Archive for May, 2007
May 19, 2007 at 12:24 am
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While there is some disagreement on the idea of troop deadlines for US soldiers in Iraq, all sides seem to be on board with the amount included in the bill to fund the war.
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Libya at last seems to be emerging, if fitfully, from a long sleep of unreason. A travelogue from a formerly lunatic land.
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The EU has rightly condemned the brutal repression of peaceful demonstrations meted out by President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe. So why the softly-softly approach against the no less despotic and repressive Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan?
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For 60 years, Republican presidents have waged war in the Middle East, and Democratic ones have sought peace. Yet neither has been successful. Why the next president needs neo-regionalism.
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The first defense of political futures in quite some time!
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Analysing the current hegemony of Erdo?an’s AKP in Turkey, Cihan Tu?al argues that the party has been the agent of a classic passive revolution, effectively shoring up the Kemalist state. Paradoxes…
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Transformed from murder capital to corporate boom town, Medellín has been hailed as a rare urban success story for neo-conservatism in South America. The singular progression of Escobar and Uribe’s hometown…
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May 18, 2007 at 12:24 am
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With Inuktitut!
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“Add to Cart” buttons – they may be small, but no online retail store can do without them. These little, rectangular, sometimes colorful clickables connect product to payment and are an extension of your branding.
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In a director’s cinematic bag of tricks the long tracking shot is the boldest way of making a statement. It’s the flashiest and most attention-grabbing egotistical way of flexing one’s muscle.
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“Dude, I invented the friggin’ iPod. Have you heard of it?”
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Why are middle east experts so unfailingly wrong? The lesson of history is that men never learn from history, but middle east experts, like the rest of us, should at least learn from their past mistakes. Instead, they just keep repeating them.
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Greetings, fellow members of the creative class. If you’re an Internet old timer, chances are you’ve already taken the initiative and set up various web-based money makers: selling t-shirts, putting ads on your website or even running a small business
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“The first thing one does in the morning shows how important we think it is. What do I do? You guessed it… read my Washington Times, even before I read my Bible. (Forgive me, Lord.) “
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May 17, 2007 at 12:25 am
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May 16, 2007 at 12:25 am
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In 1948, nearly 900,000 Jews - indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa - lived in what are now known as the “Arab States.” Today, 99% of these indigenous Jewish communities no longer exist.
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May 15, 2007 at 12:27 am
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May 14, 2007 at 12:24 am
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The Economist Intelligence Unit provides a constant flow of analysis and forecasts on more than 200 countries and eight key industries. We help executives make informed business decisions through dependable intelligence…
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The Jewish Journal was founded February 28, 1986 by lay leaders of the Jewish community to serve as an independent community newspaper. The Jewish Journal is published weekly in Los Angeles.
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The TAM and BAS Programmes are complementary schemes aiming to help enterprises adapt to the demands of a market economy. While TAM has a broad approach focusing on substantial managerial and structural changes within the company…
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After this year the majority of people will live in cities. Human history will ever more emphatically become urban history, says John Grimond
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Turquoise Mountain is investing in the regeneration of the historic commercial centre of Kabul, providing basic services, saving historic buildings and constructing a new bazaar and galleries for traditional craft businesses.
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May 13, 2007 at 12:23 am
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Running a business for yourself means you have to be inventive and always on the lookout for a new and better way to get things done. Innovation junkies, take note: the Internet has a lot to offer.
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askCHARITY is a free online contacts book for media professionals. Search hundreds of charities to find what you’re looking for and get fast access to key media contacts - including those vital out of office hours
phone numbers.
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This document was originally commissioned one year ago by senior officials within the Dartmouth Counter-Secret-Society Society. The Society is a clandestine organization designed to monitor and counter the activities of Dartmouth’s secret societies…
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ONE SATURDAY EVENING IN MARCH, the first night of the Kennedy Center’s weeklong ‘Jazz in Our Time’ celebration, nearly every living jazz titan who could spare the time and was feeling hale enough to make the trip gathered in an upstairs lounge to pose for
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Stories of people struggling to follow the Ten Commandments from the book of Exodus.
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May 12, 2007 at 12:25 am
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Apparently, they’re serious!
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The Other Canon is ‘Reality Economics’, the study of the economy as a real object, not defined in terms of the adoption of core assumptions and techniques. A production-based economic theory where economic development is an intrinsically uneven process…
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May 11, 2007 at 12:23 am
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May 10, 2007 at 12:23 am
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Three experiments were conducted to determine the survival and transfer of Salmonella Typhimurium from wood, tile or carpet to bologna (sausage) and bread.
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‘Kids’ Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures’ is a three year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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‘The Price Is Right’ without Bob Barker could mean something profound to a lard-butt nation. Either he gets a life or you do. Maybe both.
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Those wondering why the Bush administration has failed to spread democracy across the globe might find a clue in yesterday’s meeting of the State Department’s ‘Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion.’
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Best headline ever!
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So many news articles are the same; only the names are changed. A blank template from MICHAEL Y. PARK takes the legwork out of your next general-interest piece.
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