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		<title>Ten Poems You Must Know (3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third post of a ten-part series. The first two introduced Langston Hughes&#8217; Harlem and Wilfred Owen&#8217;s Dulce et Decorum Est. One of Yeats’ poems was briefly mentioned in my previous post in this series, but the one you should really know is SECOND COMING William Butler Yeats Turning and turning in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=205&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Put away your toys, put on your clothes&#8212; We are going to be godly today. Stop stuffing your face&#8212; slow down, look at yourself. Turn down that noise Heavy with sin, let us begin to pick and choose our way &#8220;The time for rest is over&#8221;, he said. Learn to be nimble, retrain your gaze [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=430&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>retread&#124; If you&#8217;re going to do this Islam thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 13:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retreads are quality posts from yesterweeks that are given a second run on Fridays. This piece was originally posted by ABD on 4 May 2006. Welcome to the community. Now grab a bottle of water (or maybe a voice recorder), because ten seconds into any conversation with a Muslim you&#8217;ll have to repeat your conversion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=499&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Heart of the Believer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our guest contributor this week is ABD, a student of political theory and a one-time regular at othermatters.org. The heart of the believer is between two fingers of the Merciful. - Prophet Muhammad, on him be peace (Muslim, Ahmad) The women at the table in front of me&#8212;sisters, mother, date&#8212;lean in when he speaks. He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=484&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Memoriam: Amadou Cisse, 1978-2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8212; Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji&#8217;un. Indeed, to God we belong and to God is our return. I knew Amadou. I knew him by his knowing smile, his soft laugh and his shake of the head in response to something silly I might have said. I knew him by his recitation of the Qur&#8217;an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=424&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>retread&#124; Clarity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retreads are quality posts from yesterweeks that are given a second run on Saturdays. This piece was originally posted by ABD on 2 Nov 2006, and has been revised. Clarity doesn&#8217;t precede decisions, it proceeds from them. Someone heard or read this somewhere, and thought it insightful enough to pass on. I am reminded of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=398&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life is a Terminal Illness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is a terminal illness That shivers in the shadow of death &#8230; Work in progress. Suggestions welcome.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=402&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>retread&#124; Ethics as Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 19:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retreads are quality posts from yesterweeks that are given a second run on Saturdays. Here&#8217;s an ABD piece from 26 Oct 2006. For some time now, I have stopped looking for the perfect solution in politics. This does not mean that one does not exist, but only that such a prospect is no longer frightening [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=374&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>retread&#124; Ten Poems: Lovelace&#8217;s &#8220;Lucasta&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retreads are quality posts from yesterweeks that are given a second run on Saturdays. This piece was originally posted by ABD on 28 Sep 2006. &#8220;Love me as I am,&#8221; we hear. &#8220;Don&#8217;t try to change me.&#8221; We don&#8217;t love heroes anymore, or maidens or heroines or saints. We love our best friends, our lab [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=358&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Come In</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You once fit in the cradle of my knee: you&#8217;d come racing to me, bury your face in my shirt, and I&#8217;d just hug the hurt away. How do I reach you now when you stand alone on the shore, too far out to hear me, too tall to give in? Come in, my son, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=354&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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