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Will Kadyrov suceed Putin?
Кадыров предложил разрешить многоженство на КавказеГлава Чечни Рамзан Кадыров считает, что для таких регионов как Дагестан, Чеченская республика, Ингушетия, многоженство должно быть...
View ArticleWallace, David Foster, "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" Note...
See Review of Contemporary Fiction, 13:2 (1993:Summer)e unibus pluramfrom one, manyMock Latin. Notably heard by Giles Goat Boy in John Barth's novel Giles Goat-Boy and the title of an essay ("E Unibus...
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Enjoy the show!
Via NK on Facebookwww.kp.ru Большом Завидово Тверской областиФото: РИА Новости«Нашествие-2015» пройдет при поддержке десантников-акробатов Комментарии: 1Участникам фестиваля впервые покажут...
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Our All-American Prefix of the Month: "Trans"
America, often in a trance, has woken up to trans. Sure, "tranvestite" has long been in circulation. But now trans-the-friendly-prefix has dramatically expanded its reach in the Land of Personal...
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Charleston Shooting: Note for a lecture, "E Puribus Unum? What Keeps the...
June 19, 2015nytimes.com/firstdraft »Charleston Shooting Leads to a Campaign PauseSenator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on Thursday visited a memorial site at the church where nine people were...
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No Sex Jokes Please, French Government Advises Travelers to U.S.
by Gregory Viscusi, bloomberg.comJune 18, 2015 — 7:53 AM EDTThe French shouldn’t be too French when they visit the U.S.That’s the advice being doled out by the French government to its citizens...
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Wow: McDonald's to shrink in U.S.
usatoday.comCandace Choi, The Associated Press9:47 p.m. EDT June 18, 2015(Photo: Mike Groll, AP)CONNECT 86TWEET 26LINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORENEW YORK — The burger chain that put "supersize" into the...
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Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United"
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Oscar Wilde on America
In an epigraph to his book, Wilson quotes Oscar Wilde:The crude commercialism of America, its materializing spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things and its lack of imagination ... are...
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a resurrected dishwasher and the pleasures of life
Perhaps the greatest pleasures in life are the smallest ones.Here's why:For some unknown reason, my dishwasher stops working. I fiddle around with it, rapidly turn its control buttons off and on, close...
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Historian Timothy Snyder: 'History Is Always Plural'
Via SW on Facebook[JB note: My review of Snyder's Bloodlandsat; also a review of Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order (2015) that briefly deals with the question of Ukraine...
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Charleston and the Age of Obama: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
David Remnick, newyorker.comBetween 1882 and 1968, the year Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, three thousand four hundred and forty-six black men, women, and children were lynched in this...
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Is Hispanic an Ethnic Category or a Racial Category? Note for a lecture, "E...
Stephanie Medley-Rath, sociologyinfocus.comSociologists use the terms race and ethnicity to mean different things even though many Americans use the terms interchangeably. In this post, Stephanie...
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Don’t Tear Down the Confederate Battle Flag - Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus...
nationalreview.comimage (and interesting text about the images) fromby DAVID FRENCH June 19, 2015Like many Southern boys, I grew up with two flags hanging in my room — an American flag and a...
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White Terrorism is as Old as America -- Note for a lecture. "E Pluribus Unum?...
nytimes.com, Britt Bennett:[JB note: This well-intentioned piece -- by simplistically turning the racial cards around -- is regrettably unconvincing as an explanation of/solution to the Charleston...
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«Мы отстали от Запада лет на двести»: интервью с Петром Авеном и Мариной Лошак
via VF on FacebookЭльмар Муртазаев, forbes.ruimage from article, with caption: Крупнейшие коллекции миллиардеров: рейтинг Forbes; more detailed image of above atЭльмар Муртазаев Один из крупнейших...
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Russia: Fathers and Sons, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, Readers and...
From an essay by Zinovy Zinik, The Times Literary Supplement (June 12, 2015), p. 16:A friend recommended a computer geek named Mark, a Russian student recently settled in England. Mark belongs to the...
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"Don't know about history ... Don't know much about geography" -- Note for a...
Part of the below via LOS on FacebookUser Actions FollowRyan McCarrel@ryanmccarrelThat awkward moment when #US gov report [jb: at] mistakes #Georgia for #Armenia& #Armenia for...
View ArticleSargent Shriver on American Unity - Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum?...
fromQUOTE OF THE WEEK"We have a statue of liberty on the east coast given to us by a foreign community. But we need a statue of unity built by all Americans, for all Americans -- in every American...
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За период 1930-1940 гг. американцы создали в СССР химическую, авиационную,...
Serge Borodin, politolog.net22.06.2015 17:51 Заразную шизофрению изобрели в США. Патрушев заразил Путина или наоборот? Загнивший запад исказил чистую православную душу и заставил рабочих работать…...
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