January 2012
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Letters of Note: To My Old Master →
Dayton, Ohio,
August 7, 1865
To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee
Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for...
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The Model Alliance →
What is the Model Alliance?
The Model Alliance is a not-for-profit organization that provides a platform for models and leaders in the fashion industry to organize to radically improve the conditions under which models work. Founded in 2011 by Sara Ziff, with the support of fellow models and the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School, the Model Alliance is an industry group working to...
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David Suzuki: What's So Radical About Caring for...
Huffington Post
Published: 1/18/12 12:45 PM ET
Caring about the air, water, and land that give us life. Exploring ways to ensure Canada’s natural resources serve the national interest. Knowing that sacrificing our environment to a corporate-controlled economy is suicide. If those qualities make us radicals, as federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver recently claimed in an...
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Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor
Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor
By Murat Kurnaz
New York Times
Published: January 7, 2012
Bremen, Germany
I LEFT Guantánamo Bay much as I had arrived almost five years earlier — shackled hand-to-waist, waist-to-ankles, and ankles to a bolt on the airplane floor. My ears and eyes were goggled, my head hooded, and even though I was the only detainee on the flight this time, I was drugged and...