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Ijeoma's mind, a course pounds,
mercilessly, fears, pains, rushes.
Her every emotion, in a shambles,
hardly, to a prying eye, shows;
intimacy, a quality, she dreads!

This is one sad, but energising, poem I discovered today (by George Chijioke Amadi). Political poems tend to be a bit hackneyed, I've come to conclude, but this is one of the few that make you want to say: ‘Please give me more!’

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Dear Executive Board Members,

1 March 2012
The Fulbright Commission
Fulbright Building,
168-15 Yomni-dong
Mapo-gu
Seoul
121-874
Republic of Korea
Tel: (82-2) 3275-4000
Fax: (82-2) 3275-4028

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Liz Hosken, Director of The Gaia Foundation says “The issue of mining is no longer about isolated pockets of environmental and social destruction.

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