Surely many viewers of the Opening Ceremonies of the London Olympics were baffled by the stubby, terraced, tree-crowned hill in the center of the Olympic Stadium. To me, it was instantly recognizable as Glastonbury Tor.
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Freedom and fear: Ground Zero and Park51
I have been able to get little done for the past week, because I've been distracted by the national conversation taking place over plans for Park51, an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan near the site of the World Trade Center towers that fell in the terrorist attack on 9/11/2001.
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