: America's "Long War": The Legacy of the Iraq-Iran and Soviet-Afghan Wars : (Kurdish Media)
Yesterday?s events influence the direction of tomorrow. The question is: are future developments, as a result of past events, foreseen or unforeseen? Are the results of past events mostly unintended consequences or serendipity?...more...Face it: we need the McCanns to be guilty (Times Online)
Yesterday I passed a woman wearing a ?Bored of the Beckhams? T-shirt. Rather passé, I thought, considering they?ve fled Britain to weary a whole new continent....more... Child-porn star gets 10 months as judge shames him over victims (The Scotsman)
THE actor Chris Langham was last night beginning a ten-month jail term for downloading child pornography....more... Review: Surgical fiction in 'Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures' (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures By Vincent Lam WEINSTEIN BOOKS; 353 PAGES; $23.95 Vincent Lam's first book of fiction, "Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures," comes to the United State an already proven deal. The story collection won Canada's prestigious Giller... ...more... Fire and flood threat to our literary heritage (The Scotsman)
IT CONTAINS Scotland's greatest literary treasures, including the last letter of Mary Queen of Scots, a historic Gutenberg Bible and Charles Darwin's letter proposing the origin of species....more... Young Muslims begin dangerous fight for the right to abandon faith (Times Online)
A group of young Muslim apostates launches a campaign today, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America, to make it easier to renounce Islam. The provocative move reflects a growing rift between traditionalists and a younger generation raised on a diet of Dutch tolerance....more... The Mulroney I know (Canada.com)
Brian Mulroney and George H. W. Bush in Washington on April 28, 1988. On Sept. 10, Douglas Gibson Books/ McClelland & Stewart will release Memoirs: 1939-1993, by Brian Mulroney....more... Our followers ?must live in peace until strong enough to wage jihad? (Times Online)
One of the world?s most respected Deobandi scholars believes that aggressive military jihad should be waged by Muslims ?to establish the supremacy of Islam? worldwide....more... Farley Mowat's greatest honour (Canada.com)
He's Canada's most decorated author, but the literary giant says none of his honours stacks up to having a school named after him. Katie Lewis reports from the new Farley Mowat Public School in Barrhaven....more... |