine of peace through McGlobalization — a belief first elaborated by Thomas Friedman in 1999, and left in ruins on August 8, when Russian...

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Vaclav Havel, Desmond Tutu, Wei Jingsheng and André Glucksmann : Playing for Human Rights

project-syndicate.org
Aug 13, 2008 1,866 related
        

PRAGUE -- The selection of Beijing to organize and host the 2008 Olympic Games was accompanied by the Chinese government’s pledges of visible progress on respect for human rights. We understood these as a condition whose...

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Olympic Crossroads

city-journal.org
Aug 11, 2008
        

It’s right for Western democracies to put pressure on Beijing. The brutal repression of monks and civilians in Tibet shocks world opinion and accelerates our elites’ belly dance before the Chinese authorities. Faced with the...

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Aclav Havel, Desmond Tutu, MEPs Call for Human Rights At Beijing Olympics

newsblaze.com
Aug 1, 2008 5 related
        

A group of international intellectual, spiritual and political leaders has published a public appeal today, calling on the International Olympic Committee to allow full access to information at Beijing Olympics and on Olympic...

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A Pope Who Engages Secularists

time.com
Jul 25, 2008 1 related
        

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he departs Australia at Sydney Airport on July 21, 2008. Coming on the heels of the Second Vatican Council's unprecedented opening of the Church to modernity three years earlier, the Vatican's...

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An Iconoclastic Icon

city-journal.org
Jul 8, 2008 3,163 related
        

Ingrid Betancourt said no to slavery, even at the risk of death. Public opinion, government officials, ordinary citizens, and her friends and family—all are moved by, and rejoice in, Ingrid Betancourt’s liberation from the FARC...

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The importance of Intellectuals

globalclashes.com
Jun 9, 2008 1 related
        

A few weeks ago, the Financial Times had a great article on the importance of Intellectuals (even though it is decreasing) in France. Sugary excerpt: But even today the reverence shown to intellectuals is astonishing. Scarcely...

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Revolutionary ideas

news.com.au
May 30, 2008
        

I LIVED in Paris in the mid to late 1970s and was reminded recently of the reasons that first took me to France, when I stayed for some time in a studio on rue Dauphine in the Latin Quarter. In 1976 I rented a small apartment in rue...

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List of French Jews WIKIPEDIA

alhen.wordpress.com
May 16, 2008
        

List of French Jews From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Interested in contributing to Wikipedia? • Jump to: navigation, search List of Jews by country Europe Eastern Europe | North Europe South-East Europe West Europe Americas Latin America | Caribbean Canada | United States Rest of World...

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