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There was a NYTimes article today about school children in Cape Town, South Africa. They marched to City Hall and made their request – libraries and librarians. It was organized by a group called Equal Education. It appeared to be a sort of peaceful and organized repeat of what happened spontaneously in 1976. The article [...]
Three Cups of Tea
One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
VIKING Hardcover 2006 ISBN 0-670-03482-7
You’re stranded in the bitter cold of the Karakorum mountain range in Pakistan. You’re separated from your guide and friends, alone, and without proper gear. What do you do? [...]
Are you easily influenced? Do you know when you are being influenced? I would like to have said no and yes, to those questions, but after reading “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell I’m not so sure. Gladwell is the best selling author of “The Tipping Point” and most recently “Outliers”. All of these books have the [...]