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Julia Stein's Blog
November 21, 2009
- Ann Jones has written a book that explains why the U.S. is losing in Afghanistan. She is a American journalist and photographer who went to Afghanistan in the winter of 2001 to help the country out as an aid worker and spent four winters there. Her book is part memoir of her time working with a feminist non-government agency (NGO) Madar which helps Afghan widows and also teaching English as a ...
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November 15, 2009
- Here's a doctor who teaches at Harvard arguing against the House of Representatives health care bill as a bad bill that will continue our too costly private health insurance system and give bad care. She says this health care bill is a private health insurance takeover of the health care system. She gives good alternatives too: just expand Medicare. First expand it to people 55 to 65. Then ...
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November 14, 2009
- P.D. James 2001 novel Death in Holy Orders is much more than an enthralling mystery story. She is the Dostoyevsky of the English novel, making the mystery novel into a great piece of literature. Death in Holy Orders is set in a St. Anselm's, a small theological college on the east coast of England that trains Anglican priests; St. Anselm's has seen two suspicious deaths even before detective ...
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November 13, 2009
- I started to use my French press for the first time rather than my coffee pot which uses paper filters, and the coffee from the French press was excellent. I stopped use paper napkins and started using a cloth napkin which worked very well. Also, I took my red metal coffee cup with me whenever I went out, and started use it whenever I ordered coffee or ice tea at a coffee shop or coffee house. ...
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November 12, 2009
- Dr. Nadir Atash's autobiography Turbulence is a book crucial to understanding Afghanistan. Dr. Atash has two parts to his autobiography. The first part describes growing up in 1960s Kabul full of hope for his country, but his hope ended when he found himself a refugee in 1979.The second part describes returning in 2001 as a successful Afghan-American professional eager to help rebuild his country ...
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November 10, 2009
- According to Fall 2009 Volume 11 issue of FACCCTS, the advocacy journal of community college faculty in California, in the recent cutbacks of 2009, 250,000 students were cut out of community colleges; 40,000 cut out of California State University. Thousands of public employees lost their jobs and tens of thousands had pay cuts because of furloughs.The "budget crisis providing an opportunity ...
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November 7, 2009
- Afghani feminist/activist Malalai Joya has been gaining world-wide fame for speaking out against the warlords in Afghanistan. I heard her speak at a Code Pink lunch in West Los Angeles and just read her autobiography A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Women Who Dared to Raise Her Voice.At thirty years old she calls herself part of the war generation of Afghanis. Her ...
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November 6, 2009
- My grandfather came from Galicia in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire like Isaac in the novel Isaac's Torah and also was also a soldier for the Austria-Hungarian Empire like Isaac but my grandfather Samuel Stein emigrated to New York before World War I while Isaac stayed in Eastern Europe rolled over by wars. Isaac's story is like that of my long lost Galician cousins.Angel Wagenstein has ...
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November 5, 2009
- Rep. Grayson (D-Florida) on floor of House of Representatives gave speech saying according to Harvard study 44,000 Americans die from lack of health insurance every year or 120 die/day. He read the list of the number of projected dead for next year for every Republican Congressional district in the country. The Republicans are totally opposed to any plans to expand health insurance. ...
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October 31, 2009
- P.D. James latest novel The Private Patient with the detective Adam Dagliesh and his team solving two murders set in a manor house in Dorset is quite wonderful. She wrote the novel when she was 87 and published it when she was 88 in 2008. James artfully combines the old England and the new England. As for the old England, the novel ends not just with the two murders solved but with a wedding and ...
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October 30, 2009
- I want to be honest--there are things I do without happily, things I struggled to do without, and things I coud do without I have not yet started to struggle with. So here's the list:What i Do Without:1. Plastic water bottles--last year I got a metal water bottle, and use it 90% of the time. I'm still struggling with this one, as sometimes i forgoret my metal water bottle, and on vacation in ...
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October 28, 2009
- I'm a member of the organization Green america, so I get their magazine. The No. 78 Fall 2009 issue is devoted to "Reclaiming the Streets" from the gasoline-driven autombile. I'm interested because most of the streets in Los Angeles are traffic sewers--just designed for automobiles but not pedestrians, children, or bikers. I often go to one block on Larchmont Avenue because it is the ...
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October 27, 2009
- September 10, 2009, U.S. diplomat and Marine Captain Matthew Hoh sent in a letter of resignation resigning his foreign service position in Afghanistan in protest of the Afghan War. He is the first U.S. government official to resign in order to protest the war. Hoh had combat experience with the Marines in Iraq where many of closest friends died, and he stresses he is no pot smoking hippie. ...
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October 25, 2009
- Last night I went to the tenth Day of the Dead Cemetery. When I first went eight years ago there was no admission charge, very small crowds, no line to get in, alters in honor of the dead created by Mexican and Anglo artists; and purple lights lighting up the palm trees down the center road bathing the alters and graves in this awesome purple white light. Last night there was thousands upon ...
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October 23, 2009
- I endorse the call of Latinos, immigrants, and others that CNN has allowed Lou Dobbs to spew out hateful lies about Hispanic immigrants for too long, and now CNN should fire Lou Dobbs. As the editorial in El Diario La Prensa from New York says, "For years, almost on a daily basis, Dobbs has relentlessly attacked immigrants. In this pursuit, his disdain for Latinos and immigrants is ...
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