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sun reflections: Human progress will prevail
By JAY WIENER
Thu,04/25/24-1:21PM , 215 Reads 7,511 Statewide
The first two of the final four sentences in Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech on the evening before his assassination in Memphis were “…. I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land.”
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sun reflections: V
By JAY WIENER
Thu,04/04/24-10:35AM , 234 Reads 4,111 Statewide
John Lennon’s “Revolution” (1968) observed that,
“… if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow.”
Circumstances in Russia — the Soviet Union — were no different, 55 years ago, than in “Red China.”
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Sun Reflection: "W" as in wanting
By JAY WIENER
Thu,03/28/24-3:01PM , 180 Reads 4,212 Statewide
“What’s in a name?
That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
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Opinion: India is incomparable
By JAY WIENER
Thu,02/22/24-3:01PM , 422 Reads 5,370 Statewide
Rudyard Kipling’s “The Ballad of East and West” (1889) begins, “Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.”
Where the two fail to meet is the Indian subcontinent. The disjunction between Asia and Europe makes the country endlessly fascinating.
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