The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

By davidjoseph

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How about this sit-down strike by the Republic Windows and Doors workers in Chicago? It seems we haven’t witnessed this kind of direct labor action since Flint, Michigan.

I’ve finished reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, set in modern Kabul, Afghanistan, a breathtakingly beautiful story about two friends, Amir and Hassan, who are driven apart by one’s willful inability to act when he betrays his friend and the chance he has years later for at least a partial redemption.

Sinead O’Connor is 42 today. Toots Hibbert is 60, and James Galway is 69.

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