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Соцреализм против романтики реализма. Что такое советское искусство 1925–1945...
artguide.com; via a Russian Facebook friendМария Силина об ошибках «Романтического реализма».[JB note: For years a Russian partner and I tried to organize a exhibit comparing Norman Rockwell and...
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Peggy Noonan, Wall Street JournalExcerpt:Meanwhile Mr. Trump’s supporters, like Mr. Trump himself, appear to care nothing for the GOP. They believe America is in danger and this is no time for party...
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Зельфира Трегулова: «Снобизм в себе надо изживать»
via YA on FacebookЗельфира Трегулова директорствует в Государственной Третьяковской галерее меньше года, но уже успела изменить образ музея в глазах публики на более динамичный и современный и...
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An Anthropologist Unravels the Mysteries of Mexican Migration: Note for a...
news.nationalgeographic.comUndocumented immigrants risk scorching temperatures, venomous creatures, and military surveillance to get into the U.S.By Simon Worrall, National Geographic PUBLISHED...
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Hugh Leach, Arabist - obituary
via KL/AF on Facebooktelegraph.co.ukHugh Leach in Choumert Square, Peckham Photo: Anna Katz5:52PM GMT 25 Nov 201518 CommentsHugh Leach, who has died aged 81, was a soldier, diplomat, Arabist, author,...
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There are more museums in the U.S. than there are Starbucks and McDonalds –...
By Christopher Ingraham June 13, 2014, Washington Post The Salvador Dali museum in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Photo by Flickr user Matthew Paulson, used under a Creative Commons license.)There are roughly...
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Ukraine’s Fragile Status Quo
carnegieeurope.eu; via JM on FacebookUkraine’s Fragile Status QuoPosted by: JAN TECHAUMONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2015+PRINT PAGETen months after the Minsk II agreement of February 2015, which aimed to end...
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While university presidents earn millions, many professors struggle
csmonitor.com; via RW on FacebookAs the salaries of both public and private university presidents continue to rise, so do the number of adjunct professors working on wages described as 'unlivable.'By...
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Choose Your Own Identity: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
By BONNIE TSUI DEC. 14, 2015, New York TimesImage from article, with caption: A series of photographs from "The Hapa Project" by the artist Kip FulbeckI never realized how little I understood race...
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‘Sunni front’ against terror is a bad idea
Murat Yetkin, hurriyetdailynews.comimage fromExcerpt:U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has praised a new “Saudi-led Islamic anti-terrorism alliance” as being “in line with U.S. calls for a greater...
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Restricted Areas: Photographer Captures The Eerie Abandoned Remains of Soviet...
thevintagenews.com; via MC; see also.What once were the symbols of Russia’s Cold War military might, now are abandoned, eerie ghosts in the snow.These stunning images are part of the Restricted Areas,...
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Notes on a recent USA campus controversy: God, Christians and Moslems
Acts of Faith: Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? College suspends professor who said yes.By Kirkland An, December 16, Washington Post [See also below quotations from"NOSTRA AETATE" and...
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Facebook Comment on a water-throwing incident in the independent Republic of...
Ukrainian minister throws water in Odessa governor's faceSpat between Arsen Avakov and Mikheil Saakashvili follows a brawl between an MP and the prime minister last weekTHEGUARDIAN.COM|BY SHAUN...
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Evelyn Lieberman - A Remembrance
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgWednesday, December 16th 2015Evelyn S. Lieberman, the first Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs from 1999 to 2001, passed away December 12 in...
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Diplomacy Falls on Hard Times
Georgie Anne Geyer, uexpress.com; via SRJ on FacebookImage from [JB note: USIA -- see below -- known during the Cold War overseas as USIS [United States Information Service], was humorously referred by...
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Guidelines for kids who move back home to gain their financial footing: Note...
washingtonpost.comBe patient. This might take a little longer than you think. But you can help your children achieve financial independence. (A.J. Rich/iStock)By Michelle Singletary Columnist December...
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Half Of The United States Lives In These Counties: Note for a Lecture, "E...
Walter Hickey and Joe Weisenthal, businessinsider.com (2013); via SRJ on FacebookUsing Census data, we've figured out that half of the United States population is clustered in just the 146 biggest...
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Anger: An American History: Note for a Lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
By STACY SCHIFF DEC. 18, 2015, New York Times; see also Tomdispatch: John Brown on the War on Terror as an Indian War (2006)Cotton Mather image from articleWHERE, many have asked these last weeks, do...
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Equality and American Democracy: Note for a Lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
Danielle Allen, Foreign AffairsWhy Politics Trumps EconomicsSince the trend toward rising economic inequality in the United States became apparent in the 1990s, scholars and commentators have heatedly...
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All Things Being Unequal: Note for a Lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
By JAMES RYERSON DEC. 15, 2015, New York Timesimage from articlePresident Obama calls economic inequality “the defining challenge of ourtime.” Pope Francis tells us that “today we also have to say...
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