Artiste Brian Goggin ascends a ladder at the intersection of Broadway and Columbus in North Beach, 11/23, to put the final touches on Language of the Birds, a new solar powered art sculpture designed by Goggin and Dorka Keehn. By Patrick Goggin November 30, 2008 In the spring of 1997 public sculptor Brian Goggin and [...]
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By Paul Cornish, Chairman, Chatham House International Security Programme November 30, 2008 Quite apart from the scores murdered and the hundreds injured, what the Mumbai terrorists really wanted was an exaggerated – and preferably extreme – reaction on the part of governments, the media and public opinion. In these terms, the attackers received as much [...]
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By Terry Canaan November 26, 2008 The presidential pardon has been a controversial matter since day one. Virginian George Mason would’ve been one of the signatories to the new constitution of the United States of America, but disagreed with basic ideas in the document — including the pardon — and refused to sign. On the [...]
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By Jim Meko November 25, 2008 Eight long years of focus groups, workshops and public hearings have sucked the very last few ounces of passion from the land use wars that once dominated the headlines and swept a progressive majority into city hall but, as the Eastern Neighborhoods rezoning process limps to its weary conclusion [...]
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 Elaine Santore Photos by Luke Thomas By Elaine Santore November 24, 2008 How to Party, Progressive Style Fog City Journal attended last Thursday’s Progressive Victory Party, held at the Independent, expecting a raging party (which it was) featuring a bunch of victory lap speakers and a bunch of progressives having too much of a [...]
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By Marc Salomon (with help from Brian Eno) Editor’s Note: Mr. Salomon wrote this article December 29, 2007. November 23, 2008 Baby’s on fire/Better throw her in the water/Look at her laughing/Like a heifer to the slaughter The year 2008 represents potential for a moment of transition for the world as the economic and political [...]
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The evocative East Village Opera Company returned to San Francisco Tuesday, performing at Caf̩ Du Nord. Photos by Luke Thomas By Luke Thomas November 22, 2008 For some nose-in-the-air opera purists, the East Village Opera Company may not be your cup of afternoon tea. But the for less pretentiously-minded music aficionados Рthose indiscriminate lovers [...]
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