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People of Earth

Bill Gates said in an interview once that  one of the first things he learned in college was that there were a lot of people smarter than he was.  I think most of us come to appreciate different people and what they know because we realize early on just how much we don’t know.  There are [...]

In Remembrance of Peter Jennings

Shortly after the late local news on Sunday, Charles Gibson broke in to report that Peter Jennings had lost his battle with lung cancer. He was 67 years old.
Although I had read that he was in poor health since leaving the network in April, it had never occurred to me that he might die. [...]

The marine shooting

A U.S. marine shot and killed an injured Iraqi insurgent inside a Fallujah mosque last week. The incident has touched off a storm of media coverage because a reporter managed to catch the shooting on tape. It appears that the Iraqi was unarmed at the time of the shooting and that he did [...]