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Friday, January 18, 2008 - Posts
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An Iraqi woman refugee in Syria tells her story . Read More...
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So after spending the whole day at The Softball games..and grounding out in the last inning with 2 outs and bases loaded.(Pissed me OFF) and after losing the 3rd straight game in extra inning.. i went home to find out that my Grandfather had a heart attack Read More...
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I have no idea how it feels to be utterly loved.
I am the place a person falls to when life gets hard. I am the shoulder, the keeper of secrets, the kindness through their pain. I am the wisdom, the knowledge.
I have no idea how it feels to be utterly Read More...
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The headline of a sympathetic op-ed piece in Al Quds al Arabi about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is "Who Killed the Pretty Leader?" And just in case we missed the title and may at any moment forget or doubt that she is pretty the writer, a former Read More...
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As I have said before, I am currently working on programming projects. One of the projects that I am working on is a chess engine. Making a computer program that plays good chess (Its in the 2000-2100 ELO points range ). I started this project a long Read More...
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One of those few friends you’d ever get to love like a brother, religious connotations aside. O nezel 3al dabkeh il lawee7 il shater… Sami. We all miss you. It sucks that you couldn’t come this year too. Mark your calendar for late June, Read More...
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Ramona and Beatrice. James and the Giant Peach. The Twits. Wakadoo Zoo. Warm eyes. Silken hair. Gentle hands. A soft embrace. "But Miss Rhonda please! I don't WANT to be the Narrator! I want to be the Professor! How come Yousef gets to be the Professor? Read More...
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I don't normally post three times in one day, but Emily just sent an email that broke my heart again. Blogger Emily is a sixth grade school teacher who is fully invested in her students. And her student, McKenna, just lost a mom to cancer: "I have a prayer Read More...
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It's that time again. Time to dig a littler deeper into the matters of the heart. Motivations of the heart. Hardness of the heart. Places in the heart that I prefer left unexamined by the piercing light of God's word and the sword of God's Spirit. Oh, Read More...
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I previously endorsed the 'individualist' line that discrimination is bad insofar as (and for the reason that) it involves ignoring individuality and treating people as mere 'tokens of a type'. I didn't see any necessary reason to focus on historically Read More...
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Goodness . ( HT ) Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Government backed study has revealed. It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs Read More...
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hey all, so i think this is not a new idea, but it is better when a bunch of people do it together. The idea is to write down the songs which will make anyone feel better in case the person is feeling down. it is important to note that the songs should Read More...
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The main objection to Scanlon's separation of intention and permissibility comes from the suggestion that we not only ought to do the right thing, but do it for the right reasons . Perhaps, one might suggest, this is the only permissible option. Not only Read More...
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Suppose you had to pick one word to describe yourself. Your first reaction, I assume, is that it is impossible. You are so many different things, in so many different contexts. No one word can capture more than a tiny... Read More...
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I have purchased 100 boxes of cheap band-aids from this balding, barrel-chested icon of the Mecca St. stoplight of Rabia/Um Uthayna. He always gifted us with a gap-toothed smile and a kind word, and we would save up stuff for his family of 8. He showed Read More...
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Cairo is amazing, I’ll post more on my Cairo trip soon, meanwhile vote for Nile. Technorati Tags: egypt, cairo, nile, trip, tourism Read More...
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Gmail is spying on you! I have been thinking about the pension system in Jordan. I will not complain about how disorganized the Social Security Coproration is, or how difficult it is to understand anything like getting figures,info or whatever. I have Read More...
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[self-portrait by Aziz Amoura]
“You are not looking! You can’t see what you need to see. LOOK DEEPLY. CONCENTRATE on what you’re seeing. It is amazing how you can’t see anything! How did you imagine those ugly gray scribbles over Read More...
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ارتكبت الذنب العظيم و رفضت العريس. كسرت حلقة الضغط و انتصرت لنفسي. هزمت امي و اخواتي و المجتمع. نفضت الكابوس عن نفسي و اعلنت ولائي لها. حطمت حاجز الخوف و رميت نفسي في احضان المجهول. فضلت حضن المجهول على حضن العريس, فايقاني باستحالة تمضية حياتي مع هذا Read More...
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