Entries from May 2008

May 30, 2008

CLINTON’S LATEST CLAIM: SHE’S THE MOST ‘FISCALLY-RESPONSIBLE’ CANDIDATE

May 29, 2008, 3:29 PM
Clinton’s Latest Claim: She’s The Most “Fiscally Responsible” Candidate

From CBS News’ Fernando Suarez:
HURON, S.D. — On her last day of campaigning in South Dakota, Hillary Clinton told a group of supporters huddled inside a ballroom that South Dakotans should pick her on Tuesday because of her economic experience. “If you [...]

May 30, 2008

OBAMA’S OTHER CONTROVERSIAL PREACHER

Democratic Candidate Distances Himself From The Rev. Michael Pfleger Over Racially-Charged Remarks
CHICAGO, May 29, 2008

In this June 1, 2007 file photo, Rev. Michael Pfleger, left, of Saint Sabina Catholic Church is seen with Rev. Jesse Jackson during a news conference at Rainbow/Push Coalition headquarters in Chicago. Pfleger apologized Thursday, May 29, 2008, for the sermon [...]

May 27, 2008

FROM THE ARCHIVES: THE HEARTS OF DARKNESS: HOW EUROPEAN WRITERS CREATED THE RACIST IMAGE OF AFRICA, PART 7

Part Seven
by Milton Allimadi
 
 
The same racist propaganda that prepared European and American public opinion for the divvying up of Africa in the late Nineteenth Century, reemerged with a vengeance as African nations won nominal independence in the mid-Twentieth Century. Western media paved the way for the assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba and the subsequent [...]

May 27, 2008

SUPERNOVAS

SUPERNOVA CAUGHT AT ITS VERY FIRST START:

SN 2008D, a Type Ib supernova, shown in X-ray (left) and visible light (right) at the far upper end of the galaxy. Captured by the NASA Swift-X-ray Telescope, on January 9, 2008.   NASA image.
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Multiwavelength X-ray, infrared, and optical compilation image of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, SN 1604. (Chandra X-ray Observatory)
 
 

The Crab Nebula [...]

May 27, 2008

CHARITY (AND RAPE): UN PEACEKEEPERS, AID WORKERS ABUSE CHILDREN IN SUDAN, HAITI, IVORY COAST

U.N. Aid Workers Accused of Sex Crimes in Congo
Didier Bourguet, a U.N. official from France, is pictured here in one of the images found on his hard drive, which was obtained by ABC News. Also on the hard drive were thousands of photos of him having sex with hundreds of young girls.
(ABC News)
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British charity reports [...]

May 27, 2008

HOPE IN THE UNSEEN

 
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: May 25, 2008
 
 

Every once in a while as a journalist you see a scene that grips you and will not let go, a scene that is at once so uplifting and so cruel it’s difficult to even convey in words. I saw such a scene last weekend at the College of [...]

May 26, 2008

TRAVEL: DRIVING BACK INTO LOUISIANA’S HISTORY

Chris Ramirez for The New York Times
Leonard Julien Jr. by the home where he grew up in Donaldsonville, La. Mr. Julien’s father invented a machine to plant sugar cane.

 

By RON STODGHILL
Published: May 25, 2008
 
 

STRIDING across the rain-soaked field of an abandoned Louisiana plantation, Mitch Landrieu, the state’s lieutenant governor, waved his hands impatiently. “C’mon, you’ve [...]

May 26, 2008

ALBERT EINSTEIN ON ‘THE NEGRO QUESTION’

I am writing as one who has lived among you in America only a little more than ten years. And I am writing seriously and warningly. Many readers may ask:
“What right has he to speak about things which concern us alone, and which no newcomer should touch?”
I do not think such a standpoint is justified. [...]

May 25, 2008

MEMORIAL DAY: 5-26-2008

FORT LOGAN NATIONAL CEMETERY, DENVER, COLORADO.
Following the end of the Civil War, many communities set aside a day to mark the end of the war or as a memorial to those who had died. Some of the places creating an early memorial day include Charleston, South Carolina; Boalsburg, Pennsylvania; Richmond, Virginia; Carbondale, Illinois; Columbus, Mississippi; [...]

May 25, 2008

DIVERSITY AT THE OFFICE: POLICY VS. REALITY

SHIFTING CAREERS – DIVERSITY AT THE OFFICE:  POLICY VS. REALITY
 
 
By MARCI ALBOHER
Published: May 25, 2008
 

MINORITY employees may flee workplaces even when employers have so-called diversity programs in place, says Natalie Holder-Winfield, an employment lawyer turned diversity consultant.
 
 
 

A book by Natalie Holder-Winfield advises employers how to create and sustain diversity.
 

I recently talked with Ms. Holder-Winfield, the [...]