Hindustan Times 11/17/2008 By Amit Baruah Just around the time the MT Stolt Valor was being freed by Somali pirates, another Japanese vessel was hijacked off the Somalian coast. For us as a country, there’s no cause for immediate concern: no Indians were on board. Yes, there’s relief that the […]
GMU Broadside 02/18/2008 By Dan Abernathy George Mason University is no stranger to the color green. Anyone looking at the university colors – which happen to be green and gold – or the lush forestry surrounding our campuses can see the evidence. So it is no surprise that one of […]
UN News Centre 09/10/2004 Ministers from around the world meeting at the United Nations today discussed how to use the arts to spread peace, as the World Culture Open, a new international non-profit organization working to promote reconciliation, held its inaugural conference. Secretary-General Kofi Annan hailed the gathering, which this […]
New York Times 09/09/2004 By Randy Kennedy sk anyone at City Hall: bringing the Olympics to New York City is not an easy job. A group of ambitious businessmen and social activists have discovered that the same thing applies not only to the kind of Olympics that feature pole vaulting […]
Daily News-Record 04/14/2004 By Jeff Mellot Michael Shank, a graduate student at Eastern Mennonite University, felt encouraged, even heartened, after a 90-minute meeting Tuesday at the campus. EMU President Loren Swartzendruber called the forum to take questions and hear comments about the campus’ church-based, community lifestyle commitment agreement that critics […]
Richmond Times-Dispatch 04/14/2004 By Calvin R. Trice The Mennonite Church has the right to discriminate against homosexual conduct based on its beliefs, says the president of a church college here. Eastern Mennonite University President Loren E. Swartzendruber emphasized, however, that bigotry, name-calling and vilification are unacceptable at the school. Swartzendruber […]
Daily News-Record 01/24/2004 By Melvin Mason City Protest Calls For Free Elections In Occupied Nation Friday’s cold temperatures could not deter a group of protesters asking for elections in the newly liberated Iraq. Members of JustVoices, a group of local college students and residents, protested on Court Square at noon. […]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer 03/26/2002 THE ISSUE The Bonneville Power Administration is proposing to build a nine-mile, 500-kilovolt transmission line across the Cedar River watershed, which provides pure drinking water to 1.3 million people in King and Snohomish counties. The federal agency wants to install 40 new towers to run adjacent to […]
Seattle Weekly 03/20/2002 By Kevin Fullerton SLEET SIZZLED on the high-voltage power lines overhead as a contingent of Seattle city officials and environmentalists stood on a bluff overlooking the Cedar River—whose mountain rapids supply most of Seattle’s drinking water—and sized up their hosts from the Bonneville Power Administration. City officials, […]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer 01/30/2002 LaBounty makes radio pitch to save old-growth forests By Clare Farnsworth Coming soon to a radio station near you … Matt LaBounty extolling the virtues of preserving old-growth forests. What else would you expect from the Seahawks’ part-time defensive end and full-time environmental advocate, who has been […]