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Polls in Russia: A Facebook comment on Putin's sky-high popularity polls
John Brown I've never believed in "polls," no matter in what country (we all know Gertrude Stein's reputed quip http://www.bartleby.com/73/989.html (I paraphrase), when asked, "What is the answer?" to...
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Image for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United"
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Columbia University Press to Publish New Translations of Russian Literature
via BL on Facebooknytimes.comBy ANDREW ROTH JUNE 28, 2015MOSCOW — Russian and American academics, publishers and Russiangovernment officials announced on Saturday that they would collaborate on...
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German dialect in Texas is one of a kind, and dying out: Note for a lecture,...
Via OM on Facebook; see also.bbc.com15 May 2013 Last updated at 01:02 BSTThe first German settlers arrived in Texas over 150 years ago and successfully passed on their native language throughout the...
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US now has more Spanish speakers than Spain – only Mexico has more: Note for...
via MP on FacebookStephen Burgen in Barcelona, theguardian.comUS has 41 million native speakers plus 11 million who are bilingualNew Mexico, California, Texas and Arizona have highest...
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The Man Who Predicted Putin
via IL on Facebookthedailybeast.comVladimir Voinovich, Russia’s 82-year-old satirist, on why the rise of a KGB man was inevitable but why Russia’s decline and fall into authoritarianism doesn’t have to...
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The Rise and Fall of the Human Terrain System
[JB note: An important article on a notable recent academic/military boondoggle -- or "science" shamelessly (for money) at the service of power, also known in another context/era as La Trahison des...
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Ukraine's Orange Blues
Alexander J. Motyl, worldaffairsjournal.orgMotyl image from entryVia AH on Facebook29 June 2015The most striking thing about Lviv, Kyiv, and a number of small towns and villages I’ve recently visited...
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Nabokov’s America
newyorker.comBY JOHN COLAPINTOSHARETWEETOn February 3, 1954, Vladimir Nabokov wrote to James Laughlin, the founder of New Directions, “Would you be interested in publishing a timebomb that I have just...
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A nuclear conflict with Russia is likelier than you think -- Meanwhile,...
[JB note: Scary, ahistorical piece, reads like a script for a minor Hollywood action movie to open on the Fourth of July -- and so is bound to be taken seriously by some members of the U.S. (if not...
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PHILIP REID AND THE STATUE OF FREEDOM - Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum?...
One of the most significant contributions by an African American slave in the construction of the Capitol was made by Philip Reid.When construction of the Capitol began in 1793, Washington, D.C., was...
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Selling Off Apache Holy Land: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
nytimes.comMAY 29, 2015Lydia MilletTucsonABOUT an hour east of Phoenix, near a mining town called Superior,men, women and children of the San Carlos Apache tribe have been campedout at a place called...
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Готовится новая концепция культурной политики за рубежом
izvestia.ruНИИ культурного и природного наследия им. Д.С. Лихачева предлагает пересмотреть объемы господдержки дней культуры и фестивалей в других странахimage from article, with caption: Экспозиция...
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THE RISE OF SIBERIAN NATIONALISM
via AH on Facebookwilsonquarterly.comBY ELIZABETH PEETWhat explains the resurgence in Siberian regionalism in recent years, and what implications does it have for Putin’s Russia?image from[JB Comment:...
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There's no reason to debate guacamole. It's already gentrified beyond good...
Jeff Winklertheguardian.comIn Texas, we have real debates about real issues – like barbecue. Guacamole is just corporate-approved bourgeois mush these days America used to be great. So did guacamole....
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Conservative Southern Values Revived: How a Brutal Strain of American...
alternet.orgSara Robinson, June 28, 2012image fromIt's been said that the rich are different than you and me. What most Americans don't know is that they're also quite different from each other, and...
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Минюст РФ призвал россиян «сигналить» о «нежелательных» НКО
[JB note: Lovers of Russian bureaucratic language may wish to look at the highlighted passage below.]znak.comВ Минюсте России призвали граждан страны поучаствовать в выявлении «нежелательных»...
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America’s politicians take courageous, bipartisan stand against peas in...
By Elahe Izadi July 1 Good guacamole does not need peas. (Deb Lindsey/The Washington Post)An outrageous proposition was lodged Wednesday: Put peas in guacamole, exhorted the New York Times.Nope....
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AMERICA'S CHANGEABLE CIVIL WAR. Note for a lecture. "E Pluribus Unum? What...
CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN, wilsonquarterly.comAs the Civil War Sesquicentennial approaches cruising speed, North and South look a great deal more alike than they did on the eve of the war’s last great...
View ArticleGruesome weekend for Chicago leaves city, police chief reeling - Note for a...
By Holly Yan and Leslie Holland, CNNChicago police: 7-year-old killed amid weekend violence 01:22Story highlightsA 7-year-old son of a gang member is shot and killedPolice superintendent: A broken...
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