Ex-Detainees Return to Terror

Despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to terrorism, at times with deadly consequences

(from Associates Press, via Yahoo News).

Bush, Kerry Both Employ Fear to Get the Job Done

The attempt by both sides Friday to suggest that the other would put the country on risky ground seemed to fulfill what both sides had predicted: a harsh conclusion to an extremely close race

(from Los Angeles Times, via Yahoo News).

Rest in Peace, Superman

For my generation, Mr. Reeves will always be remembered as Superman, not only the character who bravely battled the evils of Lex Luthor, but also the man who gave hope to so many people who suffer from catastrophic injuries or live with a disability.  Through grit and determination, he proved that he was more than an actor portraying a hero, he, in fact, was a hero

(from beyondabsurdity).

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible...

- Bertrand Russell

New Lincoln Library Opens

Once the dusty domain of Civil War scholars, the thousands of artifacts and documents of the state's Abraham Lincoln collection are now in a library set to open this week, when curators will lay out the welcome mat to students, genealogists and amateur historians

(from The Chicago Tribune, via Yahoo News).

Derrida deconstructed

French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the founder of the school of deconstructionism, has died of cancer at the age of 74, France Info radio said on Saturday

(from CNN).

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