Thursday, August 19, 2004

eBay Buys Craigslist Stake

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Leslie Walker reports : "Part of the site's appeal is that it still feels like the early days of the Web, with a text-only desig...

Mariel Zagunis: Fencing's Female Knute Rockne.

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From the University of Notre Dame : "The Beaverton, Ore., native is the only fencer ever to win three gold medals at one World Cha...

The Truth About Olympic Water Polo

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From The Washington Post : "Sure, all these swimming races are exciting and inspiring and all that, but after a few days of watching...

The Botswanan Fandorin

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The Scotsman reports on the publishing phenomenon (tip from Artsjournal): "With sales topping five million in English, Precious Ra...
Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Solzhenitsyn: The Lion in Winter

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By Anatoly Korolev : "Solzhenitsyn's recent appearance on television has dispelled the persistent rumors about him suffering fr...

Mark Twain v. Jane Austen

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James Fenimore Cooper wasn't Twain's only literary target. He also had some choice words for Jane Austen: "I haven't any...

Twain v. Cooper

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By the way, Mark Twain wrote a critique of James Fenimore Cooper, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses . It might make good preparation f...

Does Democracy Cause Terrorism (continued)?

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The Guardian's special report on Terrorism in the UK.

Denmark's Abu Ghraib?

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From Bjorn Staerk : "The Danes have been having their own little torture scandal this summer. A Danish officer-- Annemette Hommel--...

Arafat's Media Relations Strategy

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Jeff Jacoby writes : " In his 1989 memoir From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas Friedman wrote that "physical intimidation" wa...

America's Cultural Mecca: Upstate New York

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This weekend we went to the Glimmerglass Opera Festival, where we saw Richard Rodney Bennett's The Mines of Sulphur, an entertaining gh...

Does Democracy Cause Terrorism?

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According to an article in The New Statesman, cited by Daniel Pipes , England is home not only to the Mother of Parliaments, but to British-...

George F. Will on Iraqi Sensitivities

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George F. Will's column today may have been inspired by a C-Span caller, who challenged him vis-a-vis Republican attacks on John Kerry...
Saturday, August 14, 2004

Be Careful Who You Step On On Your Way Up...

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...because they will remember you on your way down. To illustrate that proverb, here's the website for the Vietnam Swift Boat Veterans ...

The Un-Captive Mind of Czeslaw Milosz:

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Czeslaw Milosz has passed away, in his native Poland. He taught at Berkeley while I was studying philosophy, and although I never took his c...

Doctors Without Borders, Call Your Office...

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Cheryl Benard writes in Opinion Journal : "The new generation of terrorists does not spare unarmed humanitarians. They do not leave...

Latest Iraq News

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From Healing Iraq : "As if the suffering of thousands of Najafis who were caught in between and the deaths of Iraqi policemen and ...

Poetry from Afghanistan

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At www.afghanmagazine.com .

Olympic Games: What Is Past, Is Prologue

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In the Washington Post, Sally Jenkins explains the history of the Olympics: "The truth is that Ancient Greeks competed naked rathe...

The Olympic Truce

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Watching the opening ceremonies from Athens, noted a reference to "the Olympic truce," which seemed a counterpoint to press storie...