Dance me-- Madeleine Peyroux
on Nov 17, 2009...

If you forget me-- by Pablo Neruda
on Nov 16, 2009If You Forget Me I want you to knowone thing.You know how this is:if I lookat the crystal moon, at the red branchof the slow autumn at my window,if I touchnear the firethe impalpable ashor the wrinkled body of the log,everything carries me to you,as...

Dance Me-- Leonard Cohen
on Nov 16, 2009...

Filtering ugliness
on Nov 16, 2009"By 2008, some senior faculty members at Walter Reed were questioning Major Hasan's loyalty to the country..." That is one hell of an explosive charge. In fact, it might be the most explosive point of all in assessing whether the U.S. Army could have...

Getting away with murder?
on Nov 16, 2009We live in an in-your-face, chest-thumping, high-fiving world. No one's immune, certainly not our politicians. Maybe that explains Senator Patrick Leahy's enthusiasm for the media and political circus that will surround the upcoming Manhattan trial o...

Performance art-- "300,000 Birds"
on Nov 16, 2009...

Anatomy of failure
on Nov 16, 2009Historians will dissect one day how President Obama tackled the complex and violent mess in the Middle East. For now, we have, as they say, a first draft of history, as in this cogent analysis from Steve Huntley of The Chicago Sun-Times.Enter Obama.

Massai hip hop-- from the heart of Africa
on Nov 15, 2009...

Sabi's desert adventure
on Nov 15, 2009I think that now that I have my own dog, I'm more interested in dog stories, like this one from Afghanistan.A sniffer dog that went missing in action after a battle in Afghanistan has been found safe and well after more than a year in the desert.Sabi...

Weak-kneed in England?
on Nov 15, 2009It's hard to believe this story, but according to this London paper, two British schoolboys were punished for not kneeling down and "praying to Allah".Two schoolboys were given detention after refusing to kneel down and 'pray to Allah' during a relig...