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...decidedly politically incorrect style drew peals of laughter from the audience. As a preface to his reading from his 2002 collection of prose poems “Dust and Conscience” and his recently completed manuscript “Four Letter Words,” Truong Tran placed particular emphasis on the political nature of writing. “I wrote the second collection as a response to our wonderful Laura Bush who cancelled the poetry summit in 2003 saying that poetry and politics have nothing to do with one another,” he said. If homogenizing connotations...
...land that has been “theirs” for a long time, especially in this context in which such sentiments do little to advance the peace process. But to refuse to acknowledge that sensitive and intelligent people can voice these feelings as a result of their particular experiences is not only counterproductive but also dangerous. It makes opportunities to meet the “other side,” such as Picture Balata provides, all the more valuable...
...different experience for McDaniel to be rowing on the opposite side to his erstwhile Crimson teammates, but a fun one, he said. Competing against Kosmicki in particular, who stroked Harvard’s varsity eight after his own tenure in stroke seat finished, he mentioned, added an extra, friendly incentive to win as well...
...telling. He denounces policies of violence on both sides, recounting stories of unwarranted arrests, tortures, and evictions of Palestinians from their homes by Israeli officials, as well as suicide bombings and the culture of revenge that many Palestinian leaders breed. He also tells of youthful idealism and particularly his early hope for a “single, secular Jewish-Arab state,” which eventually evolves into his strong faith in a two-state solution. He recounts how standing in the middle can put one at odds with both sides, describing how he was considered both...
...other Republicans were not so charitable. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a key Bush loyalist who early today said that Gonzales's essential virtue "will show through," was tough on the Attorney General. Sessions took particular issue with Gonzales' statement that he could not remember the specifics of a November 27 meeting of top Justice Department officials to discuss the dismissals, only 10 days before they were carried out. During the lunch break, Sessions told TIME, "I'm troubled, very troubled that the Attorney General just flatly stated he had no recollections of the meeting in November...