Dear Friends,

 I love these silences, these times just before the other shoe drops.  In the halls of power hardly a creature is stirring - not even an Asian chicken.  Even the explosion at the Palestine Hotel seems a distant echo – hardly a Tet.  This is the perfect time for reflection and a time to take stock.  Tomorrow all hell will break lose.  Tonight Calligula sleeps the sleep of the just.

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Following is a letter from a reader in response to Christy Cole's column  "To A Soldier, From A Citizen"

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I normally check the response a few days after the article has been hosted.  The response and letters is what keeps me going on 12 to 14 hours per day, apart from the anger against the criminal policies of the Anglo-Saxons . Many letters of praise I do not repeat to you .
 
Hers is a cute one from Albania,
 
 Mr Singh

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Re=Ramadan Muslims' Holy Month By Carol Wolman

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on Sept 11, 2005 I went to a rally with my daughter and Emily, In there I met Ameena . Shahram Vahdany

9-11

9-11 is the trigger for the dull black gun shooting relentlessly the droves of eastern bodies that apparently do not ache and bleed like the fractions of western bodies shot once. Images of crying, crimson-smeared faces, flashing in slow-mo across TV screens to euphoric melodies, humanized this one shot, while the millions of shots back flicker through empty skies and hazy terrains like candles swaying in the vacant air for America . The Iraqi boy, armless, scorched like a fire log at Christmas in Washington , is liberty for America . The thousands of babies swaddled in blankets of depleted uranium will erode for the sake of democracy. This is the payback, they say, for this assault on our building. Five years of gouging with gritty, star-spangled claws into the bellies of Iraq and Afghanistan is just recompense for this singular incident. The conversion of the origins of civilization into an ashtray in which we rub and rub our yellowed cigarette butts will ensure the preservation of civilization.

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Greetings from Düsseldorf!

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Perception and Reality at the NYT

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