3/16/12

Around the World

• Clooney & Kiir discuss security matters 
• George Clooney’s Sudan crusade
• Calls to end rape-marriage laws in Morocco
• The spark that kindled the Syrian uprising
• Palestinians prepare to lose solar panels
• Sarkozy tries to reassure French Muslims
• Israel & the plight of Mideast Christians
• Embracing Britain’s identity crisis

In These United States

• Clooney arrested outside Sudanese embassy
• GI accused of massacre ‘snapped under strain’
• The religious language in US foreign policy
• The trials of Greg Mortenson
• NYPD & city council clash over surveillance
• Japanese internment lessons and 9/11
• The tunnels underneath the Chicago
• Following the dreamers: what happened to the Seat Pleasant 59

Culture

• Byzantium & Islam in the age of transition
• 10 posts to help you work for yourself
• Hieroglyphs turn prisoner away from crime
• That seat is not taken: why black men love Southwest Airlines
• Please read this story, thank you: the erosion of ‘magic words’ from our vernacular

Multimedia

• Bosnian man walking to Makkah for Hajj
• ‘Blackwashing’ and the Israel lobby
• Fluent in 11 languages(!!!!)
• Jewish & Muslim scribes keep calligraphy alive (photo gallery)
• “Number One for Me” for mommas of rascally kids everywhere