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Wine for China from Israel?
Monday, November 11, 2013Wine for ChinaNews item:China’s love of wine is growing at such a rate that it is expected to become the world’s largest consumer of wine by 2016...The country’s love of wine...
View ArticleVeterans Day -- Via K2 GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS LLC (I know nothing about K2;...
From: K2 Global Communications (found on the Internet) on this Veterans Day [includes videos]GOD HAVE MERCY ON THE FORLORN SOLDIERBy Sgt. Harry Shaw,U.S. Army Retired, Bandera, Texas14 Feb., 2013It is...
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November 11 Public Diplomacy Review
"No words necessary" --Your PDPBR compilerImage from; see alsoAL JAZEERA PROGRAM ON CULTURAL DIPLOMACYSelling America abroad - The Stream Team, Al Jazeera: "Can the government use music and art to...
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November 12-13 Public Diplomacy Review
"H. G. Wells once famously described Henry James as a hippopotamus trying to pick up a pea."--Poet Christian Wiman; cited in the Times Literary Supplement (November 8, 2013), p. 7; image...
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The Write Stuff: Some states move to save cursive in the classroom
The Write Stuff: Some states move to save cursive in the classroom (Washington Times)COMMENTS (0)SIZE: + / -PRINTShare on facebookShare on twitterShare on google_plusone_shareShare on redditShare on...
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Lessons from the humanities and social sciences
Back to previous pageLessons from the humanities and social sciencesBy Mary Sue Coleman and John L. Hennessy, Published: November 14Mary Sue Coleman is president of the University of Michigan. John L....
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November 14 Public Diplomacy Review
“Whenever one speaks, especially in this type of setting, I am reminded especially of what a friend in Texas told me. ‘Public speaking is like a Texas longhorn: there’s a point here, a point here and a...
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Exporting education with MOOCs -- beware of techno-exhuberance
Exporting Education8253 Online courses are taking off in developing countries, but there’s a major downside.By Anya Kamenetz, SlateBolivian students in 2010. Can rising computer-teaching in developing...
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More notes for a lecture: "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States...
GovBeatWhich of the 11 American nations do you live in?Reid Wilson, Washington PostRed states and blue states? Flyover country and the coasts? How simplistic. Colin Woodard, a reporter at the Portland...
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November 15 Public Diplomacy Review
“I stood in line for an hour and a half to eat really bad pizza.”--U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, a Rhodes scholar recalling his first visit to the Soviet Union in 1983; image from: Pizza...
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November 16 Public Diplomacy Review
"How many PRT [U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Team] staff members does it take to screw in a light bulb? One to hire a contractor who fails to complete the job and two to write the press release in the...
View ArticleReview of THOMAS JEFFERSON’S QUR’AN: Islam and the Founders
People of the BookBy KIRK DAVIS SWINEHART -- New York TimesTHOMAS JEFFERSON’S QUR’ANIslam and the FoundersBy Denise A. SpellbergIllustrated. 392 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $27.95.Divining a man’s beliefs...
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November 17 Public Diplomacy Review
"When Blücher [Hannah Arendt’s devoted if wayward husband Heinrich Blücher] tries to leave one morning without kissing her, since 'one should never disturb a great philosopher when they’re [sic]...
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How to be rich in America -- be a college president
A gilded goodbye for many private college leadersPresidents’ retirement pay and perks can run into the millions, one more driver of soaring college tuition costsBy Todd Wallack | GLOBE STAFF...
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Book Review: 'The Cave and the Light,' by Arthur Herman - Roger Kimball,Wall Street JournalIn the pantheon of Dead White European Males, are there any specimens more deeply interred than Plato and...
View ArticleNotes for a lecture: "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United"
Drew Gilpin Faust: 150 years after the Gettysburg Address, is government by the people in trouble? - host.madison.com. Via VDBOne of the most remarkable aspects of the Civil War is that it was fought...
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November 18 Public Diplomacy Review
Abbreviated editionArtist nails his scrotum to the ground in Red Square--Image from"Always remember that you are absolutely unique, just like everyone else."--Anthropologist Margar Meadt "[W]e have a...
View ArticleIs Microsoft anti-Lithuanian?
In my modest efforts to organize the third event (scheduled for December 2) for the Public Diplomacy Council's "Public Diplomacy as a Global Phenomenon" series, which thus far has included the kind and...
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RIP palmOne - Zire '72
After more than a decade of faithful service, my palmOne handheld died today, despite my anguished efforts to resuscitate it.It was wonderful instrument in allowing its user not to be "connectable" at...
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To Fight Obesity, a Carrot, and a Stick
FIXESNovember 16, 2013, 2:35 pm 65 CommentsTo Fight Obesity, a Carrot, and a StickBy TINA ROSENBERG - New York TimesFixes looks at solutions to social problems and why they work.TAGS:DIET AND...
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