Friends: Imagine one fine Saturday your little girl goes out to play with her friends. She is living a carefree and happy existence. She plays with her Barbie dolls, she loves to play dress up but most of all, she enjoys watching Dora the Explorer on television. Your little girl is your pride and joy. She is your life. You think that you would do anything to protect her. A short while later, she runs back into the house, all bloodied and in shock. She has been raped. She has been mutilated. Her life has been ruined. As a parent, you want vengeance. You ...
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Death is an important, but factual stage of life. It usually occurs when a person has reached an age where their grandchildren are running around, demanding to be brought for ice cream after dinner and where they get to reflect upon their life with a mixture of happiness and sadness but most of all contentment. Fond memories of a full life are to be stored in their minds – memories of family and friends, their births, their weddings, their funerals. It is not uncommon for life to end before this envisioned conclusion. In the western world, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and sudden death syndromes are ...
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The New Year starts and already Sudan is in the news. A 33 year old American diplomat John Granville was shot five times as he returned home from a New Year’s Eve party in Khartoum. His driver died instantly while Mr. Granville died later in hospital. The US State Department and the FBI are sending a team of investigators to help solve the murder. The Sudanese government believe that the attack on Mr. Granville was not terrorist related but with anti-US and anti-Western feelings running extremely high in Khartoum due international criticism of Sudan due to the ongoing conflict in Darfur, it is highly ...
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