http://www.tolerance.ca/Rubrique.aspx?ID=4&L=en Document Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:45:15 -0500 2010 Tolerance.ca en-ca http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=73916&L=en The Al Qaeda network today also comprises semi-autonomous or self radicalized actors, who often have only peripheral or ephemeral ties to either the core cadre in Pakistan or affiliated groups elsewhere, says a new Report prepared by the Congressional Research Service for members of US Congress and made public by Open CRS, a project of the Center for Democracy & Technology.   Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Document http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=67476&L=en So part of our challenge is reconciling these two seemingly inreconcilable truths -- that war is sometimes necessary, and war at some level is an expression of human folly. Concretely, we must direct our effort to the task that President Kennedy called for long ago. "Let us focus," he said, "on a more practical, more attainable peace, based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution in human institutions." A gradual evolution of human institutions. Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Document http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=56783&L=en [[video]] The story of America isn't about people who quit when things got tough. It's about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best. Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Document http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=55524&L=en Edward M. Kennedy – the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply – died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port. We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever. Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Document http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=51943&L=en by Phyllis Chesler On February 12, 2009, Muzzammil Hassan informed police that he had beheaded his wife. Hassan had emigrated to the United States 30 years ago and, after a successful banking career, had founded Bridges TV, a Muslim-interest network which aims, according to its website, "to foster a greater understanding among many cultures and diverse populations." Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Document http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=51248&L=en It is an extraordinary honor to be here, in the city where the NAACP was formed, to mark its centennial. What we celebrate tonight is not simply the journey the NAACP has traveled, but the journey that we, as Americans, have traveled over the past 100 years. Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Document http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=32682&L=en   [[video]] Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States, Inauguration. January 20, 2009, 12.05, Washington, D.C. Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Document http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=32436&L=en For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act -- not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do. Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Document http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=29361&L=en Obama's Victory Speech, Chicago, November 4, 2008. [[video]] Text : Remarks of President-Elect Barack Obama : Election Night Chicago, IL | November 04, 2008 If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Document http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=24596&L=en The following is the vidéo and the full transcript of the third and final McCain-Obama Presidential Debat held on October 15, 2008 at Hofstra University,  Hempstead, New York. The moderator was Bob Schieffer.   Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Document http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=8751&L=en In an Open Letter to Vladimir Putin, Ten scientists, including Nobel Prize winners Zhores Alferov and Vitaly Ginzburg, demand an end to the clericalization of Russian society : ‘We have watched with deepening concern the increasing clericalization of Russian society, the Church's infiltration of all areas of public life. The Constitution of the Russian Federation declares our country to be secular and separates the Church from the public education system. We address this letter to you Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Document http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=7887&L=en Memories of Snowdon in the 50's grew out of a photo I found in a book about Montreal streetcars by Thomas Grumly. I scanned the photo and sent it to a number of people I knew who had grown up in that area. The response was magic! "Do you remember...., wasn't that fun!...Remember the trips to......will you ever forget....." Those responses stayed with me until January 2006 when I bought an ad in the Personals section of a newspaper asking for contributions to "Memories of Snowdon in the 50's" Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Document Bill Conrod http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=4069&L=en By Rabbi Howard S. Joseph When I was very young a story told by my Rabbi made a lasting impression upon me. It is about a great East European sage of the early 20th century we call the Hafetz Hayyim, which literally means “ the Seeker of Life.” His real name was Rabbi Israel Mayer Hakohen but received his more famous title from a book he wrote about care in using speech. It comes from the verse in Psalms: who is the one who seeks life? Guard your tongue from evil and your lips from deceit. Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0500 Document http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=332&L=en Two years before his death, my father gave me a small suitcase filled with his writings, manuscripts and notebooks. Assuming his usual joking, mocking air, he told me he wanted me to read them after he was gone, by which he meant after he died. 'Just take a look,' he said, looking slightly embarrassed. 'See if there's anything inside that you can use. Maybe after I'm gone you can make a selection and publish it.' Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500 Document Orhan Pamuk http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=42&L=en In 1958 I wrote the following: 'There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.' I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still apply to the exploration of reality through art. Sun, 08 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Document Harold Pinter