Calliope
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If music be the food of love, play on
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« on: March 02, 2009, 11:39:40 am » |
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Anniversaries: Mar 2
Events
In 2000 Britain allowed the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to fly home, saving him from extradition to Spain where he would have faced charges of human rights abuses.
Births
Sir Thomas Bodley, scholar and diplomat who founded the Bodleian Library in Oxford, 1545; Doctor Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), writer, 1904; Karen Carpenter, singer who with her brother Richard sold more than 80 million records, 1950.
Deaths
Salomon Gessner, pastoral poet and engraver, 1788; Heinrich Olbers, physician and astronomer, 1840; D. H. Lawrence, novelist, 1930; Philip K. Dick, science-fiction author, 1982.
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[W]hat the internet and its cult of anonymity do is to provide a blanket sort of immunity for anybody who wants to say anything about anybody else, and it would be difficult in this sense to think of a more morally deformed exploitation of the concept of free speech.
- Richard Bernstein in the New York Times
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