Say Thank You

Good Will to All, With a Side of Soft-Serve – NYTimes.com. Inside, though, this Dairy Queen seems different from the 5,000 others lighting up the country’s summer nights. It has the standard freezer filled with Dilly Bars, and the black-and-white photographs evoking a past that includes the first Dairy Queen, in prison-centric Joliet, Ill., in 1940. But plaques and letters and children’s handwritten notes cover nearly every inch of available wall, all praising someone clearly without Pennsylvania Dutch roots; someone named Hamid.

Several older articles. Good to read. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=510195 http://www.partypics.com/ver2/EventImages.aspx?eventid=130490&bib=2757 http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/12.08/17-circus.html Technorati Tags: Afghanistan, Unicycles

Check out this article on corporate responsibility in terms of not being complicit in human rights violations. The Global Compact sounds very cool. I have to check if Apple is a member. Also, note the part on Kyrgyzstan towards the end.