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A novel embedded in history, enriched by poetry

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There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak is a large book delicately woven by a metaphor: drop of water falls into the river, whose particles are borne to the sky and fall again to the earth as rain, only to repeat itself. The image speaks to continuing cycles of human experience, starting at …

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Iraq: Hell no, we shouldn’t go

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President Obama said Friday the United States will not be sending American troops back into Iraq. That was firmer than his earlier comment that every possible response to the sectarian war was on the table.  The difference is a important.  Insanity, we are told, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Earlier that day, Fourth …

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