[05#37] 2.6=7=12.28=#58: Early to home. BookTV on 1.Pub. ed., 2.Collapse & 3.Humanitarian problems.1)IraqElection

Nice again!! Up 7:45, breakfast tv: NHK:"New Sunday Gallery: Ozaki Koorin" (no url), then C-SPAN2:Booktv, meantime Mei tel P. had tel to come 10am, then tel angrily 3-4 times not to be late, reaching home 10:05 a while then P. tel Mei walked & I droved twice to house with short talks about roof repair (He wants $500, ours $400 with iron gurantee, so ours) and my request 1Appln first, 2$2000 (still talking about $1000 first then...), 3Any extra fancy works of P.'s almost all permissible but his own responsibilities, then lunch, then Mei claimed termites in garage and desiring to throw my precious Chinese books, told to throw away massive junks in kitchen of plastic bags etc., so she did some then to Lions supmkt for coming Friday company potluck, now 3:40, finished "1." only, 4:30 "2. &3." Mei termites in bedroom, 4:30 to house to check roof repair done last Sunday! Emails again. 4:50, back with him to check her termites, then garage door (remote not closing for long), done 5:15! Children are back with a girl. We are going out for dinner. 6:07pm. Discovered BookT'Vs Schedule url: http://www.booktv.org/schedule/ 1. Charles Murray,"Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980", "In Depth" 3-hour program: Intriguing in explaining education-social change relationship where the American policy of helping the most disadvantaged has harmed the gifted and the majority in public schools, including his school's excellent English Composition teacher: http://www.booktv.org/General/index.asp?segID=5375&schedID=331&category=In+Depth Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465042333/qid=1107728663/sr=2-3/ref=pd_ka_b_2_3/002-2696247-0448062 "" Editorial Reviews From Publishers WeeklyMurray, coauthor of The Bell Curve, argued that the social programs of the '60s and the '70s worsened the plight of the poor and minorities. This 10th anniversary issue includes a new introduction by the author. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. "" Either 5 or 1 star readers' reviews. 2. Jared Diamond, "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed": "At the San Diego Natural History Museum in California. He analyzes the demise of both ancient and modern societies citing environmental damage, climate change, and rapid population growth as some of the biggest factors": http://www.booktv.org/General/index.asp?segID=5418&schedID=331 3. Lt. General Romeo Dallaire, " Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda": http://www.blogger.com/app/post.pyra?blogID=9509106 "Former Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda ... in 1994, ... and his limited number of troops witnessed the killing of more than 800,000 Rwandans in a period of a little over three months. The author talks about the under-equipped army he had with him and about how he had originally requested 5,000 troops in order to ensure order during the elections and oversee the safe return of Tutsi refugees. Upon returning to his native Canada, Lt. Gen. Dallaire served in various posts including assistant deputy minister in the Canadian Ministry of Defence. He also spent a great deal of time battling post-traumatic stress disorder and spoke openly about these battles" "... current position as Special Adviser to the Canadian Government on War Affected Children and the Prohibition of Small Arms Distribution." 1) Iraq Election: "U.S. 'in for a shock' In early election results, Shiite cleric's alliance trouncing Washington's favorite", by Borzou Daragahi, San Francisco Chronicle, February 4th, 2005. Chronicle news services contributed to this report. Source: Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq. Posted by Iraq Occupation Watch Center: ""An international coalition of peace and justice groups, together with Iraqi counterparts, has launched a Baghdad-based International Occupation Watch Center..."" http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=9112 "" Baghdad -- Partial results from Sunday's election suggest that U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's coalition is being roundly defeated by a list with the backing of Iraq's senior Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al- Sistani, diminishing Allawi's chances of retaining his post in the next government. Sharif Ali bin Hussein, head of the Constitutional Monarchy Party, likened the vote outcome to a "Sistani tsunami" that would shake the nation. "Americans are in for a shock," he said, adding that one day they would realize, "We've got 150,000 troops here protecting a country that's extremely friendly to Iran, and training their troops." ""