"What effect must it have on a nation if it learns no foreign languages? Probably much the same as that which a total withdrawal from society has upon an individual." --G.C. Lichtenberg
I don't know what to make of Alvaro Uribe's declaration of a state of emergency in Colombia. The country's been in a civil war for 38 years. How much more of an emergency could there be?
However, this tidbit caught my eye:
Rights activists are particularly worried about Uribe's program to create an army of 1 million civilian informers in the lawless countryside to help the military and the police.
