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Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
Guardian: "A Charles Dickens theme park opens in Kent next month. Don't go expecting grimy Victorian authenticity, says Simon Swift - just enjoy the Great Expectations log flume."
The Disneyfication of literature. People want to be amused, they don't want to hear about social things in this our greedy world. It's commerce and that can only thrive in an atmosphere of merriment. It was the best of times and it was the ... best of times.
10:49:56 AM 
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SMH: "Two Secret Service officers were injured after a gun held by another Secret Service officer accidentally fired inside the White House gate, according to a spokesman, Darrin Blackford."
If professionals and vice-presidents can't be trusted with guns, how on earth is it justifiable to sell guns to students?
10:41:41 AM
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YNetNews: "Documentary shows Israel worst place for Holocaust survivors to live throughout Western world. Hundreds protest outside Knesset, demand goverment help survivors with financial difficulties."
Haaretz: "The cynicism inherent in the attitude of the institutions of the Jewish state to Holocaust survivors is not a revelation to those born and living among them. We grew up with the yawning gap between the presentation of the State of Israel as the place of the Jewish people's rebirth and the void that exists for every Holocaust survivor and his family.
Turning the Holocaust into a political asset serves Israel primarily in its fight against the Palestinians. When the Holocaust is on one side of the scale, along with the guilty (and rightly so) conscience of the West, the dispossession of the Palestinian people from their homeland in 1948 is minimized and blurred."
10:24:31 AM
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