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SUNDAY 4/20/08

Iraqi cleric threatens 'open war'
Five years in... fury continues to eat what feeds it, grief flows through oily veins. Rage isn’t vacant... it’s occupied.

US Church needs purification, pope says
US church? That’s not all, your holiness, your church, your collusion, your cleansing, our war, our apathy, our worship of you.

Rice asks neighbors to offer Iraq debt relief, ties
Asking to borrow sugar from your neighbors is a custom I can comprehend, appreciate. Asking for their home isn’t.

No Fortissimo? Symphony Told to Keep It Down
Music, you noisy bully, earsplitting thug, you’ll deplete us of our beloved auditory sensations, a mother’s unbearable grief, a father’s hell-dipped shriek, a child’s startled cry, war’s rise.



© 2008 mrp/tpm

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