This was an unprecedented operation. It will go down in history for its audaciousness and effectiveness."
--Juan Manuel Santos, defence minister, Colombia
It will also go down for the best use of Che Guevara t-shirts. Read more »
This was an unprecedented operation. It will go down in history for its audaciousness and effectiveness."
--Juan Manuel Santos, defence minister, Colombia
It will also go down for the best use of Che Guevara t-shirts. Read more »
While on the subject of patristics, the Very Reverend Professor Henry Chadwick, churchman, historian, patristics scholar and ecumenist died on Tuesday aged 87.
"One of the last great Anglican scholars."
In my del.icio.us links on the sidebar, I noted the story about a Queensland grammar guide for English teachers being full of errors. Geoffrey Pullum at Language Log gives the rest of the story. Read more »
Greg Sheridan, The Australian's foreign affairs writer, gets straight to the point in his very first sentence:
Kevin Rudd is in danger of turning what should be his greatest strength into a serious weakness.
Huzzah, no waffle even in the second: Read more »
Head of the inclusive church of the messiah who will turn tides:
Who would have thought that a relatively new Washington, D.C.,
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insider’s news organization would scoop all the news organizations in a
major U.S. city that boasts two major daily newspapers? The Politico,
which has quickly established its turf in a town full of media
organizations, reported Wednesday morning that Muslims were “barred
from picture at Obama event.”
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened
Sunday to send Afghan troops after notorious Taliban leaders inside
Pakistan in an angry warning to his eastern neighbor that he will no
longer tolerate cross-border attacks.The threat — the first time
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Karzai has said he would send forces into Pakistan — comes only days
after a sophisticated Taliban assault on Kandahar's prison freed 870
prisoners, and six weeks after Karzai survived his fourth assassination
attempt.
One can never say enough good things about to the Obamanable Showman.
WASHINGTON -- In his St. Paul victory speech, Barack Obama pledged
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again to pull out of Iraq. Rather than "continue a policy in Iraq that
asks everything of our brave men and women in uniform and nothing of
Iraqi politicians. ... It's time for Iraqis to take responsibility for
their future."
The wife of a Zimbabwean opposition party member has been brutally
murdered in what is being labelled as one the most grotesque atrocities
yet committed by Robert Mugabe’s regime.Dadirai Chipiro, wife of Patson Chipiro who heads the Zimbabwean
opposition party in Mhondoro district, had a hand cut off as well as
both of her feet before a petrol bomb was thrown through her window.The three men who pulled up outside her house were looking for her
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husband, who was in Harare, and left before coming back an hour later
to kill her.
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