Интервью Керенского. Радио Канада 1964 год
See/hear, esp., for those studying the Russian language.
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Split Personality
wsj.comWill Ukraine become part of the West, like Poland? Or will it be drawn back into Moscow’s shadow, like a larger version of Belarus?By EDWARD LUCASUkraine is the laboratory for experiments that...
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The UN library announced its most-checked-out book of 2015. It's kind of...
Dylan Matthews, vox.comThe Dag Hammarskjöld Library at the United Nations — named after the secretary general who died in 1961 — doesn't make the news very often. Meant to be used by the professional...
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affluenza
image from1. Social condition that affects a society because of the elevated number of individuals striving to be wealthy. People within the society feel that the only measure of success is determined...
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An Unanswered Prayer (thus far) from Robert Reich re "adjuncts" at USA...
image fromA Facebook comment (thus far -- 4:45 pm, 1/7/2016) to an online discussion to Professor Robert Reich:John Brown Dear Professor, Allow an off-topic question: As an adjunct at a prestigious...
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Zbig in his old age?
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski image fromDmitry Andreyevich Kulagin image from
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The Best in Art of 2015
By HOLLAND COTTER and ROBERTA SMITHDEC. 9, 2015The co-chief art critics for The New York Times on the most notable themes of the year.PhotoCreditClockwise from top left: Stephanie Diani for The New...
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The Many Manipulations of Henry Kissinger
via MvH on FacebookDavid Milne, thenation.comKissinger image from articleIn his new biography, Niall Ferguson is blind to his subject’s recklessness and treachery.Dwight Eisenhower’s televised farewell...
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Cass R. Sunstein, Parking the Big Money, New York Review of Books:The fractions of wealth held abroad are highly variable. In Europe, it is about 10 percent. In African and Latin countries, it is much...
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Challenging the Oligarchy: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
Paul Krugman, New York Review of BooksDECEMBER 17, 2015 ISSUESaving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Fewby Robert B. ReichKnopf, 279 pp., $26.95Robert B. Reich; drawing by James FergusonBack in 1991,...
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John Hope Franklin: Race and the Meaning of America: Note for a lecture, "E...
Drew Gilpin Faust, New York Review of BooksDECEMBER 17, 2015 ISSUEPeter Foley/epa/CorbisBill Clinton and John Hope Franklin discussing race relations in America at the New York Public Library, October...
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Whoopi Goldberg: Stop calling me ‘African-American’: Note for a lecture, "E...
Jessica Chasmar, The Washington Times - Wednesday, January 6, 2016image from article, with caption: "The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg said Tuesday that she is proud to be an American, rejecting the...
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Top Venezuelan Lawmaker Was Called ‘Repellent’ by U.S. Official
By Ernesto Londoño January 8, 2016 2:48 pm, New York TimesRamos image from articleThe American government was thrilled by the landslide victory of theVenezuelan opposition in last December’s...
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America’s seismic divide on race continues: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus...
Donald Trump speaks at a rally aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., last month. (Mic Smith/Associated Press)By Danielle Allen January 8 at 7:46 PM Washington PostDanielle...
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Экономические последствия распада РФ. Только факты, без эмоций
via NIM on Facebookbusinessviews.comРаспад Российской Федерации не приведет к хаосу. Наоборот, экономический потенциал новых государств обеспечит населению большинства из них достойную жизнь. А...
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17 слов русского языка, которые когда то были фамилиями
voxpop_66 (voxpop_66) wrote, 2016-01-03 12:08:00 via VM on FcebookЕсть слова, которые мы часто употребляем, но при этом совершенно не помним, что когда-то они были еще и чьими-то именами или фамилиями....
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Филологические анекдоты
via LG on FacebookНиколай Подосокорский, philologist.livejournal.comФилологические анекдотыЛев Толстой писал свои романы тушью от Max Factor и от этого они приобретали дополнительный объём, длину и...
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Pedagogy with a Hammer: On the Use and Abuse of Nietzsche for a Neoliberal Era
Mimi Howard on Anti-Education, lareviewofbooks.orgimage fromJanuary 9th, 2016HIGHER EDUCATION in the United States is in crisis, or so they say. For the past few years, journalists have followed its...
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Force Awakens is a good-natured, winking hunk of junk: Note for a lecture, "E...
Philip Martin, nwaonline.com"New rubbish dialogue reaches me every day, and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable."-- Alec Guinness, writing from the set of the original Star WarsThe...
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The Four-Dimensional Human by Laurence Scott review – how has the digital...
Will Self, theguardian.com [original article includes links]Image from article, with caption: ‘The “global village” is, it transpires, not some Laurie Lee hamlet where everyone brings in the hay...
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