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Sunday, June 22, 2008

The Bahá’í community’s international governing council, the Universal House of Justice, has just written another wonderful letter to the Bahá’ís in Iran. The letter is both compassionate and challenging.
Equality of women and men
It calls on the beleaguered Bahá’ís in the land where the Bahá’í Faith originated in the 19th century to help “remove the barriers [...]

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Another pub lunch

by Barney on 22 June 2008

Lunch at the White Horse, Burnham Green

A sunny Sunday, our daughter and grandson staying with us, so a pub lunch is the obvious solution to the food problem. And it deals with the need to justify the calories by taking exercise.
So we walk the mile over to the White Horse in the Hertfordshire village of Burnham Green.
Is this habit forming?
Jacob, who’s [...]

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Indian children at school

Children at New Ideal Academy in the Kakori Block, north of Lucknow
What do you do if you are a parent living in a village in a country where many state-run schools are appallingly bad? Do you just accept that your child might leave school without being able to count? Or do you hope that some [...]

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