What I do believe is that we have to apply judgment and a sense of proportion to how change happens in any society to promote our ideals and our values with some sense of humility.

NEWYORKER: The Conciliator

Generalizations do not apply to everyone, but thoughtful Indians accept that northern society is more feudal and caste-based, and less secure about its identity, while southerners are more liberal and entrepreneurial, and draw strength from their many deeply rooted traditions.

CNN: Center Cut

That's, I think, an important lesson for all of us on this day -- are the things that we can try to do that might have seemed impossible but we know are worth doing, and can we apply those principles that we know to be true in our own lives and our society.

WHITEHOUSE: Generations Remember Civil Rights Movement

The Open Spaces Society is particularly angered by changes to village green laws, which apply to any patches of open ground enjoyed by local people - not just in villages.

BBC: Campaigners angry at Growth and Infrastructure Bill

However, Mr Justice Deeney said that those shareholders who still had their money in the society when it went into administration in October 2008 - and who did not apply beforehand to withdraw it - could not be classed as creditors.

BBC: Court ruling over Presbyterian Mutual Society savers

The final coincidence: one day after the arrival of the journal containing both the remarkable announcement that the 1985 Israfel Society Conference had been transferred from Baltimore to Buenos Aires and instructions on how interested parties should apply, my cat Aleph died.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Borges and the Eternal Orangutans'