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For Francophiles only ... Se Moocher
Inspired by Duh Mooch [Fired White House Menteur (i.e., Communications Director)]image fromimage from"Se Moucher" -- Blow your nose ...
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Harvard faces discrimination probe while accepting mostly nonwhite class -...
cnn.comimage from(CNN) Harvard College's admitted freshmen last year became the first class in the school's multi-century history comprised of mostly nonwhite students.And again, for the second year in...
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A Better Way to Reward CEOs - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
Wall Street JournalCBS chief executive Leslie Moonves. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG NEWSByPhilip Delves BroughtonJuly 31, 2017 7:03 p.m. ET22 COMMENTSIn 1978 the average chief executive at a large company was paid...
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The Walls We Won’t Tear Down - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
By RICHARD D. KAHLENBERG AUG. 3, 2017, New York Timesimage from articleONE hundred years ago, in a major advance for human dignity, the Supreme Courtstruck down a racial zoning law in Louisville, Ky.,...
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Уравнять в бедности
Петр Черемушкин, Радио СвободаСокращение штата дипломатических представительств ударит прежде всего по российским гражданам, сотрудникам посольств и консульств, которые верой и правдой работали на...
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When Did Colonial America Gain Linguistic Independence? - Note for a...
via SL on FacebookJohn Trumbull's Declaration of Independence (1819)via Wikimedia CommonsWhen did Americans start sounding funny to English ears? By the time the Declaration of Independence was signed...
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Why Trump Supporters Distrust Immigration and Diversity - Note for a...
By FREDERICK R. LYNCH AUG. 4, 2017, New York TimesImage from article, with caption: The audience for an address by President Trump in Huntington, W. Va., on ThursdayPresident Trump’s support for a...
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Cold War Archive: U.S. Diplomats In Moscow Have Endured Without Support Staff...
via PT on FacebookRobert Coalson, rferl.orguncaptioned image from articleOn the morning of October 24, 1986, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Arthur Hartman drove himself to work.Later that day, the...
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Homecoming
The Times Literary Supplement (July 29. 2017) [JB comment: a remarkable, moving piece; should be of interest to persons focusing on Eastern Europe.]John Murray Thomson, mid-1990s; Ingrid Thomson, early...
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На балу у Воланда. Миссия в Москву/At Woland’s Ball: Mission to Mark Teeter...
Mark H. Teeter added 4 new photos. [fron Facebook]34 mins · MOSCOW TV TONITE: US-Soviet Relations, Through a Glass RosilyНа балу у Воланда. Миссия в Москву/At Woland’s Ball: Mission to Moscow...
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British Council’s era of soft power ends as it winds up work before Brexit
David BrownAugust 5 2017, 12:01am, The Times Sir Ian McKellen helping the British Council to mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare in Moscow last yearVALERIY BELOBEEV/BRITISH COUNCIL A...
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Diversity programs at Google discriminatory, says engineer's anti-diversity...
Elizabeth Weise, USATODAYimage from articleSAN FRANCISCO — A document written by an unnamed senior software engineer at Google suggesting the company encourage "ideological" rather than gender...
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Tompor: Where do families get nearly $24,000 for one year of college?
Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press Personal Finance Columnist, USA Today [article contains video]image from articleWant another scary stat about all those college bills?Nearly 9 in 10 families always...
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Affirmative Action Policies Evolve, Achieving Their Own Diversity - Note for...
By VIVIAN YEE AUG. 5, 2017, New York TimesImage from article, with caption: The campus of Princeton University, where 9 percent of students are black. The school's admission process was the subject of...
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Enjoy your meal!
Article citing White House Advisor Stephen Miller statement (plus photo) atMiller image from***From: rebloggy.com“Terns? If I help you, Clarice, it will be ‘turns’ with us too. Quid pro quo. I tell...
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College Is Trade School for the Elite
Allen Guelzo, Wall Street Journalimage from articleEven education in the humanities has become vocationalized, though the transformation is subtle.Excerpt:Judged by the catalogs, curricula and websites...
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The cult of Babel: Odessa's literary flashmobs attract book-loving tourists
theguardian.comThe Black Sea city may lack the pedigree of St Petersburg but it was home to Isaac Babel, and has a storied past as a stopping point for globe-trotting intellectuals Odessa tries to...
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What Is Harvard Hiding? - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
The Editorial Board, Wall Street JournalImage from article, with caption: Graduating students at Harvard on May 25Evidence of bias against Asian-Americans deserves legal scrutiny.One microdrama last...
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College Legacy Admissions: Affirmative Action for Whites - Note for a...
AUG. 6, 2017, New York Timesimage fromTo the Editor:Re "U.S. Rights Unit Shifts to Study Antiwhite Bias" (front page, Aug. 2):With the Justice Department moving to challenge affirmative action in...
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Was modern art a weapon the CIA?
bbc.com (via FW; many thanks) [JB - from: ''George Kennan, later an ardent détentist, put it succinctly: ''This country has no Ministry of Culture, and C.I.A. was obliged to do what it could to try...
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