Love -- Another Interlude Before Changing Minds II
gapingvoid.com "We don't have enough ways to care for each other: that's the moment we're living in. We need love to solve the problem of education, and I don't know how we're going to solve the health care problem without love." Anna Deavere Smith, NYU Law & Tisch School of the Arts about the PBS Documentary,The Mystery of Love from The Countless Varieties of a Single Emotion: Love in today's New York Times. One of the stories to be told in this documentary (to air on PBS in mid-December) is the friendship between Azim Khamisa, a Muslim father whose 20-year-old son Tariq was murdered...
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Settlements with Apologies in the News
from today's New York Times, U.S. Will Pay $2 Million to Lawyer Wrongly Jailed By ERIC LICHTBLAU Published: November 30, 2006 The unusual settlement caps a two-and-a-half-year ordeal that saw the lawyer, Brandon Mayfield, go from being a suspected terrorist operative to a symbol, in the eyes of his supporters, of government overzealousness in the war on terrorism. “The United States of America apologizes to Mr. Brandon Mayfield and his family for the suffering caused” by his mistaken arrest, the government’s apology began. It added that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which erroneously linked him to the Madrid bombs...
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