Celebrating human spirit, in all its impurity
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What if the Olympic Games --started here 2,780 years ago, right in this fertile, ancient town in the western Peloponnesus some 200 miles from Athens -- really mean something? ...
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The end of the year is nigh and parties are flexing our patience across the land. But Michael Herman warns the festive cheer and goodwill is not shared by online criminals.
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cornerstone of civilized behavior, ancient gesture of greeting among friends and strangers alike -- is in trouble. Politicians are avoiding it.
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Drizzle, long associated with dull days and the lowering of human spirits, is something to be celebrated, an American scientist says.
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I love international days of this and that. They are such grand occasions for leaders to remember some long forgotten agenda. The charitable among us hope that occasions
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The spring of hope, and the winter of despair. These are the mixed emotions that enunciate the prevailing paradox of our present society.
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CHRISTMAS, the season designed to celebrate the traditions which unite us, has instead become the Richter scale on which we measure the schisms which divide us.
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Paranoia, frustration, fear and even rage: not the typical emotions Americans experience when exercising their otherwise satisfying civic duty in the voting booth.
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By Anonymous  Editorial Perhaps it's churlish to preach prudence in an issue dedicated to a celebration of the growth of digital, but for those people around in the last internet boom, the sense of deja vu in current times is unsettling.
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ATHENS: Seldom have sporting moments of inconceivable pain and delirious joy covered more emotional ground yet been so difficult to distinguish.
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There's a ray of sunshine in all that gloom and doom.
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Comment is free: Richard Harries: We should recognise and celebrate good wherever we come across it
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By JOHANN HARI  In the black gloop of down-beat news on global warming and Iraq, we sometimes forget that, in at least one respect, we are living through a shimmering moment of progress that should fill us with awe.
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The animal can be a revelation of the human, but more often it appears as a contrast than a comforting reflection.
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A moment of pure glee, which happens before everything changes.
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Too often, those who make the greatest contributions to mankind pass away into obscurity, their legacy becoming one with the collective experience. One such man passed away this month. You may not know him or recognize his name, but you have cause to mourn his passing.  And what was his gift to the world? You need look no further than the grey image above these words.
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There may be something almost nostalgic in our celebration of a âheroic explorer.â