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"Uncertain Principles" features the miscellaneous ramblings of a physicist at a small liberal arts college. Physics, politics, pop culture, and occasional conversations with his dog.

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Manute Bol

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Former NBA player Manute Bol spoke on campus last night. Bol, who was born in southern Sudan, is currently working with a group called Sudan Sunrise to promote peace and reconciliation efforts in that country, and specifically to build a...

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A Word from Our Middle East Correspondant

Category: Politics

Checking in from Cairo, Senior Uncertain Principles Middle East Correspondant Paul Schemm, with a wire story titled "Ultraconservative Islam on Rise in Mideast": Critics worry that the rise of Salafists in Egypt, as well as in other Arab countries such...

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Yemen

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And now, a report from Uncertain Principles's Senior Middle East Correspondent, checking in from Yemen in the wake of the attack on the US Embassy there: For years, the Yemeni government has let some al-Qaida figures and other Islamic extremists...

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Torture Is Wrong

Category: War

Fred Clark of Slacktivist points to the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, and specifically their Banners Across America project: NRCAT is making June the month for Banners Across America! We are asking congregations of all sizes, from every state, and...

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Heads in the Sand by Matthew Yglesias

Category: Booklog

I bought this thinking it was probably worth a few bucks to see how Matt reads without a distracting typo every four lines, and that I could always give it to my father when I was done.

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Neil Lewis of the New York Times

Category: Politics

A Times reporter and Union Alum speaks on campus about Guantanamo Bay, the "War on Terror" and the media in general.

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Dispatches from the Class War

Category: Class Issues

Via Inside Higher Ed, the Boston Globe reports that the Pentagon opposes increasing GI Bill funding. Why? Because if they gave them full tuition, eligible soldiers might not re-enlist: Now, five years into the Iraq conflict, a movement is gathering...

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September 11, 2007

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Baghdad Update: Mosques

Category: War

Some reliability issues with the Iraqui police who are supposed to be protecting mosques in Baghdad.

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Memorial Day

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It's Memorial Day in the US, which is the official public tribute to the dead of our various wars. This is marked with parades, and ceremonies at cemetaries in towns all across the country. When I was a kid, we...

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