AIA Remembers Christopher Hitchens
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A noted left-wing author who teaches at a bastion of so-called progressive education recently delivered a surprising defense of Western civilization—and an attack on prevailing academic attitudes towards it. Unfortunately, Christopher Hitchens said, confidence in the superiority of the West has been eroded in recent decades. Hitchens teaches at the New School in New York City. Hitchens criticized those Americans (on both the Left and the Right) who responded to the September 11 attacks by asking what America had done to deserve them—a question belonging to a mindset he called “moral suicide.” Such relativism, Hitchens said, is the result of...
Published on Friday 18th of May 2012 03:07:41 AM
Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
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The influential writer and cultural critic Christopher Hitchens died on Thursday at the age of 62 from complications of cancer of the esophagus. Hitchens confronted his disease in part by writing, bringing the same unsparing insight to his mortality that he had directed at so many other subjects. Over the years, Hitchens' caustic attention was directed at a broad range of subjects, including Henry Kissinger, Prince Charles, Bob Hope, Michael Moore, the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa.
Published on Friday 18th of May 2012 03:07:41 AM
Warren Christopher, former secretary of state, dies
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher died at the age of 85 Friday night, KABC-TV Los Angeles reported on its 11 p.m. newscast. Christopher attended the University of Redlands before transferring to USC, where he graduated in 1945. He was secretary of state under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. He died from complications of kidney and bladder cancer, KABC reported.
Published on Friday 18th of May 2012 03:07:41 AM
Didn't Do Your Homework
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Didn't Do Your Homework By City Weekly Readers Praise to City Weekly for its willingness to inform the world of The Sealed Portion when The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole [“Sealed Fate,” Jan. 27, City Weekly]. But what a disservice Stephen Dark does to readers, the LDS community and the world for mocking the man who holds the only solution that could end the worldwide economic crisis. In preparation for the story, Dark was invited to peruse Human Reality: Who We Are and Why We Exist or find a flaw, if...
Published on Friday 18th of May 2012 03:07:41 AM
YouTube-The Amazing Christopher
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YMCA puppet performance.
Published on Friday 18th of May 2012 03:07:41 AM
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