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I read somewhere that West Africa (i think the city of Fez) had the first universities. Is there a historian out there who could verify (or correct) this for me?

He's sort of a pick-and-choose guy. I'm sure he'll let you know.

Yup . . . i'm an anmesty member . . . and a human rights watch member . . . glad to know that Rumsfeld cares about human rights.

I'm a big fan of the 'Lord of the Rings' soundtrack, and everything done by Danny Elfman.

is this a joke?

posting in forums.

I agree with some things Bush says and not others. Am i a minority?

Well, the average Indonesian knows that Suharto was backed by the US, and that's enough.

There's enough Republicans who want power. Laura Bush wouldn't make it though the preliminaries.

Willing to admit that one is wrong.

Well, here’s some answers: I don’t teach debate, but I am a debater and a pretty good one at that. Currently I’m in Canada, but I grew up overseas in South East Asia. Specifically, Thailand, Singapore, and Jakarta. Now, Canadians tend to think of Americans with some animosity which...

BTW, everyone should see 'fog of war', pro-war or anti-war. It's an amazing film and McNamara's eleven rules are now in my wallet.

what Kerry ought to have done was got mad. Not Howard-Dean style dinosaur mad, but 'angry american' style mad. Latin 'I'm gonna flip out and make you wish you never said that' mad. Whenever someone points out something personal in any kind of debate, I Accuse the opposition of ignoring the...

yes, reframing, the dirty little debator trick. A word to those who use it: it dons't work at all when there's an intelligent audience. Fortuantly, 'audience' usually means 'more people than four', so most debators i know use it all the time. The only real way to counter this is by saying "We...

This ‘life’ thing I have going on sure keeps me from speaking for myself. I’d like to remind everyone in the forum that it’s awfully hard to judge tone based on two words, but by all means, go ahead. I was merely reminding my Christian brethren to remember how we are meant to act. Of...

dark. It's the middle of the night. to pull all-nighters or not get work done?

"Those are not real Catholics because they are not Christians." judge not.

cosmic - usually, but I've written plays that ridicule them both (as the same). Oddly enough, when Conservatives see said play they feel that Liberals were the ones riduculed. Liberals feel that I ridiculed the Conservatives. Otherwise, you're right, drama people tend to side with the...

Well super, I know that I’m going to get crucified for this but here’s my answer: Creationism and evolution are not mutually exclusive. The main point of the account of creation in Genisis is that God created earth. Not ‘how God made the earth’, not ‘why God made the earth’, just ‘God...

I think that what you’re proposing could make a great experiment on a vast scale – after the human genome, we investigate ultra-fast evolution. With such a vast mutation rate (I would argue that because the base pairs are being screwed up that they’re mutants) we’d see extraordinary...