edafe.org » obituary http://edafe.org edafe.org is the personal site of Edafe Knabe. Sat, 12 May 2012 12:19:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Sebastian Junger remembers Tim Hetherington http://edafe.org/2012/03/sebastian-junger-remembers-tim-hetherington/ http://edafe.org/2012/03/sebastian-junger-remembers-tim-hetherington/#comments Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:11:38 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=6374 Continue reading →]]> “You and I were always talking about risk because she was the beautiful woman we were both in love with, right? The one who made us feel the most special, the most alive? We were always trying to have one more dance with her without paying the price.” Sebastian Junger writes after the death of photojournalist Tim Hetherington in April 2011.
www.vanityfair.com

]]> http://edafe.org/2012/03/sebastian-junger-remembers-tim-hetherington/feed/ 0 Sheldon Brown http://edafe.org/2008/03/sheldon-brown/ http://edafe.org/2008/03/sheldon-brown/#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:00:30 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=905 Continue reading →]]> “If Sheldon Brown had been only an excellent bicycle mechanic, the esteem in which he was held, while great, could not have extended much beyond his native Massachusetts.” Instead, Sheldon Brown used the Internet to become the most widely read bicycle mechanic in the world. He died on February 3, 2008.
www.timesonline.co.uk

]]> http://edafe.org/2008/03/sheldon-brown/feed/ 0 Fireworks in Washington, despair around the World http://edafe.org/2005/08/fireworks-in-washington-despair-around-the-world/ http://edafe.org/2005/08/fireworks-in-washington-despair-around-the-world/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:04:08 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=569 Continue reading →]]> “The president and his speechwriters have yet to confront the tension between their rhetoric about freedom, which is universally popular, and their practice of projecting US firepower, which is resented in equal measure.” Former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook on the day George Bush began his second term in office.
www.guardian.co.uk

Robin Cook is Dead

Robin Cook, one of few political figures to command my lasting respect, has suddenly died on August 6, 2005. If you are only ever going to read one political statement made to the House of Commons, read Robin Cooks’s resignation speech from 18 March, 2003.

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