The Queen visits Ireland, Croke Park

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13434653

The Queen visits Ireland

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/may/17/queen-visits-ireland-in-pictures#/?picture=374711041&index=15

Jill Abramson, 1st Lady of the 'Gray Lady'

Jill Abramson is the 1st woman to direct the New York Times (called the Gray Lady) in its 160 years of history. Watch the interview on CNN.

Bob Kennedy on GNP, ethics in economy

Robert F. Kennedy
University of Kansas
March 18, 1968

"Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans."

Trinity exams results

Congratulations!
The great majority of the students managed to pass the Trinity exams, a few with merit too.
Results are on display at the student's office.
Let me remind you to use the certification to get your school credits.
Contact the teacher in charge of your as soon as possible.

Trinity Exams 2-3 may 2011

Le date fissate per gli esami trinity sono lunedì 2 e martedì 3 maggio 2011.

Heart of darkness

"I was thinking of very old times, when the Romans first came here, nineteen hundred years ago... Imagine the feelings of a commander of a fine trireme in the Mediterranean, ordered suddenly to the north;
There's no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination—you know Imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate.”

“Mind, none of us would feel exactly like this. What saves us is efficiency—the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more, I suspect. They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind—as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretense but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea—something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to. . .”