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Published on Thursday, 13 March 2008 12:03 | | 
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Cupcake Brown is a force to be reckoned with - an imposing figure of beautiful and proud womanhood.
By Clea Myers
The buzz is electric when she enters the forum that is hosting 'An Audience with Cupcake Brown' in East London's Bethnal Green Road. Having to yell over the applause, she asks who has read her best-seller, A Piece of Cake, and quickly re-phrases, asking who has not, while the cheers and whoops drown her out.
Published on Thursday, 03 April 2008 19:00 | | |
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The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world. It has 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s prisoners. What's gone wrong?
by Vida Adamoli
Statistics provided by the International Centre for Prison Studies at King’s College, London, show that the US puts 700,000 more citizens behind bars than China, whose population is five times larger. It also has 1,330,000 more people in prison than crime-ridden Russia. The fact that one out of every 32 US adults is either behind bars, on probation or on parole, indicates something is seriously wrong in the 'land of the free'.
Published on Tuesday, 01 April 2008 19:00 | | |
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General Lee Butler is former head of the US Strategic Command, with responsibility for all US Air Force and US Navy strategic nuclear forces. Even before he retired he had a radical rethink about nuclear weapons.
Nuclear
weapons are the enemy of humanity. Indeed, they're not weapons at all.
They're some species of biological time bombs whose effects transcend
time and space, poisoning the earth and its inhabitants for generations
to come.
Published on Friday, 11 April 2008 19:00 | | |
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AGONY
I slept with my best friend’s boyfriend when she was away in the States. We were both drunk at the time and to be honest I can’t remember much about it. We agreed we wouldn’t tell her but I haven’t been able to face her since. Should I tell her the truth? I don’t want to lose her friendship.
Published on Wednesday, 13 February 2008 10:02 | | |
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Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck were the UN
Humanitarian Coordinators in Iraq (1997-98 and 1998-2000 respectively), charged with implementing the UN-imposed sanctions on the ground.
Both resigned after witnessing at first hand the immense death and suffering caused by the sanctions. Here they speak at a recent conference about the present and future of Iraq.
Published on Thursday, 03 April 2008 04:25 | | |
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Written in the wake of the attacks on 9/11, Daisaku Ikeda argues for the need to establish nonviolence as a fundamental principle governing human conduct.
The 20th century was a century of war. Hundreds of millions died in its battles. What has humanity learned from that tragedy? In this new century, the 21st century, we must make the principle that killing is not acceptable or justified in any circumstances the fundamental ethos of humankind.
Published on Sunday, 13 April 2008 19:00 | |
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