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The Post Office Meltdown You Always Wanted To Have

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The less-than-helpful attitude of post office clerks in France (and elsewhere) has been known to get a rise out of customers. Well this French woman takes it to a whole other level.

Her rage toward the ever so blasé postal staff appeared to start after she was denied a transaction because she'd arrived too late in the day, near closing hours. Other customers agree that the workers on hand should carry out the requested services.

"I have eight children, I need to feed them," the woman screams, in the video posted Tuesday. "Stop acting like I'm stupid!"

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“I Am Palestinian” — When History Calls Us To Stand In Their Shoes, To Say Who We Are

There are certain watershed moments where the world comes together in defense of an idea or a people, or maybe both. A call from afar to stand up in the name of the Palestinian people.

Photo of a pro-Palestinian demonstrator in Berlin

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Berlin's central district on November 4 for a pro-Palestinian rally.

Ranjani Iyer Mohanty

-Essay-

CALGARY — Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 film “Spartacus,” starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, is based on a true story of the leader of a momentous slave rebellion against the Roman empire circa 70 BC.

Near the end of the movie, when the slaves have been captured, the Roman general offers to let them all live if they reveal their leader, the gladiator Spartacus. In a show of solidarity and final act of bravery, the slaves stand up one-by-one, to declare: “I am Spartacus.”

And with that, all are crucified.

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