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    Apr 23, 2013 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  1. Elie Wiesel, history's witness

    It was a fine April day last week that found Elie Wiesel at Chapman University; it was a fine April day too, 58 years earlier, when the gaunt, teenage Wiesel found himself alive and suddenly free to walk out of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In the decades since, Wiesel's impassioned writing and speaking have won him a Nobel Peace Prize, and a large place in the public intellectual discourse about the Holocaust and the human condition. They have also brought him to Chapman each spring for the last three years as a distinguished presidential fellow, meeting with students and faculty to keep the significance of the Holocaust green in their minds.
    It was a fine April day last week that found Elie Wiesel at Chapman University; it was a fine April day too, 58 years earlier, when the gaunt, teenage Wiesel found himself alive and suddenly free to walk out of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In the...

    Tags: Germany, Nazi Party, France, Israel, Judges

    2. Mar 18, 2013 |Column| Baltimore Sun

  2. 'They don't want to go back'

    March is Women's History Month, but the headlines give us little to celebrate. Women who dare to attend protests in Egypt are routinely beaten and subjected to brutal "virginity tests." Girls in Afghanistan are beaten or disfigured for attending school....

    Tags: Sex Crimes, Feminism, Politics, Justice and Rights, U.S. Department of State

    3. Oct 8, 2012 |Column| WXIN-LTV

  3. Romney calls for strong U.S. role in world affairs

    Article Highlights:  - Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama has weakened U.S. influence - Romney backs conditions on foreign aid, U.S. help in arming Syrian rebels - The GOP challenger gives what his campaign calls a major foreign policy...

    Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, United Nations, Customs and Tradition

    4. Oct 3, 2012 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  4. Salman Rushdie, freedom writer

    In the 1990s, he was the world-famous novelist few people officially laid eyes on. Of Salman Rushdie's dozen-plus novels, it was "The Satanic Verses" (1988) that raised a hue and cry and sent him undercover: Its supposedly sacrilegious portrayal of the prophet Muhammad brought Rushdie a fatwa, a death sentence, from Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (it was lifted in 1998). The writer came to L.A. to accept the Library Foundation of Los Angeles' literary award and to talk about his new memoir of his underground years, "Joseph Anton." He and the book have arrived just as the blowback from "Innocence of Muslims" has caused us all to confront the questions that commandeered a decade of his life.
    In the 1990s, he was the world-famous novelist few people officially laid eyes on. Of Salman Rushdie's dozen-plus novels, it was "The Satanic Verses" (1988) that raised a hue and cry and sent him undercover: Its supposedly sacrilegious portrayal of the...

    Tags: Mormonism, Movies, Politics, Computer Networking and Internet, Christianity

    5. Sep 30, 2012 |Column| Baltimore Sun

  5. As Middle East burns, Obama fiddles

    Political consultants often use the term "optics" to describe how consequential events are perceived by the general public.
    Political consultants often use the term "optics" to describe how consequential events are perceived by the general public. With regard to the present Middle East crisis, the president's optics are way off course. There was the Las Vegas fundraiser...

    Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Politics, Applied Physics, Blindness, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.

    6. Dec 23, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. 2012: From Arab Spring to early winter

    Meteorologists know seasons are predictable. In the weather world, spring is always followed by summer. But the political world is different. Spring can proceed to summer, or it can lead to a sudden onset of winter.
    Meteorologists know seasons are predictable. In the weather world, spring is always followed by summer. But the political world is different. Spring can proceed to summer, or it can lead to a sudden onset of winter. That was the case this year in the...

    Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, International Law, Nobel Prize Awards, The Wall Street Journal

    7. Oct 8, 2012 |Column| WXIN-LTV

  7. Romney to assert strong U.S. role in world affairs

    Article Highlights: - GOP challenger Mitt Romney makes a foreign policy speech on Monday - Romney will criticize President Barack Obama's leadership in the world - Aide: Romney seeks the same U.S. foreign policy role since the end of World War II -...

    Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Customs and Tradition, Politics

    8. Apr 13, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. Woody Guthrie's music welcomes new multitudes

    Decades ago, Woody Guthrie wrote the sparse lyrics for a song he never got around to recording, “New Multitudes,” a plea to future generations to stay the course: “Give me my new multitudes/Gonna build my world over/Gotta have new multitudes.”
    Decades ago, Woody Guthrie wrote the sparse lyrics for a song he never got around to recording, “New Multitudes,” a plea to future generations to stay the course: “Give me my new multitudes/Gonna build my world over/Gotta have new...

    Tags: Music, Billy Bragg, John Steinbeck, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Artists

    9. May 7, 2011 | Chicago Tribune

  9. Did rivals finger bin Laden?

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    A civil war inside al-Qaeda? I hope no one sickens as the plot thickens--except the bad guys....
    10. Sep 14, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  10. Anti-American protesters attack U.S. and German embassies in Sudan

    World Now
    Muslim protesters burn German embassy in Khartoum and breach U.S. embassy: Anti-American protests across the Muslim world exploded Friday, over a controversial film made in the U.S. that attacks Mohammed and Islam. In Khartoum, hundreds of riot police...
    11. Sep 15, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  11. Mideast violence shows 'Arab Spring' still a work in progress

    World Now
    Global Focus: Anti-American violence sweeping the Muslim world has brought a sobering reminder in Washington and the West that the heady revolutions of the Arab Spring that threw out entrenched dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have yet to achieve...
    12. Sep 15, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  12. In Lebanon, pope calls on Christians, Muslims to join to end war

    World Now
    BEIRUT –- Pope Benedict XVI called on Christians and Muslims on Saturday to forge a common front against warfare, even as battles raged in neighboring Syria and the new U.N. peace envoy to that country conceded that the situation there was...
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