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20th November, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘1963’

Tears of…

By Denis Campbell • Aug 28th, 2008 • Category: Features
… what, no one can put it into words. I watched at midnight here in the UK as Senator Hillary Clinton, in the most magnanimous of unifying gestures, stopped the vote count by asking the convention to suspend its rules, ensure all of the ballots are counted and accept her floor nomination of Barack Obama [...]



I Have A Dream

By Denis Campbell • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics
For Our EU Friends Who May Never Have Seen This

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as [...]



In Praise of Lions

By Denis Campbell • May 21st, 2008 • Category: Features
Senator Ted Kennedy was escorted by police motorcade from Mass. General Hospital in Boston back to the Kennedy Compound in Hyannisport this afternoon. A smiling Ted waved to reporters and as he has so many times during the tragedy that seems to dog this American family, he spent his time in hospital boosting the spirits [...]