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President Barack Obama Dithers While We Continue to Yearn For Change We Can Believe In

Saturday, August 28, 2010

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I recall asserting during an early phase of Barack Obama’s run for the presidency of the United States that he is somewhat flaky. This doesn’t mean he is a bad or incompetent person. To the contrary, he is apparently one of the most personally principled presidents in living memory. He is also [...]

Angry Feedback

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

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The old man who lives with his dog in a van at the end of my block is extremely angry with me.
Someone showed him the article I wrote about him last week for a local newspaper published by the Quakers. The newspaper, Street Spirit, is sold on street corners here in the Bay Area [...]

The Old Man who Lives with his Dog in a Van at the End of My Block

Friday, August 6, 2010

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I recently interviewed the old man who lives with a large dog in a battered, old van on the south end of my block.
He said he has been living in the van here in San Francisco for10 years, and he has spent the past two or those years in this rapidly gentrifying South of Market [...]

US Leadership Problems As Far As the Eye Can See

Thursday, July 22, 2010

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The more I survey the cast of largely uninspired characters who inhabit perches at the peaks of the most important power centers in the United States, the more deeply I am concerned the nation’s fate. I am not asserting that too many of them are corrupt, venal or criminal, though it is quite obvious [...]

Back to Basics:

Friday, July 16, 2010

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You may have noticed that I have been away for awhile. This was due to several factors, the most important being the fact that I had the site comprehensively remodeled in order to make it more convenient for me to post photo galleries and other material. I have also been on sabbatical for [...]

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THE RIVER OF NO RETURN

Among histories of the civil rights movement of the 1960's there are few personal narratives better than this one. Besides being an insider's account of the rise and fall of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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THE JIANGSU MIRACLE

The Jiangsu Miracle - Modernizing China's Most Economically Developed Province by Author Robert L. Terrell.
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