Remember that old song by the Coasters entitled "Charlie Brown"? Well it appears that Paul Wolfowitz has pulled some lyrics right from that classic tune. Why is everybody always picking on me? Today the World Bank president is attempting to claim that this whole fiasco is actually a smear campaign started by the World Bank, […]
Will He or Won’t He?
In what is becoming the most compelling story of a less than dry campaign cycle, new rumors have emerged that Al Gore may run for President in 2008. There have been claims that friends of the former Vice-President are secretly putting together a campaign team, or at least, putting a claim on two former members […]
Zimbabwe’s Oppressed Cries Reach God’s Ears?
Zimbabweans are turning en masse to God in search of solace and divine answers in the face of a political and economic fallout that has no apparent resolution in sight. Christianity, which played a key role in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle that ushered independence from British colonial rule in 1980, is increasingly providing a platform for […]
Polity of Jammu and Kashmir: Skewed to favour a few
Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India: Jammu and Kashmir has been accorded a special status in the constitutional scheme of things in India. J&K unlike any other state in India has its own constitution, own flag as well as state penal code. As a result of the unique constitutional arrangement, the State Assembly has been accorded […]
A Place to Belong
The Phoenix Theatre by day is a picture reminiscent of an after school daycare program. Inside the main auditorium kids are skateboarding on the multitude of wooden ramps set up against the walls. The lobby is filled with youth hanging out, and searching their pockets for change to buy candy or soda from the concession […]
The Art of the Party
“Chelsea’s become too clean. We need something different.” Solange Umutoni is not talking about the floodlit circus that used to be 27th Street. Nor is she referring to its formerly notorious nightclubs—places like Cain and Bungalow 8—where the most illicit vice is now cigarette-smoking. Ms. Umutoni talking about art. It’s December 4, 2006, and we’re […]
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