A Hopeful Action: Gilad Shalit and the Palestinians Release
CNN,
Egypt,
George Washington,
Gilad Shalit,
Israel,
Las Vegas,
Palestine,
middle east
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19th Amendment,
CNN,
Females,
Gamble,
Males,
Satire,
Testosterone,
health
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Arsalan Iftikhar,
CNN,
Egypt,
Shadi Hamid,
Thoreau,
Tunisia,
Yemen,
middle east This probably would not have caught my attention were it not for a thematically similar memo recently passed along at institutes of higher learning. I had never before thought before about the commonalities between journalism and education, but I now see that there are many. Both fields tend to draw from the same reservoir of talent- people who are idealistic, unusually perceptive, curious, and prone to judgment. Rarely will one find a teacher or journalist who is short for ideas, or without an active philosophy on living. And now, to an alarming extent, the powers that be within these fields are bent on quieting the voices that teachers and journalists are so inclined towards expressing.
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