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Blogging Botswana
My traveling companion and I will be blogging from Botswana, where we will be doing human rights legal work all summer. FYI -
http://bloggingbotswana.blogspot.com
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May 28, 2007:
Boston - Atlanta - Johannesburg - Gaborone, Botswana
August 21, 2007:
Gaborone - Johannesburg - Atlanta - Boston
Then, immediately to New York City (my first time!) for the BU Law recruiting fair with all the big law firms, and then home to Detroit. That's a lot of plane time. -
life update
Some notes on my life ( Read more... ) -
Check your pockets!
Okay, so I am of course collecting state commemorative quarters like 90% of other Americans. Check your pockets right now. For pictures of the quarters and the program, check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_quartersRead more... ) -
LJ Question
As you may have noticed, I recently privatized my journal, so that only a tiny tiny few of my writings and photos are still visible (no more than 15 or so). I did a google search to see if there were any cached copies of my private entries existing in the world, and lo and behold I came across ljfind.com and ljseek.com, which have both catologued ( Read more... ) -
White settler politics in Africa
White settler politics in colonial Zimbabwe turned out to be far more tragic and devastating than white settler politics in colonial Kenya. If I were writing this entry in, say, 1930 or 1940, and I was to guess which white settler community would have fallen and which would have ascended to rule, I would probably have been wrong. In the early ( Read more... ) -
IOC Headquarters and Archives
kobalt is waiting for me so I have to hurry up ( Read more... ) -
Why DIDN'T South Africa become Northern Ireland?
The parallels are too obvious to ignore.
David Trimble and F.W. de Klerk had a lot in common. Two Nobel Peace Prizes for their work: South African Staatpresident F.W. de Klerk shared his prize with ANC President Nelson Mandela, while Northern Irish First Minister David Trimble shared his with the leader of the Catholic opposition, John Hume. The ( Read more... ) -
Torture
Torture is the opposite of a trial. A trial uses evidence to seek punishment, and the punishment is legitimized by the evidence presented. Torture uses punishment in pursuit of evidence, and it is the tortured individual's act of confession/betrayal against the regime that is necessary in the mind of the torturer to legitimize the act of torture ( Read more... )
