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That Was The Week That Was … a bit subdued, but continuingly disjointed — the first paragraph illustrates: news from Iraq, Capital Hill and the Pentagon … all speaking a different language, setting a different course … as if all three were separate planets spinning in their own space/time with no connection to one another.

This also marks the week in which we have apparently lost the baiji, a species of blind white dolphin indigenous to China, and the first large mammal to go extinct as a result of destruction of their natural habitat. From this report:

The Baiji dolphin was colloquially known as the “Goddess of the Yangtze” and was regarded as a symbol of peace and prosperity.

Hurts the Heart.

Jude

HARPERS WEEKLY REVIEW

In Baghdad, at a gathering place for poor Shiite laborers,
the owner of a truck filled with wheat announced that he
was looking for workers. A crowd gathered around the truck
and it exploded, killing 70 people and wounding 236. It
was revealed that billions of dollars in Iraqi oil
revenues had not been spent, and the head of Iraq’s
Commission on Public Integrity was accused of
graft. Outgoing Representative Cynthia McKinney (D., Ga.)
introduced a bill to impeach President George W. Bush for
misleading Congress on the war in Iraq and implementing an
illegal domestic spying program. President Bush said that
any new strategy for Iraq would have to wait until early
next year. Donald Rumsfeld gave a farewell speech in which
he warned that the threat of terrorism is not gone. “Not
once, in public or in private,” said Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace about Rumsfeld, “did I
ever hear this man try to shift responsibility to anyone
else but himself.” The Taliban established a “mini-state”
in Peshawar.

A study found that standard-sized condoms were too large
for the men of India. The National Institutes of Health
said that circumcision is an effective method to limit
heterosexual transmission of HIV, but Kevin De Cock,
HIV/AIDS director of the World Health Organization, warned
that circumcision was “not a magic bullet.” An Oregon
fraternity brother shot a homeless man who was collecting
cans behind the frat house, a hunter in Wisconsin shot a
seven-legged deer, and a Texas lawmaker introduced
legislation that would allow the blind to participate in
“the fun of hunting.” The Marine Corps ordered a sergeant
to call off an online auction that gave the highest bidder
the right to rename him; bids included “King Taco” and
“Sgt. Finest Freshest Fastest.” The governor of Alaska
announced she would sell a private jet that had been used
for state business on eBay, and federal investigators
announced that airline pilots should follow procedures to
make sure their airplanes take off on the right
runway. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport removed
fourteen Christmas trees after a local rabbi threatened a
lawsuit if officials did not add an eight-foot menorah to
the arrangement, and Iran held a conference to examine
whether the Holocaust happened. Paul Barnes, a senior
pastor at a 2,100-member evangelical megachurch in
Colorado, stepped down after admitting to sexual relations
with men, and Dr. Tony Campolo, a Baptist minister and
professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University in
Pennsylvania, said that evangelicals had been “very, very
mean to the gay and lesbian community.” An international
war crimes court sentenced a Rwandan Roman Catholic priest
to 15 years in prison for ordering his church crushed by
bulldozers while 2,000 ethnic Tutsi remained inside, and
former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, who is said to have
strangled Emperor Haile Selassie with his bare hands and
buried him under a toilet, was convicted of genocide by an
Ethiopian court.

The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly was found to have
downplayed the health risks of Zyprexa, its best-selling
medication for schizophrenia. British geneticists
investigating the case of a 10-year-old Pakistani boy who
could walk on burning coals announced that they had
discovered a gene that influences the perception of
pain. They could not examine the boy directly because he
had died after leaping off a roof to impress his
friends. The NBA decided to replace its new microfiber
composite basketball with the previous leather version
after players complained about the new ball’s grip and the
way it hurt their skin. Ralph Nader, calling himself “an
advocate for all workers, no matter their salary,” wrote a
letter in support of the old ball. The British police
concluded that Princess Diana’s death was an accident, and
in response to the deaths of three anorexic models, the
fashion industry held a forum that called for internal
regulation. “We would much rather come up with a way of
self-policing ourselves,” said one modeling agency chief,
“than have regulations rammed down our throats.” Lettuce,
rather than green onions, was deemed responsible for the
Taco Bell E. coli outbreak; however, suggested a health
official, “it would be folly at this point to drop the
cheese completely.” Moses Hardy, who at 113 was the second
oldest man in the world and the last surviving black
U.S. veteran of World War I, died in Mississippi. Police
and firefighters on Long Island rescued a veteran who had
walled himself in with a seven-foot-high pile of fecal
matter and other debris, and Representative Charles Rangel
(D., N.Y.) said President Bush was in “deep shit.” The
baiji, a species of blind white dolphin extant for 20
million years, was declared extinct, and two dolphins who
had swallowed toxic plastic were saved by the world’s
tallest man, who used his long arms to retrieve shards
from their stomachs.

– Gemma Sieff
http://www.harpers.org/WeeklyReview2006-12-19.html

What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does. Allow yourself that conceit - to believe that the flame of Democracy will never go out as long as there’s one candle in your hand.
~ Bill Moyers

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