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- By now I'm sure most, if not all, of you have heard of President Bush's visit to Baghdad this past Thanksgiving day. I like to give credit where credit is due and 'props to the pres' for having some gumption... |
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- By now I'm sure most, if not all, of you have heard of President Bush's visit to Baghdad this past Thanksgiving day. I like to give credit where credit is due and 'props to the pres' for having some gumption... |
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PSA (Nov 30 2003 05:33 GMT) - I'm all for open discussion here on this blog, but the minute you insult me or you insult people who... |
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- North Korea says the United States should compensate it for halting work on two nuclear reactors there amid efforts to arrange a second round of six-nation talks on the communist state's atomic weapons program. |
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- Robert Fripp announced on his Nov. 20 diary entry that Tony Levin has agreed to become an active part of... |
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- Cutting off your nose to spite your face Dept. Remember clueless creepy British antisemite academic Andrew Wilkie? He's the one who got caught.If you don't think this will affect you personally, think about what the world will lose if Israelis are excluded from global intellectual endeavor. Remember who fled Nazi Germany after being systematically frozen out of universities and scientific careers, and who won the war. |
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- On Strada's recommendation I read a book called The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor. It was one of these books that I had hesitated to read because it seemed like a rather sad story, and it was deeply sad. Lucy, it turns out, was a little girl when her parents decided that as English people living in Ireland, they needed to leave. However, Lucy didn't want to go. And through circumstances that I won't reveal, she was somehow left behind. |
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- I've been hooked on Kimball ever since I read The Long March , his wonderful critique of how the 60's cultural revolution changed America. I can't wait to read the rest of his award-winning PC talk. |
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- Their books, The Secret World of American Communism, Venona, Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, and The Soviet World of American Communism , through archival material and decoded Venona communications, helped to demolish any doubt as to the guilt of the Americans who worked as Soviet spies, notably the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss. They are also able to prove beyond doubt that the CPUSA was funded and directed from Moscow, a fact long denied by the American left. |
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- Their books, The Secret World of American Communism, Venona, Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, and The Soviet World of American Communism , through archival material and decoded Venona communications, helped to demolish any doubt as to the guilt of the Americans who worked as Soviet spies, notably the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss. They are also able to prove beyond doubt that the CPUSA was funded and directed from Moscow, a fact long denied by the American left. |
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- Their books, The Secret World of American Communism, Venona, Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, and The Soviet World of American Communism , through archival material and decoded Venona communications, helped to demolish any doubt as to the guilt of the Americans who worked as Soviet spies, notably the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss. They are also able to prove beyond doubt that the CPUSA was funded and directed from Moscow, a fact long denied by the American left. |
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- |Fuck you]I had a dream Christine was outside of my apartment in her black car. She drove off before I could talk to her and I ran after the car. I wish I caught it.I'm just glad I am going to die before the earth falls into the sun.I don't live with my computer at the moment. |
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- I asked my escort Specialist Jack Craig, a military policeman from Minnesota, how he correlated the "strike first" directive with the US military's... - www.indymedia. |
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- Tonight, I took my competetiveness (what the fuck? Is that even a word? Well, it is now) to an all... |
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- [via Reuben] Media coverage always comes in a flurry. A few years ago, China was the toast of the media. Now, it is India's turn. Business Week has a cover story on what India's rise means for the global economy: Quietly but with breathtaking speed, India and its millions of world-class engineering, business, and medical graduates are becoming enmeshed in America's New Economy in ways most of us barely imagine. |
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- I read Tracy Kidder's "Mountains beyond Mountains" recently (will write more on it sometime later - highly recommended). The book is about Dr Paul Farmer who has been working in Haiti for two decades and his "quest to cure the world". So, it was a pleasant surprise to see a New York Times article on the work going in in Haiti - helped complete the story the book began. Partners in Health has become an influential model in the frenetic race to expand drug treatment in dozens of poor countries across Africa, Asia and the Caribbean...No program to treat people in the poorest countries has more intrigued experts than the one started in Haiti by Partners in Health which has succeeded by enlisting help from hundreds among Haiti's vast pool of unemployed and underemployed workers. |
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- ITC is one of the most active companies in rural India. They have set up over 2,500 e-choupals in the villages and expect income from e-choupals to be more than their tobacco business by 2010. "In the next 5-7 years, ITC will have 20,000 choupals. Since each choupal covers around five villages, the company will have access to 100,000 villages. Each choupal currently serves 500-600 farmers. |
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- On Dec 17, it will be 100 years since the first flight undertaken by the Wright brothers. Forbes has a special series of articles celebrating 100 years of flight. One of the Forbes articles looks at about how a few years elapsed before "the world discovered the Wright brothers." One hundred years ago, on Dec. 17, 1903, a flying machine carrying Orville Wright rose from the dunes of Kitty Hawk, N. |
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Advent (Nov 30 2003 05:30 GMT) - As a beginning of a new church year starts I have created a new blog template with colors to reflect... |
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- William Warren (Nov 29 2003) |
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- Gadi Evron (Nov 30 2003) |
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- vordhosbn (Nov 29 2003) |
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- Raj Mathur (Nov 29 2003) |
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- While reading Erving Goffman's "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life," Joi Ito blogged a passage on performance that is worth considering: American college girls did, and no doubt do, play down their intelligence, skills, and determinativeness when in the... |
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- Es previsible que los medios de comunicacin que hicieron del antiamericanismo barato y del antiaznarismo caro su nica lnea editorial durante los prolegmenos, la guerra y la posguerra de Irak, pidan ahora la retirada de las tropas espaolas sealando los siete cadveres de los soldados espaoles muertos. Y es tambin previsible que los partidos de izquierda que se lanzaron a la calle para echar del Poder a la derecha a la que no pueden ganar en las urnas, acompaados por los titiriteros filsofos y jaleados por esos medios de comunicacin demaggicos e irresponsables, sntesis de lo peor de la izquierda clsica y la derecha antigua, vuelvan a emitir trenos y graznidos abandonistas en el Parlamento. |
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- Europa practica con Israel un maniquesmo de pelcula de "buenos y malos". En estos das se cumplen 30 aos del fallecimiento de Ben Gurin, "el Profeta del desierto";. Observo una foto suya en la pequea casita del kibutz Sde Boker donde eligi pasar sus ltimos aos, y donde murieron l y su esposa Pola. |
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- We're back: and yup, the new mail server went down 2 days after we left for our hiking trip. Murphy's law would seem to be OS-independent... |
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- We're back: and yup, the new mail server went down 2 days after we left for our hiking trip. Murphy's law would seem to be OS-independent... |
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- InterNey.NetFala Srio, Bahia!Fala Srio, Bahia! |
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- The home secretary's plans to force airlines to copy passengers' documents are criticised by Alistair Darling. |
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Killer pits (Nov 30 2003 05:26 GMT) - Leah and I were just really getting into the 24 season 2 DVD box set when disc 2 failed to play around 6 minutes into the first episode. On inspection, there are 5 deep pits on the disc and no... |
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- OK, now that Buy Nothing Day is over, it's time for the holiday shopping season to begin in earnest. (Here's... |
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- Introducing CwisStats: PeopleSoft user load statistics... |
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