Khouri's Notes: March 2008

March 29, 2008

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Smithsonian Magazine | Life Lists | The Smithsonian Life List Annotated

"We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to," novelist Graham Greene once wrote. A growing number of Americans of all ages are embracing that idea by renewing a resolve to live life to its fullest.

March 28, 2008

Discovered Today! 03/29/2008

VBS.TV Annotated

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The Writing Man's Burden | The New York Sun Annotated

tags: islam, literary, politics, quotes

fiercely attacked Mr. Amis for comments he had made to an interviewer on the subject of Islam. Musing on how to combat Islamic terrorism in Britain, Mr. Amis had said: “What can we do to raise the price of them doing this? There’s a definite urge — don’t you have it? — to say, ‘The Muslim community will have to suffer until it gets its house in order.’ What sort of suffering? Not letting them travel. Deportation — further down the road. Curtailing of freedoms.”