http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Frida Ghitis 60 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:17:20 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/story/610159.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/story/610159.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT The memories from the Clinton-Lewinsky days seem almost quaint by now, but at the time the questions for editorial decision-makers were excruciating. What language can you use on television when the facts of a story include sexual or otherwise offensive content? http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/story/594481.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/story/594481.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT When I was growing up in Colombia many years ago, kidnappings were already becoming common occurrences. The prospect of captivity was terrifying, even if the news of acquaintances and their families falling into that dreaded purgatory became less and less rare. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/story/593475.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/story/593475.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT In a land that never lacks for intense emotions, a moment will come in just a few days when the two extremes of joy and sadness will overflow at precisely the same time. Through the dramatizing magic of modern technology, we will watch those scenes from our living rooms: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/story/578292.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/story/578292.html Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:01 EDT In the political minefield that is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the issue of Jerusalem hangs like a hornet's nest on a limb over a pile of unexploded ordnance. That's why many people caught their breath recently when Sen. Barack Obama, fresh from securing the Democratic nomination, walked through that field and stood face to face with the humming problem. Obama grabbed the Jerusalem hornet's nest and shook it hard. Or at least it seemed that way for about 24 hours. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/story/568488.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/story/568488.html Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:01 EDT While Arab and Israeli peace negotiators expend their energy trying not to bolt out of their seats in exasperation, businessmen and women on both sides think they may have just found a way to peace that will prove faster, more entertaining and definitely more profitable. Driven more by a quest for profits than by ideology, Arab and Israeli entrepreneurs are quietly working together on a variety of ventures. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/story/525327.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/story/525327.html Thu, 08 May 2008 03:01 EDT During a visit to Burma a few years ago, I decided to avoid the country's legendarily deadly airlines and instead hire a car to take me along the somewhat less deadly roads. Distances that on the map looked like they should take an hour to cover took entire days. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/story/521289.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/story/521289.html Mon, 05 May 2008 03:01 EDT An intriguing theory has made the rounds in the scientific community for many years, claiming the existence of ''parallel universes,'' worlds that resemble ours but in which one event may have turned differently, sending the entire course of history in a different direction. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/story/509894.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/frida-ghitis/story/509894.html Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Will ''alternative'' energy ever dethrone oil as the king of fuels? That question came more than 150 years ago, when the king of fuels was oil -- whale oil. Back then, Nantucket and New Bedford were the Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi of whale oil production. People once thought that it would last forever.