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Inside the Rainbow: how Soviet Russia tried to reinvent fairytales
Inside the Rainbow: how Soviet Russia tried to reinvent fairytalesBy Marina Lewycka'Tale of the Military Secret', illustrated by Vladimir Konashevich (1933)“REDS ARE RUINING CHILDREN OF RUSSIA” raged a...
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Viral Facebook post on CEO-worker pay ratio has obscure past: Notes for a...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/oct/10/facebook-posts/viral-facebook-post-ceo-worker-pay-ratio-has-obscu/The Truth-O-Meter Says:Say the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay in...
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Who's Watching Whom?
About 25 minutes ago I did a Google search to refresh my memory on where I lived for several years in Rome as a teenager (my Father was a diplomat at the U.S. Embassy there, 1958-1962). Lo and behold,...
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Does journalism have a future?NICHOLAS LEMANNGeorge BrockOUT OF PRINTNewspapers, journalism and the business of news in the digital age242pp. Kogan Page. Paperback, £19.99 (US $24.95).978 0 7494 6651...
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January 2 Public Diplomacy Review
DIPLOMATIC LIFEGifplomacy - C'est la vie of French Diplomats. Via DiploPunditBLOG OF INTERESTDeveloping TomorrowIMAGEVia RB on Facebook, with comment: "Uh, methinks the Associated Press needs to...
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Open Ending: Russia’s literary scene in 2013
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WHAT DO Y’ALL, YINZ, AND YIX CALL STRETCHY OFFICE SUPPLIES? - Notes for a...
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22 Signs You Were An International School Kid
BuzzFeedLOLWinOMGCuteTrashyFailWTF?What's HotNEWSENTERTAINMENTLIFEVIDEOMORENEW!GIF Feed!Follow22 Signs You Were An International School Kid“Your accent is so strange, you must be...
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Sochi, Tsar Vladimir's Black Sea St. Vladimirsburg
It is not unimportant to remember, in connection with the controversial Winter Olympics soon to be held in the Russian Federation, that President Vladimir Putin hails from St. Petersburg, the city (in...
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The Humanities Have Forgotten Their Humanity
The Humanities Have Forgotten Their Humanity - Heather Mac Donald, Wall Street JournalHeather Mac DonaldJan. 3, 2014 6:43 p.m. ETIn 2011, the University of California at Los Angeles wrecked its English...
View ArticleEvgeny vs. the internet
Evgeny vs. the internet - Michael Meyer, Columbia Journalism ReviewEvgeny Morozov wants to convince us that digital technology can’t save the world, and he’s willing to burn every bridge from Cambridge...
View ArticleThe social justice majority: Notes for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
The social justice majorityBy E.J. Dionne Jr., Sunday, January 5, 6:32 PM, Washington...
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January 3-4 Public Diplomacy Review
"We’ve got too many priests and not enough jesters."--Intenet skeptic Evgeny Morozov; image fromVIDEOThis World Oft Can Be - Paul Rockower, Levantine: Covers the State Department Central Asian tour of...
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January 5 Public Diplomacy Review
"Waste"--Industry parlance for Internet "low-value targets," the bottom 20 percent of customers, who may spend “too much” time on customer service calls, and may cost companies in returns or coupons,...
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On Such a Full Sea' a cautionary tale of the future: Notes for a lecture, "E...
BOOK REVIEW'On Such a Full Sea' a cautionary tale of the futureNovelist Chang-rae Lee's dark ride into a dystopia presents a heroine seeking to discover community and family in a world that has moved...
View ArticleThe American approach to immigration: Notes for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum?...
From Justin Smith, "Does Immigration Mean ‘France Is Over’?" New York TimesThe American approach to immigration is plainly rooted in historical exigencies connected to the appropriation of a continent,...
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Who in the First Family Took the First Selfie?
--Image from, with caption: April 11, 2013 “Chuck Kennedy photographed the First Lady as she takes a ‘selfie’ with Bo, the Obama family dog, for National Geographic.” (Official White House Photo by...
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January 6 Public Diplomacy Review
"While the civic, commercial context of the seventeenth-century public sphere was founded on rational exchange and the expectation that one's utterances would be accepted as truth, by the modernist...
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Here's What All 50 State Names Actually Mean: Notes for a lecture, "E...
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Popcorn diplomacy
Popcorn diplomacyThis summer's blockbuster film could be ChineseEthan Bilby January 5, 2014 Last Updated at 21:21 IST [via GR on facebook; see...
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