In these tense, violent and dangerous times, it was a moment of hope: 300 demonstrators, Israelis and Palestinians, standing together in protest of the occupation of Orient House and the other Palestinian institutions in and around Jerusalem.

The U.S. was the best friend the apartheid regime ever had. It has never met a dictator it didn't like. Is there any wonder now that it wants to demand that be no discussion of slave reparations in Durban?

Holding the gun off to the side, I squeezed my eyes shut as hard as I could, cocked the trigger back the rest of the way and fired into the back woods. I was twelve.

The alternative to multiculturalism is not narrowness but synthesis, a true diversity not self-abnegation.

We only know the president is actually in there because he doesn't rattle when shaken.

I support the government's case against Microsoft not because I am a lapsed Libertarian, but because I am resigned to the fact that the government may be the only entity capable of checking Microsoft's power.

The United States should apologize for its participation in the slave trade and the long history of racism against black people that that participation fostered and supported.

"Replacing those who die early... leads to savings in social benefits paid to the unemployed and in costs of re-training."

Every breakthrough idea is always the result of thousand of minds adding their little bit to the process until one day the critical mass of converging possibilities is focussed through a "genius" who stumbles into a solution.

Presumably the officer in picture 17 is NOT kicking Giuliani in the head, no matter what it looks like.

N2H2 has only $6.2 million in cash left from its 1999 initial public offering, and spent $3.9 million to pay expenses in third quarter. This would seem to imply that N2H2 has less than six months of cash to burn before insolvency, unless it finds new capital sources or becomes profitable first.