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Wallace Stegner, Francine Prose, John Kenneth Galbraith, and others offer advice to aspiring wordsmiths.
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Recently, the big-screen version of “Miami Vice” and the 25th birthday of MTV reminded us of how the small-screen fare of the 1980s ushered in a flashy, high-velocity aesthetic that transformed the moving image as we knew it. The timing seems especially
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In December 1998, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley held a press conference to tout a new initiative against gun violence: the city had sued gun dealers for liability, much the way state governments sued the cigarette companies. The press conference, part of
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Drawn to ballots not bombs, America’s Muslim community shows few signs of the radicalism seen in Britain. But with anger over US policies at home and abroad, a younger generation may be up for grabs.
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When you’re a twentysomething in love with the urban life, parks can seem invisible. But, as they say, having a kid changes everything. A London parent on the city’s parks, gardens, and—yes—playgrounds.
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Boston’s rich past is evident in its “Emerald Necklace” of carefully designed parks and gardens. What really keeps things interesting? The living history—the city’s and its residents’. Our Beantown correspondent chimes in for the next installm
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Amazon used to be a large river in South America - but that was before the world wide web. This month the web is 15 years old and in that short time it has revolutionised the way we live, from shopping to booking flights, writing blogs to listening to mus
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The Guardian’s attempt to build an engaging group blog further illustrates the cultural differences between running a newspaper and an online conversation.
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Using video, audio and photographs, this website presents the voices of those who are rarely given space or time in traditional news media.
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The boom in Internet advertising is shaking up the Web economy. While beleaguered veteran AOL tries to reinvent itself, Internet giants Google, Yahoo and Amazon are responding with multimillion-dollar alliances reminiscent of the 1990s Internet bubble.
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With images of the riots in the Parisian suburbs still fresh in our minds, one could be forgiven for thinking that unemployment, deprivation, inadequate and unchecked housing development and social exclusion belong exclusively to the Parisian suburbs. How
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Can India save its natural spaces and its wild elephants as it pursues the goal of rapid economic growth? Conservationist Dr. Raman Sukumar clarifies the issues at stake.
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In about six weeks from now, Gambians from across the nation head to the polls to democratically elect the President of the Republic and for the main opposition bloc, the National Alliance for Democracy and Development (NADD) to unseat the current repress
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In a cultural galaxy far, far away — and throughout the hallways of the SeaTac Doubletree Inn — starship commanders rubbed elbows with alien babes. Swashbucklers sidled past scientists. Swollen-eyed writers admired fairy wings.
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This website features high-quality analysis and progressive advocacy on African issues, with particular attention to priority issues affecting the entire continent.
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“As it is a very lucrative game, we should expect bad behavior; disloyalty; rampant individual greed; irrational behavior (kids in toyshop style); back-stabbing; bum-fucking, and similar ungentlemanly activities.” So reads a cautionary note in the prospec
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The true story of an attempted coup by British and South African mercenaries in Equatorial Guinea in 2004 is told by journalist Adam Roberts. The case eventually embroiled Mark Thatcher, son of the British ex-prime minister Margaret Thatcher, as well as S
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The ballots from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s recent election haven’t yet been counted, but already Europe and America are forging plans for the future government. The Africans will either agree to strict economic and political conditions or the Wes
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Christianity is thriving amongst the burgeoning populations of Africa and Latin America. Will it become the Big Idea of the 21st century?
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In God-hungry Kenya, churches provide the answers to spiritual and social needs.
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Oil and gas supplies are becoming scarcer and more expensive. The hunt for the world’s remaining resources is creating new alliances and the danger of fresh conflicts. China is moving aggressively to sate its growing appetite for energy, potentially setti
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Venezuela’s president wants to spread a new “Bolivarian revolution” through Latin America, but the idea is unlikely to catch on.
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Western values have been liberating for Taiwan but there is a downside to breaking with the past.
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Japan has a serious geopolitical problem — and increasingly it is an American problem as well.
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Gender-based sexual violence obstructs peace and development, particularly when it is a weapon used by military dictatorships against their own peoples. Burma is now permeated by such state-sponsored violence. Systematic sexual violence became visible in
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The U.S. government estimates that 600,000 to 800,000 persons are trafficked across international borders annually. However, such estimates of global human trafficking are questionable. The accuracy of the estimates is in doubt because of methodological w
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There’s a word that gets tossed around in canvassing offices to describe people like Christian Miller: “scrappy.” That’s not because of his skinny frame and sparse, wiry chin-scrabble. Rather, in an industry where the average career lasts two week
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Five years after September 11, it is possible to take stock of what parts of the battle against terrorism are succeeding and failing, and why. The thwarting of an elaborate terrorist plot against trans-Atlantic flights last week prevented what some mainta
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The inexorable advance of climate change and concerns about oil dependency have put renewable energy back on the public agenda. Finally, a “green economy” based on exciting innovations in agricultural technology could reduce our thirst for oil, reverse en
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At The Atlantic Philanthropies, we are dedicated to bringing about lasting changes in the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people. We award grants to carefully selected organisations that serve disadvantaged people to help these organisations increa
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The Rockefeller Brothers Fund promotes social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Through its grantmaking, the Fund supports efforts to expand knowledge, clarify values and critical choices, nurture creative expression
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The hallmark of the Bush foreign policy has been a naive radicalism married to an operational incompetence. A small clique with a preconceived blueprint took advantage of a national emergency and a callow president, blowing a containable threat into war w
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State has made progress in addressing staffing shortages since implementing the DRI. However, the initiative did not fully meet its goals, and mid-level vacancies remain a problem at many posts, including some critical to the war on terror. State implemen
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I am no great football fan, but when I receive an invitation to attend the World Cup final, and it comes from Bill Clinton, it seems churlish to refuse.
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The White House has launched several recent initiatives designed to promote the coordination of U.S. public diplomacy efforts, but the government does not yet have a public diplomacy communications strategy. In 2002, a Strategic Communications Policy Coor
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This report discusses the facts surrounding the ability of the Clinton White House to preserve certain electronic mail (e-mail) deemed official government records. GAO found that two malfunctions occurred in the White House e-mail system that prevented of
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Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone is news reporting for the new millennium - a nexus of backpack journalism, narrative story-telling techniques, and the Internet, designed to reach a global audience hungry for information.
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Online Subway and Bus Directions
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Where a unique urban experience awaits you! Four inspiring outdoor festivals beckon you to return at least once a season! You’ll also find world-class shopping, dining, lodging and leisure entertainment throughout the Magnificent Mile area. And there’s so
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The judicial review of legislation can be configured in any of a number of ways. In particular this task may be concentrated in a constitutional court, or diffused among ordinary judges. Recent studies have shown that the design of judicial institutions c
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Since 1969, some elements in the Republican Party have been willing to use impeachment - the procedure through which the House of Representatives accuses and then prosecutes a federal official in the Senate with the aim of removing him or her from office
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To be, or not to be — that is the age-old question, and civilization today faces its own dire version of it. As the negative social and ecological effects of 150 years of industrialization are becoming impossible to ignore, people are asking whether we c
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Ukraine is in post-orange political meltdown while Russia is reinventing itself as a successful energy superpower. Right? Wrong, says Alexander J Motyl, who looks beneath the surface of a changing relationship.
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It’s a different, much less awesome New York Times under attack for its decision to publish secret details of how banks are cooperating with the Bush administration to track terrorist finances. In the past, if you took on the Times, you took on its powerf
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close look at Bulgaria’s political institutions casts doubt on the country’s fitness to join the European Union in January 2007, says Ilija Trojanow.
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Shared fundamental liberties and democratic principles have long provided the core of what observers of international affairs termed the West. While national institutions and policies have at times varied, they rarely challenged the foundations of the tra
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America owes its origins to Europe and is unthinkable without Europe, but there has always been a strand of American thinking which has downplayed the connection and wished to assert the exceptionalism of the American experience and the need for America t
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Closer co-operation is possible in two variants, the quasi official “enhanced co-operation” INSIDE the EU treaty and institutions, and the one OUTSIDE the EU and according to treaties established under international law. Their feasibility, utility, and co
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Most research on political culture is driven by the assumption that mass attitudes impact on democracy. Despite the centrality of this premise, evidence showing that attitudes affect the level of democracy a society attains and sustains is rare and inconc
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Most of the scholarship on the political transformations in Central and Eastern Europe focuses on explaining the fall of communist regimes and democratic transition. To complement this research, the present paper turns attention to the political developme
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During the past three decades, democracy has become a truly global phenomenon. This chapter discusses the important characteristics of the third wave of democratization in comparison to the earlier waves. How have the ordinary citizens of new democracies
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Recent literature highlights how political knowledge and involvement matter for most political attitudes. Political involvement is here proposed as a second “spatial” dimension, orthogonally complementing left-right ideological positions of citizens. In s
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In this essay, we present a conceptual framework for analyzing constitutional structures and party systems–an approach that we brand neo-Madisonian. Using examples from the Latin American region, we demonstrate the value of neo-Madisonian theory as appli
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This paper examines relative impacts of cultural socialization and interactions with government on support for democracy, democratic pluralism, regime legitimacy, and trust in government across eight Asian nations based upon surveys of populations in thes
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Studies of web use during elections have focused mainly on the content of websites and the major factors driving parties and candidates’ adoption of the technology. Evaluation of the electoral impact of web campaigns have been more limited. This study a
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This paper tests the commonly held belief that the extremely proportional electoral system used in Israel gives disproportionate influence to small parties. This hypothesis is tested using power score analysis of the bargaining power of small parties in t
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Formed in 2001, Res Publica won the Estonian parliamentary elections in 2003, and its leader became prime minister. It lost the elections for the European Parliament in 2004 and was down to 5 % in opinion polls. The founding chair of the party analyzes he
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For most of the Twentieth Century, East Asia was among the least urbanized parts of the world; now it is a region where cities are growing the most rapidly and becoming increasingly important centers regionally and in terms of the global urban hierarchy.
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The 1989 Eastern European revolutions produced systematic failures in which various social, economic, and political players to coordinate on mutually beneficial solutions. The old institutional grid–political, economic, and social–was destroyed and the
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This paper assesses the relationship between the nature of political parties and varieties of democracy. It is argued that the changing role of parties can be attributed to an ideational transformation by which parties have gradually come to be seen as ne
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Al Gore has yet to live down reports that he claimed to have invented the Internet. Now Blackboard is facing criticism from those who say the giant of the course management industry claims to have invented chat rooms. (If you are wondering, Blackboard say
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A multimedia report on television newsrooms’ use of material provided by PR firms on behalf of paying clients
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At the Center for Investigative Reporting, we practice journalism that cares more about correcting injustice and abuse of power than making a profit. Unfortunately, investigative reporting - requiring long lead times and significant investment in people -
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Knowing the facts is essential to educating and organizing citizens so they can participate in the decision making that affects their lives. Citizens have a right to know the facts but this right is useless unless they also have the know-how to obtain the
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Part 29
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This weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner features comedian Stephen Colbert addressing the very crowd — President Bush, the journalists who cover him and the celebrities who joined them in Washington — that he usually skewers on Come
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We test the effects of a popular televised source of political humor for young Americans: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. We find that participants exposed to jokes about George W. Bush and John Kerry on The Daily Show tended to rate both candidates more