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Teaching peace : students exchange letters with their teacher
\"To see if nonviolence could be taught, in 1982 Colman McCarthy became a volunteer teacher at one of the poorest high schools in Washington, DC. In the thirty-two years since then, he has taught peace studies courses for more than ten thousand college and high school students. Large numbers of those students have faithfully kept in touch with McCarthy, often with handwritten letters, and he has answered them with the same seriousness he brought to his columns and books. The exchanges rise to a rare kind of literature that blends personal warmth, intellectual honesty, and shared idealism. The discussions range from peace and war to a host of other issues of social justice, such as the death penalty, human rights, poverty, the living wage, animal rights, and vegetarianism. The wide-ranging letters suggest how teacher and students co-create a world of more love and less hate\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Animals and war
Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex is the first book to examine how nonhuman animals are used for war by military forces. Each chapter delves deeply into modes of nonhuman animal exploitation: as weapons, test subjects, and transportation, and as casualties of war leading to homelessness, starvation, and death. With leading scholar-activists writing each chapter, this is an important text in the fields of peace studies and critical animal studies. This is a must read for anyone interested in ending war and fostering peace and justice.
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Mother Teresa and the secular scribe
In 1971, eight years before winning the Nobel Peace Prize, 21 years after founding the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India, and 45 years before being canonized a saint by the Roman Catholic church. After the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1979, an editor at the Post asked me to prepare an obituary of Mother Teresa.
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Skills for a lifetime
\" \"Identify the problem.\" Since 1998, the room has been the operational hive of Little Friends for Peace. In 1988, the Parks relocated to the Washington area, and four years later, at 51, Jerry enroHed at the University of Maryland and in three years earned a nursing degree. \"Because of my father and brother being physicians,\" he recaHed in the Peace Room, \"medicine was in my blood.
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Give Hillary my best
[...]not that facts ever matter to Trump - Hillary has often witnessed to her Christianity, including a speech to an audience of 6,500 in April 2014 at a conference of United Methodist women in which she said: \"We need to wake up our world to what can and should be done\" and start \"rolling up our sleeves and taking the social Gospel into the world.\" During Bill's presidency, she and her husband and daughter, Chelsea, were regulars at Foundry United Methodist Church, a few blocks from the White House and one of Washington's most liberalized parishes.
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A smile and an uppercut that stings
The father laced up his sons with boxing gloves and set them to pounding a punching bag in the basement - all in the name of developing their manhood, of course. Pat's life-altering moment came in the 1950s, when he caddied for then Vice President Nixon at the Burning Tree Golf Club in Bethesda, Md. No women were allowed on the property except at Christmas, when they could buy gifts in the pro shop for their husbands.
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'Glitch list' won't stop the spending
[...]another kind of botching has been on display of late, compliments of Lockheed Martin, the military contractor based in Bethesda, Md. The nation's largest maker of killing machines has consistently botched delivering the F-35 Fighter jet to its loyal customers - the U.S. Navy, Marines and Air Force. Voices like Hartung, William Blum in Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire, Amy Goodman on Democracy Now, Gordon Adams in The Politics of Defense Contracting: The Iron Triangle and groups like the Project on Government Oversight deserve immense credit for exposing the reckless collusion between the makers, buyers and users of weapons.
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What Are the 'Best' Schools?
About a year and a half ban passed since Washington was astir with questions on where Barack and Michelle Obama would school their daughters. They
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Guthrie sang to agitate
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, who was born in 1912 in Okemah, OkIa., and died in 1967 at 55, powered his way through life by writing more than 3,000 songs, an autobiography (Bound for Glory), dozens of notebooks and drawings, and with a willingness to sing wherever the country's broke and broken would gather, from hobo camps to picket lines. From the mid-1980s to the late 1950s, the populist folksinger and his acoustic guitar came forward with songs like \"Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos),\" \"Vigilante Man,\" \"I Ain't Got No Home,\" \"Hard Travelin',\" \"Lonesome Valley,\" \"Hobo's Lullaby,\" \"What Are We Waiting On\" and \"This Land Is Your Land.\"
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Weapons give proof that the money's still there
Among the sudden vacuums in power in the Soviet Union, one of them-- the making and selling of weapons-- has been more than filled by the United States. In 1990, a year that saw 66 countries selling arms and 64 others ruled by military governments, the United States regained its supremacy as the world's leading death merchant.
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