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Ali, Tariq
Tariq Ali 1943-
Pakistani nonfiction writer, novelist, editor, playwright, historian, and journalist.
The following entry presents an overview of Ali's career through 2002.
Ali has been recognized as an important political and social commentator, establishing a reputation as a left-wing activist and journalist during the 1960s and 1970s. His work as an activist, journalist, editor, historian, playwright, and novelist has made him a familiar figure in British political and literary circles. In recent years, his writings have focused on the turbulent relationship between the countries of India and Pakistan and on British policies in the Middle East.
Biographical Information
Ali was born on October 21, 1943, in Lahore, India, a region that is now part of Pakistan. In 1963 he received his B.A. from Punjab University, and then attended Oxford University in England. During his college years in England, Ali developed his talents as a writer and served as the president of the Oxford Union. He gained attention for his activities as a left-wing political activist, protesting British involvement in the Vietnam War as well as its policies toward the Soviet Union. After graduating from Oxford, Ali began working as a journalist, writing about a variety of political, social, and cultural issues while also serving as a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review. During the 1980s, he owned his own independent television production company, Bandung, which produced programs for the British Broadcasting Company (BBC). He has been a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio and has also contributed articles and journalism to magazines and newspapers including The Guardian and the London Review of Books. Ali resides in England and continues to expound on current political conditions, such as the cultural conflicts in the Middle East and Persian Gulf regions.
Major Works
Ali has written a broad range of nonfiction, publishing first-hand accounts of life in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet Russia, memoirs and studies of the student movement in the 1960s, explanatory texts on Stalinism and Trotskyism, and modern political histories of India and the Balkan crisis. 1968 and After: Inside the Revolution (1978) and Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties (1987) both delineate events of the 1960s and comment on the turbulent political and social climate of the era. In Revolution from Above: Where Is the Soviet Union Going? (1988), Ali displays his investigative talents in an exploration of the socio-political conditions in the Soviet Union before and during the fall of communism. Turning his focus toward his homeland, Ali presented his personal analysis of the political relations between India and Pakistan in Can Pakistan Survive? (1983). Ali continued his examination of Indian culture with An Indian Dynasty: The Story of the Nehru-Gandhi Family (1985) which traces the history and influence of the Nehru-Gandhi family in Indian politics. As a response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, Ali published The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity (2002). The work explores the history of spiritual fundamentalism, arguing that the September 11 attacks were caused by a conflict between religious dogma and modern imperialism.
During the 1990s, Ali began to write and publish fiction that explores his interest in Muslim history and culture. Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (1993) is his first novel in a planned quartet detailing confrontations between Islamic and Christian civilizations. The book chronicles events surrounding the Banu Hudayl—an aristocratic Muslim family—in late fourteenth-century Spain. The novel opens with the burning of all Muslim books by Ximenes de Cisneros, Queen Isabella's confessor, and relates the misfortunes of the Hudayl family, including the struggles of patriarch Umar Hudayl, his son Yazid, and the fall of Islam in Spain. Ali's 1999 novel, The Book of Saladin, the second novel in the quartet, is a fictitious memoir of the ruler Salah-al-Din, who wrested Jerusalem from Christian control in the twelfth century. The work seeks to dismiss the stereotype of Saladin as a ruthless and godless conqueror, employing a modern sensibility in its depiction of European Crusaders in a distinctly negative light. The third installment in the series, The Stone Woman (2000), focuses on the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century as viewed through the eyes of one family, and in particular, through the eyes of its patriarch, Iskander Pasha. Iskander suffers a stroke, which leaves him partially paralyzed. As his lengthy rehabilitation progresses, many of his friends and family members come to visit. Over the course of the novel, Iskander seeks answers to the reasons behind the decline of his empire and attempts to reconcile his past behavior with his present emotions. Much of the narrative also focuses on his daughter, Nilofer, her relationship with Iskander, and the feelings and opinions of their other relatives. Ali's novel Fear of Mirrors (1998) is written in an epistolary style, taking the form of a letter from Professor Vladimir Meyer to his estranged son, Karl, in an attempt to explain the family history. The novel moves back and forth in place and time, covering several generations of Vladimir's family as well as the development of the early communist movement. Ali intersperses fictional characters with well-known historical figures, creating a narrative that recounts the rise and fall of communism and the reunification of Germany.
All of Ali's dramatic works have been written in collaboration with Howard Brenton, focusing strongly on the genre of "Instant History" plays—plays which are composed quickly to address timely social and political issues. Written in just over five days, Ali's play Iranian Nights (1989) was intended to act as a metaphorical response to the Islamic furor surrounding the release of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses. The plot utilizes several characters from Arabic folklore, including The Caliph and Scheherezade, in a tale about religious blasphemy and the nature of storytelling. Moscow Gold (1990) deals with the history of communism in the Soviet Union, following three women—Zoya, Katya, and Lena—as they experience and are affected by some of the major events in Soviet history, including the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, the election of Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev, and the dismantling of the Berlin Wall. Ugly Rumours (1998) satirizes the British New Labour movement, taking its title from the band that British Prime Minister Tony Blair formed while attending Fettes College. The play centers around Blair as he struggles to deal with national politics while being haunted by the ghost of Margaret Thatcher who lives in the attic of No. 10 Downing Street. Ali and Brenton have also joined with Andy de la Tour to produce Collateral Damage (1999), which concerns the Serbian-Croatian conflict, and Snogging Ken (2000), a satire about a London mayoral election.
Critical Reception
Ali's fiction and drama have met with mixed reviews, with critics generally favoring his plays over his novels. The plays Iranian Nights and Moscow Gold have been particularly singled out for their provocative political themes and nontraditional structures. His novels, in contrast, have received harsher criticism with some reviewers deeming them unimaginative and stylistically inferior. Several critics have faulted Ali for inadequate characterizations in his novels, while others have criticized his fiction citing such faults as overabundant metaphors, overuse of political jargon, and heavy-handed exposition. However, many commentators have applauded the pacing of Ali's storytelling as well as his humor and concern for authenticity in his historical novels, arguing that his later work appears more confident and mature. Critical consensus regarding Ali's political and historical studies has generally been favorable, with scholars noting his knowledgeable and intelligent treatment of Soviet and Middle Eastern politics. Nevertheless, some critics have found Ali's nonfiction to be needlessly polemic and marred by exaggeration, superficiality, and a lack of original information. In addition, several commentators have made similar observations regarding Ali's fiction, claiming his prose is predictable and overly driven by his own political beliefs. Julian Ferraro, for example, has stated that despite Ali's gripping subject matter, his writing often displays a "leaden touch." In general, reviewers have praised the epic historical detail in many of Ali's novels, but have conversely panned the author's abilities with narrative and prose. In his review of Fear of Mirrors, Ferraro continued, "The dialogue is either turgid with political analysis or wooden to the point of bathos. … and the trite conclusion provided by the final scenes seriously undermines the bleak complexities of the rest of the book." Overall, many commentators have agreed that Ali's unique background provides him with a valuable and intriguing perspective regarding world affairs.
Principal Works
The New Revolutionaries: A Handbook of the International Radical Left [editor] (nonfiction) 1969
Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power? (nonfiction) 1970
The Coming British Revolution (nonfiction) 1972
1968 and After: Inside the Revolution (history) 1978
Trotsky for Beginners (nonfiction) 1980
Can Pakistan Survive? (nonfiction) 1983
The Stalinist Legacy: Its Impact on Twentieth-Century World Politics [editor] (nonfiction) 1984
What Is Stalinism? [editor] (nonfiction) 1984
An Indian Dynasty: The Story of the Nehru-Gandhi Family (history) 1985
Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties (history) 1987
Revolution from Above: Where Is the Soviet Union Going? (nonfiction) 1988
Iranian Nights [with Howard Brenton] (play) 1989
Moscow Gold [with Howard Brenton] (play) 1990
Redemption (novel) 1990
*Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (novel) 1993
Fear of Mirrors (novel) 1998
1968: Marching in the Streets [with Susan Watkins] (nonfiction) 1998
Ugly Rumours [with Howard Brenton] (play) 1998
*The Book of Saladin (novel) 1999
Collateral Damage [with Howard Brenton and Andy de la Tour] (play) 1999
Masters of the Universe?: NATO's Balkan Crusade [editor] (nonfiction) 2000
Snogging Ken [with Howard Brenton and Andy de la Tour] (play) 2000
*The Stone Woman (novel) 2000
The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity (nonfiction) 2002
*Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, The Book of Saladin, and The Stone Woman are the first three novels in a planned four-part series focusing on the confrontation between Islamic and Christian civilizations.
Premen Addy (review date 22 July 1983)
SOURCE: Addy, Premen. "State of Faith." New Statesman 106, no. 2731 (22 July 1983): 24.
[In the following review, Addy credits Ali for his overview of the geopolitics of India in Can Pakistan Survive?, but faults him for not going beyond the "commonly held perceptions of the Left" in the book.]
The creation of Pakistan was for its founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, a triumph of will and tactical acumen. For the Muslims of the subcontinent, whose cherished homeland this was to be, its consequences were fraught with tragedy. Jinnah had fondly hoped to build the new state in his own image: liberal, cosmopolitan, secular. But, as Tariq Ali observes [in Can...
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William Crawley (review date February 1984)
SOURCE: Crawley, William. Review of Can Pakistan Survive?, by Tariq Ali. Asian Affairs 15, no. 1 (February 1984): 87-8.
[In the following review, Crawley outlines Ali's major thematic concerns in Can Pakistan Survive?]
Theorists of the left have been few in number in Pakistan and very limited in their influence. [In Can Pakistan Survive?] Tariq Ali writes from the position of one who though well known internationally is an outsider in his country's politics. He is equivocal about the validity and viability of Pakistan as a state. He dissects the political solutions and experiments which have been tried over the past thirty-five years, from the...
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Nicholas Murray (review date 5 October 1984)
SOURCE: Murray, Nicholas. Review of Who's Afraid of Margaret Thatcher?, by Tariq Ali. New Statesman 108, no. 2794 (5 October 1984): 33.
[In the following review, Murray provides a favorable assessment of Ali's introduction to Who's Afraid of Margaret Thatcher?]
This short book [Who's Afraid of Margaret Thatcher?] consists of two long conversations which took place at County Hall in June 1983 and April 1984 between the two red horned and tailed demons whom Steve Bell delineates on the cover. It is an essential sequel to the unpolitical Citizen Ken and a must for all Livingstone-fanciers.
Tariq Ali's trenchant introduction aims its...
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Akbar S. Ahmed (review date November 1984)
SOURCE: Ahmed, Akbar S. Review of Can Pakistan Survive?, by Tariq Ali. Journal of Asian Studies 44, no. 1 (November 1984): 239-41.
[In the following review, Ahmed criticizes Can Pakistan Survive?, calling the work simplistic, polemical, and "marred in general by non sequiturs and by exaggeration."]
Tariq Ali, the professional polemical student leader long resident in England, has written a polemical book [Can Pakistan Survive?]. The title, subtitle, and photograph on the jacket (Pakistan in flames) may be termed "sensational." The question in the title has been asked since 1947; the subtitle is premature.
Tariq's view of...
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Zareer Masani (review date 1 March 1985)
SOURCE: Masani, Zareer. "Tensions." New Statesman 109, no. 2815 (1 March 1985): 29-30.
[In the following excerpt, Masani notes the lack of new research and serious analysis in An Indian Dynasty.]
The lives of India's modern Caesars have already been the subject of copious biography; and Tariq Ali relies almost wholly on the work of his predecessors. But was there any point in a tedious repetition of the story if there was nothing new to add? There was certainly room for a study of the making of the dynasty and of the political culture that legitimised it. But that would have required new research and some serious analysis, neither of which appear in this hastily...
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Pratapaditya Pal (review date 19 May 1985)
SOURCE: Pal, Pratapaditya. "An Indian Dynasty." Los Angeles Times Book Review (19 May 1985): 7.
[In the following review, Pal contends that although An Indian Dynasty: The Story of the Nehru-Gandhi Family "was written and produced in less than six months, it is well documented, generally accurate and very readable."]
Thirty years ago, the non-aligned movement was born in an obscure town called Bandung in Indonesia. The chief architects of that conference were four remarkable men of this century: Tito of Yugoslavia, Chou en Lai of China, Nasser of Egypt and Nehru of India. Tito and Chou were rulers of communist governments; Nasser had come to power...
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Shiva Naipaul (review date 27 May 1985)
SOURCE: Naipaul, Shiva. "Family Affair." New Republic 192, no. 21 (27 May 1985): 26-30.
[In the following review, Naipaul discusses Ali's perception of and attitude toward twentieth-century Indian politics in An Indian Dynasty.]
No one interested in the 20th-century history of the Indian subcontinent can contemplate its dramas without the accompanying sensations of disquiet and distaste—even, on occasion, of outright revulsion. The plot, beginning with the struggles of the nationalist movement, is a complex and devious one, a spider's web of often incompatible ideals (Gandhi and Nehru may have been guru and disciple, but they also represented quite different...
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Nigel Fountain (review date 6 November 1987)
SOURCE: Fountain, Nigel. "Summer's Here and the Time Is Right." New Statesman 114, no. 2954 (6 November 1987): 28-9.
[In the following review, Fountain describes Ali as an "informative, funny, and illuminating writer," lauding his prose in Street Fighting Years.]
Is it the right title? Mick Jagger joined the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign marchers as they moved on Grosvenor Square in March 1968 and, hey presto, two months later, out popped 'Street Fighting Man' and thus, I suppose, the cue for the title of Tariq Ali's autobiography [Street Fighting Years]. Yet brooding on his entertaining reminiscences of those times my mind slipped to a 1964 waxing by...
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Robert Irwin (review date 28 April 1989)
SOURCE: Irwin, Robert. "The Poet and the Infidel." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4491 (28 April 1989): 456.
[In the following review, Irwin compliments Iranian Nights, calling the play humorous and thought-provoking.]
"'Why it's Ali Baba!' Scrooge exclaimed in ecstasy. 'It's dear old Ali Baba … And the Sultan's Groom turned upside-down by the Genii; there he is upon his head! Serve him right. I'm glad of it. What business had he to be married to the Princess!'" [In Iranian Nights] Tariq Ali and Howard Brenton, depressed and challenged by book-burnings, clenched-fisted mobs, death threats, fire-bombings and holy gangsterism, have...
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Boris Kagarlitsky (review date 5 June 1989)
SOURCE: Kagarlitsky, Boris. "The Truth about Perestroika." Nation 248, no. 22 (5 June 1989): 765-67.
[In the following review, Kagarlitsky compares Ali's Revolution from Above to Anthony Barnett's Soviet Freedom.]
The Soviet Union is too important to be left to Sovietologists. This precept is central to Revolution from Above, by Tariq Ali, but it could just as easily be applied to Soviet Freedom, by Anthony Barnett, which was published in London six months earlier. The two books almost beg for comparison. Both authors are radicals; neither had studied Soviet society before. Tariq Ali had edited a very interesting collection of materials...
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Daniel Singer (review date October 1989)
SOURCE: Singer, Daniel. "The Intelligentsia and Soviet Change." Monthly Review 41, no. 5 (October 1989): 61-4.
[In the following excerpt, Singer applauds the thought-provoking nature of Ali's Revolution from Above.]
Tariq Ali is no Sovietologist. Born in Pakistan, educated at Oxford, he was one of the leaders of the protest movement in Britain in the 1960s and has been a prominent figure of the New Left ever since. Because he is essentially an activist and not a Kremlinologist, the author conveys the feeling that history is here in the making, that the Soviet Union is at the very beginning of a period of monumental change. A stranger, a visitor, he manages to pass...
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Carol Rumens (review date 5 October 1990)
SOURCE: Rumens, Carol. "The Perestroika Pageant." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4566 (5 October 1990): 1069.
[In the following review, Rumens calls Moscow Gold "gripping," and lauds the play for its bold, contrasting scenes and innovative stage construction.]
Three hours' worth of perestroika for beginners ought to be boring. While alive to the broader issues at stake in Moscow, Tariq Ali and Howard Brenton add little to the arguments already sketched for us elsewhere in the media and, some neat one-liners notwithstanding, their language is often as clichéd. Yet Moscow Gold is gripping. Dramatically as well as visually it evokes...
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David Widgery (review date 12 October 1990)
SOURCE: Widgery, David. "Berty Khan's Revenge." New Statesman and Society 3, no. 122 (12 October 1990): 42-3.
[In the following review, Widgery offers a mixed assessment of Redemption, contending that too much of the novel "smacks of an adolescent desire to violate the orthodoxies the author once staunchly propounded."]
Comic novels about the left, like Ethyl Mannin's Comrade, O Comrade, about the 1945 split in the Anarchist Federation of Britain, have a habit of not being very funny. The wittiest accounts are, like Claude Cockburn's true. Tariq Ali's qualifications as the Evelyn Waugh of Trotskyism are debatable, though his publisher, whose...
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Paul Kincaid (review date 9 November 1990)
SOURCE: Kincaid, Paul. "Iron Curtain Call." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4571 (9 November 1990): 1214.
[In the following review, Kincaid derides Ali's prose in Redemption, noting several weaknesses in the plot and stating that the book "is a comedy, but humour is less in evidence than silly portentousness."]
Far from the promised redemption, this crude first novel [Redemption] smacks of revenge. The various factions of Trotskyism, for which Tariq Ali was such a vocal and visible spokesman during the 1960s, are here mercilessly ridiculed as invariably brutish, ignorant and sexually perverse. Most of the factions appear to consist of no more than...
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Alfred Evans, Jr. (review date January-April 1991)
SOURCE: Evans, Jr., Alfred. "Gorbachev's Unfinished Revolution." Problems of Communication 40, nos. 1-2 (January-April 1991): 133-43.
[In the following excerpt, Evans praises certain portions of Revolution from Above, but faults others, asserting that the book ignores many complexities of the Soviet political arena.]
[Revolution from Above,] by Tariq Ali is similar to the on-the-scene reporting of well-informed political journalists in Western and Asian democracies. A series of topical essays on Soviet politics in 1987 and 1988, the book is based largely on extensive interviews with well-placed Soviet sources. Ali expresses the enthusiasm of one who...
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Alamgir Hashmi (review date winter 1992)
SOURCE: Hashmi, Alamgir. Review of Redemption, by Tariq Ali. World Literature Today 66, no. 1 (winter 1992): 210-11.
[In the following review, Hashmi outlines the major themes of Redemption.]
Tariq Ali comes to fiction from a respectable writing career in politics, history, biography, and, most recently, stage drama with a sharp focus on the contemporary world. On Christmas Eve 1989, in Paris, [in Redemption,] as the seventy-year-old Trotskyist patriarch Ezra Einstein watches on TV a Ceauşescu executioner make the sign of the cross, he seems even to forget the bliss of his late married life, he whose "fingers had rested more often on the keys and body...
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Robert Irwin (review date 1 May 1992)
SOURCE: Irwin, Robert. Review of Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, by Tariq Ali. Times Literary Supplement, no. 4648 (1 May 1992): 20.
[In the following review, Irwin discusses Ali's utilization of exposition and metaphors, faulting what he deems to be Ali's lack of imagination in Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree.]
"We are living in the most difficult period of our history. We have not had such serious problems since Tarik and Musa first occupied these lands. And you know how long ago that was, do you not?"
Yazid nodded. "In our first century and their eighth."...
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Akbar Ahmed (review date 22 May 1992)
SOURCE: Ahmed, Akbar. "The Moors Murdered." New Statesman and Society 5, no. 203 (22 May 1992): 39-40.
[In the following review, Ahmed provides an overview of Ali's life and career, tracing his development as an author through Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree.]
A review of Tariq Ali's new novel [Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree] requires a review of the author. In the 1960s, when he emerged as a student star in Oxford, I admired him, in common with most Pakistani undergraduates in England then, for his rebellious energy and boldness. He appeared to capture the mood of his generation.
When he became President of the Oxford Union, the press was...
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Amit Chaudhuri (review date 9 July 1992)
SOURCE: Chaudhuri, Amit. "Here Is a Little Family." London Review of Books 14, no. 13 (9 July 1992): 18-19.
[In the following excerpt, Chaudhuri maintains that Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree is "a strangely refreshing work in that it gives us a warm and indulgent picture of a certain section of Islamic life."]
Tariq Ali's novel [Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree] is about a noble family of great renown in Moorish Spain. The lives and culture of this family and its retainers are on the edge of extinction: either they must convert from Islam to Christianity, or die at the hands of the armies of Ferdinand and Isabella. The emotions, conflicts and...
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Douglas Allen (review date fall 1992)
SOURCE: Allen, Douglas. Review of Revolution from Above, by Tariq Ali. Southern Humanities Review 29 (fall 1992): 361-63.
[In the following review, Allen examines the central issues discussed in Revolution from Above.]
Since he came to Oxford University from Pakistan and became one of the radical leaders of the 1960s, Tariq Ali has been a prominent figure on the British Left. His books include Can Pakistan Survive?, An Indian Dynasty: The Story of the Nehru-Gandhi Family, and Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties. His orientation can best be described as that of an independent, democratic, anti-Stalinist Marxist/socialist:...
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Carl Caulfield (essay date December 1993)
SOURCE: Caulfield, Carl. "Moscow Gold and Reassessing History." Modern Drama 36, no. 4 (December 1993): 490-98.
[In the following essay, Caulfied analyzes the role of history in Moscow Gold.]
The Revolution has shifted the theatre of our critical operations. We must review our tactics.1
Moscow Gold is Howard Brenton and Tariq Ali's second theatrical collaboration, after their satirical, metaphorical response in 1989 to the Rushdie affair in Iranian Nights. Moscow Gold dramatizes what its authors see as a need for a reassessment of Soviet history and Communist ideologies, but the play...
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Christopher Hitchens (review date 4 June 1998)
SOURCE: Hitchens, Christopher. "Acts of Violence in Grosvenor Square." London Review of Books 20, no. 11 (4 June 1998): 14-15.
[In the following excerpt, Hitchens contends that Ali provides a vivid portrayal of the 1960s world climate in 1968: Marching in the Streets.]
I was just beginning to write about 1968 when I learned of the death in New Orleans of Ron Ridenhour, the GI who exposed the massacre at My Lai. He was only 52, which means that he was in his early twenties when, as a helicopter gunner in the area, he learned of the murder of nearly 660 Vietnamese civilians. This was not some panicky 'collateral damage' firefight: the men of Charlie Company took...
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Julian Ferraro (review date 3 July 1998)
SOURCE: Ferraro, Julian. Review of Fear of Mirrors, by Tariq Ali. Times Literary Supplement, no. 4970 (3 July 1998): 20.
[In the following review, Ferraro praises Fear of Mirrors for its examination of characters who serve political ideals, but faults the novel for its trite conclusion and "wooden" dialogue.]
Fear of Mirrors, Tariq Ali's third work of fiction, is a political novel. The book's narrative spans the twentieth century, from the last years of the Austrian Empire to the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the reunification of Germany. Its central character, Professor Vladimir Meyer, is an East German Communist, a former...
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Kate Kellaway (review date 13 November 1998)
SOURCE: Kellaway, Kate. "Playing at Politics." New Statesman 27, no. 4411 (13 November 1998): 36.
[In the following review, Kellaway discusses the tone and pacing of Ugly Rumours.]
There is a madwoman in the cellar of No 10 Downing Street. Her name is Margaret Thatcher. Her triple-stringed pearls are intact but her twin-set suit, though tightly buttoned, is adrift with cobwebs. She needs dusting but does not know it. She is, in Sylvia Syms' entertaining portrayal of her, a merry but slightly sinister ghost. She still sees herself as the most influential person in the country. She carries about her person a "Thatcher extractor", a sort of portable Hoover...
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Ranti Williams (review date 4 December 1998)
SOURCE: Williams, Ranti. "The Heart of a Warrior." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4992 (4 December 1998): 23.
[In the following review, Williams asserts that The Book of Saladin vividly depicts the sweep of history, but fails to develop its characters adequately.]
Saladin is one of the few figures to have emerged from the bloody, brutal history of the Crusades with any measure of dignity. Legend and history concur in presenting the Kurdish warrior who led the Muslim reconquest of Jerusalem in 1198 as a man whose integrity and compassion more than matched his sense of religious destiny and military skills. [In The Book of Saladin,] Tariq Ali's...
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Bruce King (review date winter 1999)
SOURCE: King, Bruce. Review of Fear of Mirrors, by Tariq Ali. World Literature Today 73, no. 1 (winter 1999): 219.
[In the following review, King offers a negative assessment of Fear of Mirrors, calling the work confusing, poorly written, and clichéd.]
Fear of Mirrors belongs to a literary subgenre that has not been fashionable during recent decades. Like many political novels, it attempts a grand story and has an epic feel resulting from the characters' involvement in major historical events. Tariq Ali tells of the rise and fall of communism as experienced by some Central European Jews who, rebelling against their enclosed society and against...
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Jane Jakeman (review date 8 January 1999)
SOURCE: Jakeman, Jane. "Novel of the Week." New Statesman 128, no. 4418 (8 January 1999): 55.
[In the following review, Jakeman maintains that The Book of Saladin is a fulfilling read, utilizing "sparse prose" filled with exotic settings in order to create a realistic portrait of the sultan.]
[The Book of Saladin] is a work of fiction based on a historical character who has attained quasi-mythical status in both east and west. To the Muslim world, he is a rallying cry, an almost superhuman conqueror, an utterly virtuous religious figure as the commander of a holy war, leading the charge onward at sword point as the famous equestrian statue at...
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Nina Raine (review date 24 April 2000)
SOURCE: Raine, Nina. "Three Men and a Manifesto." New Statesman 129, no. 4483 (24 April 2000): 43-4.
[In the following review, Raine discusses the collaboration between Ali, Howard Brenton, and Andy de la Tour and the resulting play Snogging Ken.]
Somewhere in Highgate, north London, three men are sitting round a kitchen table writing a play about the London mayoral election. One of them frets. One of them soothes. And one of them complains about ugly sentences. They are Andy de la Tour, Tariq Ali and Howard Brenton respectively.
I sit on the sofa, next to a pink book entitled Socialism and Democracy, an Arsenal scarf and a cap which claims...
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Royce Mahawatte (review date 1 September 2000)
SOURCE: Mahawatte, Royce. "At the Summer Palace." Times Literary Supplement, no. 5083 (1 September 2000): 11.
[In the following review, Mahawatte contends that although The Stone Woman is "rich, erudite and admirable," it tries to achieve too much and fails on a number of levels.]
The Stone Woman, the third instalment in Tariq Ali's Islamic Quartet, owes a great deal to the nineteenth-century tradition of humanistic drama within historical debate. Although the novel is rich, erudite and admirable, it is overambitious in its aims and uneven in its achievements. Set near Istanbul at the end of the nineteenth century, the novel centres on the...
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James Hopkin (review date 11 September 2000)
SOURCE: Hopkin, James. "Turkish Delight." New Statesman 13, no. 662 (11 September 2000): 56.
[In the following review, Hopkin argues that The Stone Woman is a captivating and complex novel.]
The third novel in a planned quarter charting the tensions between Islam and Christianity, Tariq Ali's The Stone Woman sets up the Pasha family from Istanbul as a microcosm of the Ottoman empire at the end of the 19th century. Drawing on a rich tradition of mythmaking and storytelling, Ali creates an enchanting, sometimes harrowing, fable of a family whose stability and harmony, like the empire to which they belong, is largely predicated on undisclosed information...
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Justin Huggler (review date 30 November 2000)
SOURCE: Huggler, Justin. "I Prefer to Be an Ottoman." London Review of Books 22, no. 23 (30 November 2000): 35.
[In the following review, Huggler explores the major thematic concerns of The Stone Woman.]
No country in the Islamic world has embraced the West as eagerly as Turkey has, which makes it an intriguing setting for the third novel in Tariq Ali's Islamic Quartet: a series of snapshots of the great historic collisions between the two cultures, taken from the Eastern point of view, The Stone Woman is set as the 19th century draws to a close. With the Ottoman Empire in terminal decline, Ali sends the members of a wealthy and aristocratic Turkish family...
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Bruce King (review date winter 2000)
SOURCE: King, Bruce. Review of The Book of Saladin, by Tariq Ali. World Literature Today 74, no. 1 (winter 2000): 245.
[In the following review, King surveys the strengths and weaknesses of The Book of Saladin.]
Tariq Ali is not only a journalist and filmmaker; he is also an old-fashioned novelist who likes to write large books on important issues and big themes. The Book of Saladin is the second novel in an intended quartet treating the confrontation between Islam and Christianity. The first novel, Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, concerned the fall of Islam in Spain. The Book of Saladin is the story of the rise of Sultan Yusuf Salah...
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Bruce King (review date winter 2001)
SOURCE: King, Bruce. Review of The Stone Woman, by Tariq Ali. World Literature Today 75, no. 1 (winter 2001): 111.
[In the following review, King pans The Stone Woman, contending that Ali is not a "natural novelist" and that he lacks the ability to realistically tell a story.]
The Stone Woman is the third installment in Tariq Ali's "Islamic Quartet." Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (1999) concerned the collapse of Muslim Spain with the fall of Granada; The Book of Saladin (1998; see WLT 74:1, p. 245) told of the events leading to the reconquest of Jerusalem from the Crusaders; this new novel is a family saga set at a...
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Tariq Ali and David Barsamian (interview date November 2001)
SOURCE: Ali, Tariq, and David Barsamian. "Tariq Ali." Progressive 66, no. 1 (January 2002): 31-4.
[In the following interview, originally conducted in November 2001, Ali discusses the relationship between the United States and Pakistan as well as the worldwide war on terrorism.]
Tariq Ali was born in 1943 in Lahore, in what was then British-controlled India. He was educated in Pakistan and then at Oxford. His opposition to the military dictatorship in Pakistan during the 1960s led to permanent exile in Britain. He was active in the anti-war movement in Europe during the late 1960s.
Ali is a longstanding editor of New Left Review and has...
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Mick Hume (review date 13 May 2002)
SOURCE: Hume, Mick. "Expect Blowback." New Statesman 131, no. 4587 (13 May 2002): 50-1.
[In the following review, Hume compares and contrasts The Clash of Fundamentalisms with Gilles Kepel's Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam.]
Like some dreadful progressive rock album of the 1970s, Tariq Ali's new book [The Clash of Fundamentalisms] seems likely to become better known for its cover than its contents. The cover is intended to illustrate what the author calls "the clash of fundamentalisms" by depicting George W Bush as a mullah and Osama Bin Laden as a US president. It succeeds only in illustrating, unintentionally, this messy book's own identity...
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Richard Sennett (review date 7 June 2002)
SOURCE: Sennett, Richard. "They Mean Well." Times Literary Supplement, no. 5175 (7 June 2002): 6-8.
[In the following review, Sennett compares and contrasts the central arguments of The Clash of Fundamentalisms with Fred Halliday's Two Hours That Shook the World.]
What did the United States learn from September 11? The massacre has hardened the unilateralist arteries of the Government; many old scores from another era, such as isolating Cuba and North Korea or punishing Iran, are being settled today in the name of fighting terrorism. The American people remain angry, but many are increasingly bewildered by the world beyond America's borders. The plaint of...
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Anthony Arnove (review date 8 July 2002)
SOURCE: Arnove, Anthony. "Islam's Divided Crescent." Nation 275, no. 2 (8 July 2002): 25-6.
[In the following review, Arnove offers a generally positive assessment of The Clash of Fundamentalisms, but argues that the work would have been stronger if Ali had proposed alternatives to modern Islamism.]
On September 23, 2001, midpoint between the horrific events of September 11 and the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, the New York Times ran an intriguing headline. "Forget the Past: It's a War Unlike Any Other," it advised, above an article by John Kifner noting that "Air Force bombers are heading toward distant airfields to fight a shadowy foe...
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Sara Powell (review date November 2002)
SOURCE: Powell, Sara. Review of The Clash of Fundamentalisms, by Tariq Ali. Washington Report on Middle East Affairs 21, no. 8 (November 2002): 102.
[In the following review, Powell praises The Clash of Fundamentalisms, calling the work "a must read."]
There's an old saying that you can't judge a book by its cover. With Tariq Ali's latest offering, however, many people do. You can't miss it: a picture of George Bush in Osama bin Laden's beard and turban, against a blood red background. As we have taken it to conferences throughout the summer, the cover has sold a lot of books, and generated even more double takes. (The back cover shows Bin Laden in a...
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Further Reading
Erol, Sibel. Review of The Stone Woman, by Tariq Ali. Middle East Journal 55, no. 2 (spring 2001): 340-42.
Erol views The Stone Woman as a historical soap opera and describes the novel as superficial, contradictory, and unfulfilling.
Rhodes, Fred. Review of The Clash of Fundamentalisms, by Tariq Ali. Middle East (September 2002): 65.
Rhodes praises The Clash of Fundamentalisms, noting that the work "blends history, literature, politics and autobiography to challenge the conformist culture of our times."
Smith, Jeremy. Review of The Clash of...
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Someone reminded me recently that October is Pastor Appreciation Month. I'd forgotten about this amid a major strategic planning initiative at the parish, sermon writing, liturgical planning, pastoral care, etc, etc.
Also because it's the lamest thing going. Think Hallmark holiday for clergy but instead of Hallmark it was created by cheesy clergy supply houses. How do I know this? I sampled some of the gift items you can purchase for your pastor to show your appreciation.
That's not to say you shouldn't appreciate your clergy. Far be it from me to suggest you should only pile up complaints or assume someone else will thank them for their ministry. It's not an easy vocation. But if you do feel moved to show your appreciation, please don't do so with any of these gifts. Believe me, it won't be "appreciated."
Nothing says "I appreciate my pastor" quite like engraved faux crystal in the shape of a cross. Actually you get a bonus cross since not only is this mantel-worthy item shaped like a cross, it also depicts one. Bonus!
What pastor wouldn't want to show off his or her vocational pride with a brown and white "Pastor" trucker hat? And how clever that the "T" is really a cross!
Most clergy I know drink a lot of coffee. Okay, maybe I'm projecting slightly but there are plenty of pastor mugs to choose from — though some say "Safe Church violation" more than others.
One creative way to show your appreciation is by putting a bumper sticker on your car. Sure it's a bit creepy and misguided but "Honk if You Love Jesus" is so yesterday.
In addition to coffee, most pastors love cake. Surprise your pastor with a cake at coffee hour and you'll be very popular. Of course if you really appreciate your pastor you won't make him/her share the cake with everyone at church and you'll just deliver it personally to the parsonage at 10:45 pm on a Saturday night.
If you're big into transference as a psychological phenomenon (see Rabbi Edwin Freidman), why not give this framed picture to your pastor? This is also perfect for the pastor with a major Messiah complex.
The last thing you would want to do in showing appreciation to your pastor would be to ignore the spouse. This Pastor's Wife "poem" would be a dream gift for any woman who stands by her man of the cloth. (Sorry, the Pastor's Husband poem doesn't appear to exist).
Of course if you really want to show your pastor/clergy/priest some appreciation, take a moment to share how his or her ministry has led you to a place of transformation or spiritual growth. Embrace Christian discipleship. Be a passionate follower of Jesus Christ. Start a new ministry. Reach out to someone in need. Lend an ear. Make a donation to a charity in his/her name like Episcopal Relief & Development.�Or be passive aggressive about it and donate a pig through Heifer International.
And if that doesn't resonate, you can always show up with a "real" gift.


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GOWANDA – Resid-ents were given the chance to voice their opinions on the proposed school budget at a budget hearing hosted by the Gowanda Board of Education recently.
The proposed budget for the upcoming school year will total $27,388,487. The amount is a 3.99 percent increase over the 2012-2013 budget. The estimated tax levy will be $4,844,036 or a 3 percent increase. The tax rate is estimated to be $15.12. Business Executive Joelle Woodward said the tax levy and the tax rate is based on current information. Assessment values won't be available until July. The tax rate is a 3.03 percent increase over last year's rate of $14.68.
Woodward said there is a substantial increase in the board of education line in the budget but that is for the hiring of a board of education clerk. Woodward used to serve as district clerk with another employee from the business office helping. The other employee's salary for the clerk was located in a different part of the budget and the newly hired clerk during this current school year is not making any more than the previous position.
"During the early part of the 2012-2013 school year, we hired a district clerk.
Before I was serving as your district clerk with no compensation but we had another employee who was split between two offices and their salary came out of a different line item," Woodward said. "When we coded that line item and labeled it as district clerk … it made a huge impact percentage wise because there's very little money budgeted in that grouping to begin with."
The district saw an increase in state aid of 2.65 percent but will see a decrease in Native American aid of 7.13 percent. Voters will have a proposition in addition to the budget. The district is looking to purchase three vehicles not to exceed $273,931. The district is looking to purchase two 66-passenger buses and a 29-passenger vehicle. The district will also trade in six vehicles.
"For some reason if the state withdrew the state contract amount on these vehicles and they increased in price, we would have to adjust what we were purchasing. We would have to purchase less … we cannot exceed the expenditure amount the voters approve," Woodward said.
Five 66-passenger vehicles will be traded in. They are model year 2005 with 126,000 miles, model year 2005 with 98,000 miles and four model year 2007 with miles ranging from 85,000 to 120,000 miles. One 29-passenger vehicle will be traded in that has 105,000 miles. The bus purchases will be eligible for 90 percent state aid and will have no impact on the budget. The buses would cost $27,393 after state aid from reserves.
Following the budget presentation, residents were able to ask questions in regards to budget. Resident Janet Vogtli asked if there will be a library proposition to vote on. Woodward said since the library proposition has not changed since last year, it will not be a proposition. Resident Joe Vogtli asked how the school budget keeps increasing and enrollment is decreasing.
"From what I can recall the budget goes up about $1 million a year and I know about 60 percent is uncontrolled. … I think there's three areas that we can address that impact how much we spend, transportation, food services and classroom size," he said.
President Mark Nephew said the board will take all considerations into putting together the budget next year.
If the budget does not pass, the district could go out for a second vote on the budget, make changes to the budget before going for a second vote, or go with a contingency budget. In the contingency budget, the tax levy cannot be higher than the 2012-2013 budget levy. A contingency budget would be $27,367,936 and would be a 3.91 percent increase. Voters will also vote on two empty seats on the board of education. Ann Martindale and Lynn Guzzetta are both running for the open seats. Voting will take place on Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the middle school library.
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Skip to comments.Fox To Cancel 'The Wanda Sykes Show' (HaHa)
Posted on 05/14/2010 4:33:20 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
EXCLUSIVE: I hear Fox is canceling The Wanda Sykes Show Wanda Sykes after one season. The late-night talk show started off strong but tumbled in the ratings as the season went on and fell below the performance of predecessor MadTV in the Saturday 11 PM hour. Fox has options for the late-night Saturday slot. It has been actively developing sketch comedies this pilot season and ordered two pilots, one written by and starring Dana Carvey and Spike Feresten, with another, from Jamie Foxx and MadTV creators Fax Bahr and Adam Small.
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ROTFL!!! When was it on?
Not a shocker there.
Saturday, late night
I had no idea he/she/it had a show in the first place.
The shows kidney's failed - they acted stupidly.
Sykes is a piece of excrement that stinks out loud-!
They still need to sterilize and fumigate the studio.
People were confused as to whether she loves bush or hated Bush.
I kept hoping she was sketching and her bits would change .. but NOOOOOO .... the dyke is a for real race baiting hater of anything American, decent and good.
I'm sure they were motivated by racism. /s
How are your kidneys doing, Wanda?
Please, please, please let George Lopez be next...
"Fox To Cancel 'The Wanda Sykes Show'"
Who is Wanda Sykes, and why would she have a show on Fox?
I heard she threatened to eat him.
You know, I found certain moments of Lopez' sitcom to be funny, but his talk show is the dregs.
Did you hear the one about the unfunny black bigot?
His show came on after "Earl" the other night.....I hit the button on the remote so hard that neither my thumb nor my remote have yet recovered.
Wanda should just stick to doing voice-overs for computer-animated cartoons. Didn't she try a TV show before that also failed?
I want my Mad TV back.
Fox To Cancel 'The Wanda Sykes Show' (HaHa)
Now that's funny!
Hell, it's easy enough to cancel her,........just flush twice and pray the turd she is swirls down and out!
Which is probably EXACTLY what Rupert Murdoch said to himself when surfing the channels late one recent Saturday?
Create a show that blasts the Marxist, libtards the Left and have an immediate hit.
But no....
Please let Shep Smith be gone gone gone.
Yes! Buh-bye Wanda!!!
My kidneys hate Wanda but the rest of me could care less.
Fox To Cancel 'The Wanda Sykes Show' (HaHa)
There is still hope for this country.
(and I'm not joking when I say this)
Ms. Sykes has all the anger of Don Rickles,
all the profanity of...well, insert name of some potty/fart/cursing
"comedian" here...
and none of the fun/insight/truth-telling of all the others.
When ever I've seen the words "comic", "comedienne" or "entertainer"
associated with Ms. Sykes...
I say that "truth in advertizing" doesn't apply to her.
the ironic thing is he probably would support Sykes even though his white wife gave him a kidney when his failed. I have never liked her but would never wish kidney failure on anyone, even her.
Sykes....what a piker
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Tips and variations on two of our favorite spring time ingredients�peas and garlic.
Amelia Saltsman, writer, cooking teacher, and author of the award-winning Santa Monica Farmers� Market Cookbook, revels in the farmers' market�in the common and not so common ingredients. Pea shoots and green garlic being two in the "not so common" category. Here are Saltsman's suggestions for cooking with the two under utilized�ingredients:Green Garlic �Green garlic, also called spring garlic, is a young garlic plant pulled from the ground before the bulb forms cloves,� Saltsman explains. �It has a mild flavor with a hint of green vegetable.� � Look for young tender-looking plants with a straight bulb end and bright green leaves. � Use the whole plant, tops and all like green onions or scallions, in soups, saut�s and salads. � Saut� green garlic as a topping for grilled or pan-fried fish or use as the star ingredient in Green Garlic and New Potato Soup. Pea Shoots �Pea shoots, also called pea tendrils, are the ends of sugar snap pea plants that haven�t yet developed pods or flowers,� Saltsman says. �They add the flavor of fresh peas to a dish in a crisp leafy green form." � Look for tender small leaves and stems. Use the stems and curly tendril if they are tender; discard any tough parts. � Saut� shoots in a small amount of butter or avocado oil seasoned with salt and white pepper until the shoots are shiny and bright green. Top with a squeeze of fresh lemon and serve as a quick side dish. � Make Fava Bean and Pea Shoot Salad. Substitute, if desired, English or snap peas for the fava beans and different herbs or lettuces. Turn into a main dish by adding boiled eggs or a thick slice of feta cheese to each serving. �By Carol M. Bareuther Brought to you by: Relish


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Champions for change!
Champions for Change were recognized on the Marquette basketball home court. These Champions are building sustainable solutions to problems in Milwaukee and beyond.
Good Money Challenge
Show us your dual mission enterprise that makes money and does good! Year 2 (2013 winners and recap) of Midwest's first competition platform, presented by Brady Corp.
Tackling Wicked Problems
In Oshkosh, WI, over 100 community members "tackled wicked problems" with a three day learning series focusing on the power of social innovation to attack root causes with sustainable, measureable models.
Greg Dees, in memory, with gratitude
A pioneer in social entrepreneurship, Dees helped show how the theory and practice of entrepreneurship and innovation could be blended with social missions to tackle poverty, pollution and other global challenges.
Cristo Rey Milwaukee
A Cristo Rey High School (a social innovation model for urban education) is projected to open doors to its inaugural class in Fall of 2015! The school is currently soliciting applications for the position of Principal.
Dr. Andrew B Williams, named one of Milwaukee's most creative
Can humanoid robotics help solve social problems (video here) related to health and education? Featured on the cover of Milwaukee Mag, interviewed by Fox 6 News, and taking place in MU's HEIR Lab! Support the project here!
Dollarvoting.com, 2013 winner of MU social innovation design contest
Over 20 teams of undergraduate honors freshmen, business students, MBA students, and graduate Trinity Fellows pitched their sustainable model in the Marquette contest on Dec. 3rd.
Tina Rosenberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist
2013 Social Entrepreneur in Residence, guest of the Social Innovation Initiative and Marquette Law School. Photos here.
FixesU, partnership with the NY Times
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Social Innovation Leadership Experience, Encore!
SILE encore! Nov. 11th presentation explored how social innovation and leadership development intersect to equip nonprofits to move beyond just managing their organizations to leading to positive social change. More here.
Dr. Carolyn Woo, President & CEO of Catholic Relief Services
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Anyone got a sewing machine that's not too precious to them that they would be willing to lend to me to run crafty activities at Meadows Fest? I'm planning to run a free shop with some re-vamping vibes on the side. Obv I would look after it and return it to you afterwards! Would be a great help!
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Newly soloed student pilot Pete Nardo and his CFI, Ron Klutts, decided to fly from Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County (KPAO) to Palm Springs, Calif., for AOPA Summit last week. The trip exposed Nardo to lots of Southern California airspace, but he got much more out of it than that.
Nardo is at that giddy "I love flying and I want to shout it from the rooftops!" stage. Apart from AirVenture (yes, he's been there and plans to go again), there wasn't a better place on Earth for him to express that joy and revel in it. He got to see the Flying Wild Alaska pilots and learn about bush flying in Alaska; he wandered the static display and exhibit hall; he attended many thought-providing educational seminars; and he got to spend every waking minute immersed in aviation.
It was a treat to talk about airplanes with Nardo over a sushi dinner at Summit, because his excitement was contagious and reminded me that we all should strive to nurture our love of GA. Meeting new pilots–at your airport, at a pancake breakfast, or at a national aviation venue–is a great way to do just that.—Jill W. Tallman


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Skip to comments.Anthony Weiner now top mayoral choice among male Democratic voters: poll (NYC males love Weiner)
Posted on 05/29/2013 6:52:22 AM PDT by jimbo123
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Just more proof that Democrats are nitwits.
In the old days, there wouldn't have been enough tar and feathers to handle all the slimeballs in New Yawk!
keep in mind NY Daily News is NYT's lite
Rigid support for Weiner rising?
My guess is that those NY Girls like that skank from the cable show "Girls" like him a whole lot, too!
Actually that's a good backhanded anti Weiner slogan.
NY men for Weiner
Real men want Weiner
Disappointing......but not at all surprising.
Male democrats and little wieners have been in bed together for some time.
The problem is his competition on the Dem side is even more ridiculous. Incredibly unready for prime time. If a moderate to liberal Republican appeared from somewhere he could win.
Hillary does NOT prefer Weiner
He's calling for young interns (heard on Fox this morning). I guess he needs new sexting partners and young women to harass. If they elect this perv they deserve what they get.
Whip it out for Weiner!
In your face America!!! The DUmmies are at it again!
Must be a shortage of tar in NY...
I grew up and lived in New York city until last year when I finally got smart and moved. Best decision I ever made in my life. You can only take so much living around complete and utter morons.
The vampire? (actual photo)
Or the perv?
Welcome to NYC politics!
Humas formative years were spent in Saudi Arabia absorbing her parents Muslim Minority Affairs agenda. She returned to the United States from Saudi Arabia to attend George Washington University, where she was an executive board member of George Washington Universitys Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Muslim Students Association. The creation of the Muslim Students Association had resulted from Saudi-backed efforts to establish Islamic organizations internationally in the 1960s, for the purpose of spreading Wahhabist ideology across the globe. It is not surprising that Huma gravitated towards this organization when she left Saudi Arabia to attend college in the United States.
Huma also carried out her parents work. She served as an assistant editor for the IMMAs Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs for twelve years, leaving shortly before she joined Hillary Clintons State Department in 2009. Her brother Hassan Abedin and sister Heba Abedin still serve in that capacity.
CAIR influenced MSM
This just shows what the average Male Democrat is - a Jackass.
Just more proof that
Democrats New Yorkers are nitwits.
Those New Yawk "men" really love those Weiners.
Weiner pulling his political levers.
Wow, the democrap spin machine is in full display here
Just announced the other day, and already he is in the lead...
Look for him to be called "Front-runner Weiner" from here on out
Sound familiar?
I wrote to Fox News many times and told them Mitt Romney's first name was NOT "frontrunner", and Getting ONLY 30% of the vote does not make you a 'frontrunner', it actually means that 70% voted AGAINST you...
They never had a lot of either, although their self-ESTEEM is boundless
Just add an "and" between Democrats and New Yorkers and you got it just right.
It ain't that there are too many idiots in NYCity, it's that lightning is not distributed correctly.
That will work in China town.
Saudi Arabia Among Biggest Donorsto Clinton Foundation
Bill Clinton accepts huge Saudi donation for his library
Well he's no worse than Bloomberg. It will just be more of the same. Plus when you don't live there its hard to care. :-)
Big question .....
Will he attempt to rollback or repeal any of Nanny Bloomberg's works of evil?
Is he anti-gun, as well?
You can't do your poll sample at fire island and expect validity....
Well, they're Democrats, so naturally, they want to celebrate and embrace a pervert over someone with some common sense and moral principles.
Would have seemed inconceivable that perv Weiner could even run, much less win. But I can sadly envision it nowadays.
America has become such a sick, depraved nation.
Yeah, some places more than others.
That's right, they're going to replace one prick with another one.
So, the men of NYC are looking forward to the day Weiner is the Mayor-Erect!!
They're not "low-information voters"; they're low intelligence voters.
Yeah...Huma Abedin as New York's First Lady.
She'll be the victorious moslem cherry on top of the destruction of the Twin Towers.
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We have a new Tavern Brawl this week! Its name is Spellbook Duel.
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He was a hero to my wife Teresa. We had the honor of sitting with Mandela over the Thanksgiving holidays in 2007. I was struck by his warmth, openness and serenity. I stood in his tiny cell on Robben Island, a room with barely enough space to lie down or stand up. I learned that the glare of the white-rock quarry permanently damaged his eyesight. After spending 27 years locked away, after having his own vision impaired by the conditions, I wondered how this man rejected enmity and still managed to see so clearly the best interests of his country and even embraced the very guards who kept him prisoner.
The only explanation was that Madiba's vision resided not in his eyes but in his conscience.
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About the Author: John Kerry serves as the 68th Secretary of State of the United States.
There are many Nelson Mandelas incarcerated by repressive regimes we'll never know about, nor ever remember, for lack of public exposure, in the silence of the "disapeared".
A soul rests now, a life's work complete. But for humanity, the work is never finished and to truly honor his legacy , folks must continually become inspired to think.
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Wanted to wish you'all the very best this holiday season, and inquire about the lack of text in my comment which I believe I submitted originally sometime around Nov 18th...and what's taking so long for comments to be posted up on site?
Would someone please send me an email and let me know what's going on?
As it stands my comment is unrecoverable on my end as my thoughts in the moment, hot off my brain pan into your hands I figured wouldn't just go "poof" and disapear into eathernet thin air...so I never made a copy.
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