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Sat, 05 Nov 2005 15:14:46 GMT - Troublemaker
Troublemaker: When a cop gets shot.
Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:51:25 GMT - Tutu
Chewie went to see Desmond Tutu at Guilford. I urge you to read her report.
She opens with a quote from the Archbishop Emeritus: "It is a privilege to come to this city, the first in this country to have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, embodying the theme of reconciling love. The world salutes Greensboro."
More from Jay Ovittore and Hardy Floyd.
Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:42:53 GMT - DarkTimes: Krugman and Friedman
DarkTimes: Krugman ("Defending Imperial Nudity") retells The Emporer's New Clothes as a tale of WMD:
The talk-show host Bill O'Reilly yelled, "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" at the little boy. Calling the boy a nut, he threatened to go to the boy's house and "surprise" him.
Fox News repeatedly played up possible finds of imperial clothing, then buried reports discrediting these stories. Months after the naked procession, a poll found that many of those getting most of their news from Fox believed that the emperor had in fact been clothed.
Imperial officials eventually admitted that they couldn't find any evidence that the suit ever existed, or that there had even been an effort to produce a suit. They insisted, however, that they had found evidence of wardrobe-manufacturing-and-distribution-related program activities.
Etc.
Kicker: "And they all lived happily ever after -- in the story. Here in reality, a large and growing number are being killed by roadside bombs."
Friedman ("From Gunpowder to the Next Big Bang") says China is moving toward a new phase in its economy: "China is focusing on how to transform its classrooms so students become more innovative." Cultural obstacles remain, but Microsoft is already finding talent there, and a flood of venture capital may follow.
Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:36:06 GMT - N&R feels T&R
The N&R steps up its coverage of the Truth & Reconciliation process with this solid story by Margaret Banks. The headline, "Truth panel sees signs of healing," is an improvement, too.
A community dialogue sponsored by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission will be held on Saturday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church on Alamance Church Rd. This is the thing the Mayor said he might attend.
Background links here.
Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:26:18 GMT - Nathan, Wood, Butkovich
Marty Nathan responds to last night's apology by former neo-Nazi (and 1979 gunman) Roland Wayne Wood.
This could be interesting: "In discussion with
Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:41:23 GMT - Migration frustration
Anyone want to help me import 5,000 Radio posts to TypePad? The Help files send me here, but that doesn't do me much good...I'm pretty much ready to launch the new site, but I would like to bring the old one along...
Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:01:09 GMT - The last word means "fan"
Paris: La merde frappe le ventilateur.
Lots of immigrants to France end up in the grim suburbs of Paris. Many of these people are from former French colonies in North Africa -- it's been said there are more practicing Muslims in France than practicing Catholics -- and racial and religious tensions run high. That's the backdrop for the riots that have shaken Paris for the last week.
Years ago Lisa and I had dinner with a 16th-arrondissement doyenne who chastised us for America's treatment of black people. I asked if the French didn't have similar issues with the "beurs," as French slang identifies the children of these immigrants from the Maghreb.
"That's different," she said. "They steal and they smell."
This has been a long time coming.
Thu, 03 Nov 2005 19:52:43 GMT - Thursday evening in GSO
Things to do in Greensboro tonight:
Check out the Loewenstein Legacy lectures on modern architecture and preservation, Weatherspoon Museum, 7 PM. (Free and open to public)
Catch a Speech by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Guilford College. (sold out)
Watch Meet John Doe, with Gary Cooper, The Scene on South Elm ($3)
Watch Survivor with Sydney. (invitation only)
Thu, 03 Nov 2005 19:22:33 GMT - Pros talking politics
Gary Pearce and Carter Wrenn are blogging about politics.
Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:21:29 GMT - DarkTimes: Herbert and Brooks
DarkTimes: Herbert ("Secrets and Shame") ledes with a prophecy: "Ultimately the whole truth will come out and historians will have their say, and Americans will look in the mirror and be ashamed."
He's talking about this: "The latest story from the Dante-esque depths of this administration was front-page news in The Washington Post yesterday. The reporter, Dana Priest, gave us the best glimpse yet of the extent of the secret network of prisons in which the C.I.A. has been hiding and interrogating terror suspects. The network includes a facility at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe."
More: "This is the border along which democracy bleeds into tyranny."
Brooks does a MoDo impression, but the column-as-political-cartoon schtick doesn't really suit him. His conceit is that Harry Reid is a crazy conspiracy theorist, because lots of people back to the Clinton years thought Saddam had WMD, so this cooked-intelligence stuff is just wacky. "Harry Reid sits alone at his kitchen table at 4 a.m., writing important notes in crayon on the outside of envelopes," ledes Brooks, a line he repeats over and again in "The Harry da Reid Code."
Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:12:16 GMT - Smart chicks
Lots of people are talking about Maureen Dowd's lonely-hearts piece in the Times mag, few with more attitude than Chris Nolan, who thinks Dowd misses the way we live now: "Mo doesn't do porn, wax or sex for that matter. In a world of on-line hook-ups and sex chat, hotornot.com and Friendster, she's still trying to figure out who's paying for dinner. Like all sex takes place at night after a good meal."
No doubt women still make a lot of trade-offs in this world. I'm married to one of them, a cum laude Ivy League grad and former Forbes reporter who has spent the last several years as a full-time mom. You tell her she sacrificed her principles to do that. Then, duck.
Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:03:01 GMT - Guilford reps vote no on free speech
Coble, Miller, and Watt all voted against free speech on the Internet.
Email your congressman and tell him you want to blog without Federal regulation.
Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:59:07 GMT - Reconciliation
26 years later, a former Klan leader apologizes to Marty Nathan for his role in the 11/3/79 Greensboro killings.
A community dialogue sponsored by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission will be held on Saturday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church on Alamance Church Rd. This is the thing the Mayor said he might attend.
Previous coverage here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:42:27 GMT - Downtown wireless
Wireless Internet service coming to South Elm St.
Wed, 02 Nov 2005 23:16:07 GMT
