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Archive for April 16th, 2008
How to Prosectute a Religious Sect
Marci Hamilton lends her legal analysis of what is turning out to be a very complicated situation in Texas. The Christian Science Monitor, gets into the nitty-gritty of the court battle. In a sidebar audio commentary, reporter Faye Bowers discusses certain similarities between the lives of young women within a polygamous religious sect in Texas [...]
War Poet Wednesday
While war may rob and subvert language, simplifying the grandest of catastrophes, the political realm can rob poetry of its soul, hijacking poetic language for its own gains. James Winn, author of The Poetry of War shows us how poets strike back. If you haven’t caught it yet, read Winn’s article in The Chronicle of [...]
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