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TERRORISM EVERYWHERE

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   In East Timor, Southeast Asia, 700,000 frightened people had to flee the terror of killings, beatings, indiscriminate shootings, and forcible displacement. They left behind a landscape laid waste by marauding militias. “I feel like a hunted animal,” cried one of the victims                 In Moscow an apartment building was ripped apart by a huge terrorist bomb blast. 94 bodies were dragged out of the rubbles, some of them children. Over 150 were injured.                 Hatred can well be described as a global epidemic. Almost every day, news reports reveal what happens when racial, ethnic, or religious animosity joins hands with lawlessness. We see unspeakably inhumane acts being perpetrated simply because some people are “different”             

MYSTERIOUS FACTS ABOUT OUR CHOICE

                                Robert Frost, in the last verse of “The Road Not Taken”                                          “I shall be telling this with a sigh                                            Somewhere ages and ages hence:                                            Two roads diverged in a wood, and I                                            I took the one less traveled by,                                             And that has made all the difference.”         It deals with my favorite philosophical question: CHOICE. What choices do we have and what do we do with those choices? We can ponder on endlessly how much of life is predetermined, how we are limited by heredity, intellect, social status, environment, economics. That is not the issue here; nor do I believe that it is important. However limited the choices, what matters is what we do with the choices we have.         Victor Franki survived the death camps of World War II to write in man’s