6 Toronto Star reporters

April 5, 2003

These six reporters are filing regular updates from Washington, Israel, Saudi Arabia, northern Iraq, Jordan, and the Syria-Iraq border. Interesting perspectives, check it out.

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A war on two fronts

April 5, 2003

People — not enough, but the numbers are growing — are rightfully up in arms about the increase in civil liberties violations in the name of new policies appearing seemingly deus ex machina. Dan Gillmor’s experience at the Ramada New Yorker hotel is an example at one end the spectrum, the case of Mike Hawash […]

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Civil Liberties Down the Tube

April 4, 2003

‘Been “disappeared” lately? ‘Sure you know where you live? The US? ‘Sure about that? Not Chile? Not Argentina? Several decades ago? Constitution, civil liberties? Ring a bell? Lost the remote? Read this instead: http://www.warblogging.com/archives/000603.php and write a letter to your newspaper, to your congressman, to your senator. Support the ACLU. Scream “fire!” at the top […]

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Eric Blumrich

April 3, 2003

In 1819 Theodore Gericault showed the Paris public a painting called “Scene of Shipwreck,” which eventually became known as “The Raft of the Medusa.” Gericault had been inspired to paint it by a recent (1816) scandal that implicated the French government in corruption and gross incompetence. (This link takes you to a page that gives […]

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Wheels on Fire: Global Opinions, Global Empires

April 2, 2003

[nb: all names/ nouns in double quotes are supposed to be links, but I couldn’t put them in live. I therefore included the URLs near the wished-for link in question. Perhaps I’ll have it straightened out for next time.] My children’s bicycles had been mothballed since our move here last June, but Victoria is year-round […]

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Dan Gillmor on SARS

April 2, 2003

If you are worrying a lot, or even a little, about SARS, read Dan Gillmor’s article, above, for some appropriate perspective.

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Update on SARS & schools

April 1, 2003

An update to the initiative taken by a Victoria-area private school in response to SARS: St. Margaret’s has reconsidered, asking the 18 girls who travelled to Asia to stay home in a voluntary quarantine, versus coming to school masked. Two other private schools are now taking additional measures to stop potential SARS outbreaks before they […]

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Powers of Discrimination & SARS

March 31, 2003

Here in Victoria British Columbia, our local paper, The Times-Colonist, included an article about SARS’s effect on one of the city’s private girls’ school. St. Margaret’s, which on March 31 ended a two-week spring break, is asking 18 of its students to wear surgical masks when they return to school. The girls in question are […]

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It Worked!

March 28, 2003

Welcome to your new weblog. This is the first post to prove that it worked. Click on the title of this item for tips on getting started with your new weblog.

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