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August 10, 2002

EINSTEIN'S REGRET

by David Krieger

Einstein's regret ran deep
Like the deep pools of sorrow
That were his eyes.

His mind could see things
That others could not,
The bending of light,

The slowing of time,
Relationships of trains passing
In the night, and power,

Dormant and asleep,
That could be awakened,
But who would dare?

He saw patterns
In snowflakes and stars,
Unimaginable simplicity

To make one weep with joy.

When the shadow of Hitler
Spread across Europe.
What was Einstein to do

But what he did?
His regret ran deep, deeper
Than the deep pools of sorrow

That were his eyes.

David Krieger is president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He is the co-author with Daisaku Ikeda of Choose Hope: Your Role in Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age recently published by Middleway Press. He can be contacted at dkrieger@napf.org.

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August 10/11, 2002

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The Bush 2 Legacy...So Far

August 9, 2002

Mokhiber / Weissman
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Dave Marsh
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Anthony Gancarski
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Bill Christison
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Philip Farruggio
Signs of the Elites

Bruce Gagnon
We Must Come Alive

David Krieger
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Jerre Skog
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Robert Fisk
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Alexander Cockburn
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Jordy Cummings
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Bernard Weiner
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Mike Leon
US Mute to Israeli Brutality

Norman Madarasz
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David Krieger
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