Battling cancer, Ted Kennedy to get Harvard honors

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With Sen. Edward Kennedy battling a malignant brain cancer, admirers are showering accolades on the liberal lion for his decades of work in the U.S. Senate.
The Massachusetts Maritime Academy has announced it will rename its training ship The Kennedy in tribute to the Kennedy clan. Officials in Boston have unveiled a proposal to build a [...]

A Persistent Peace: One Man’s Struggle for a Nonviolent World (Hardcover)

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ReviewFr John Dear is a Jesuit priest who has been in the forefront of the religious peace movement in the United States. He is the embodiment of a peacemaker. He has led by example through his actions and in his writings and in numerous sermons, speeches and demonstrations. He believes that peace is not something [...]

Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela [ABRIDGED] [AUDIOBOOK] (Audio Cassette)

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Editorial ReviewsAmazon.comThe famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa’s apartheid regime. Among the book’s interesting revelations is Mandela’s ambivalence toward his lifetime of devotion to [...]