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- touche posted on 06/23/2008
- touche posted on 06/21/2008paradox apparently self-contradictory statement, the underlying meaning of which is revealed only by careful scrutiny. The purpose of a paradox is to arrest attention and provoke fresh thought. The statement ¡°Less is more¡± is an example. Francis Bacon's saying, ¡°The most corrected copies are commonly the least correct,¡± is an earlier literary example. In George Orwell's anti-utopian satire Animal Farm (1945), the first commandment of the animals' commune is revised into a witty paradox: ¡°All anim
- touche posted on 06/13/2008I like this guy. One of the best. Son of a garbage collector. I always counted on him for some good analyses. *** Newsman Tim Russert dies at 58 (CNN) - Tim Russert, who became one of America's leading political journalists as the host of NBC's "Meet the Press," died Friday, according to the network. He was 58. The network said he collapsed at work Friday. He was taken to Washington's Sibley Memorial Hospital where he died, the hosp
- touche posted on 06/10/2008April 14, 2008: 10:23 AM EDT What Warren thinks... With Wall Street in chaos, Fortune naturally went to Omaha looking for wisdom. Warren Buffett talks about the economy, the credit crisis, Bear Stearns, and more. By Nicholas Varchaver (Fortune Magazine) -- If Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, scheduled for May 3 this year, is known as the Woodstock of Capitalism, then perhaps this is the equivalent of Bob Dylan playing a private show in his own house: Some 15 times a year Berkshire CEO Warre
- touche posted on 06/07/2008Germaine de Staël Encyclopædia Britannica Article Germaine de Staël born April 22, 1766, Paris, Fr. died July 14, 1817, Paris Germaine de Staël, portrait by Jean-Baptiste Isabey, 1810; in the Louvre, Paris Giraudon/Art Resource, New York in full Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Baronne (baroness) de Staël-Holstein , byname Madame de Staël French-Swiss woman of letters, political propagandist, and conv
- touche posted on 06/06/2008
- touche posted on 06/05/2008Å·°ÍÂí»ñµÃÃñÖ÷µ³×ÜͳÌáÃû£¬ÊǸöÀúÊ·ÐÔʼþ£¬ÁîÈ˹ÄÎè¡£ ÎÒÒ»¿ªÊ¼¾ÍÊÇÅ·°ÍÂíÖ§³ÖÕß¡£µ«ÊǺÍÉÙÄê¸èÃÔ³ç°Ý¸èÐÇżÏñ°ãµÄ¿à¹Ï²»Ò»Ñù£¬ÎÒ¶ÔÅ·°ÍÂíÖ§³ÖÊÇÓб£ÁôµÄ¡£ Å·°ÍÂíΪʲô»áʤ¹ý¿ËÁÖ¶Ù£¿ÊÇÒòΪ´óÖڸоõËýµÄÒ»¸öÍÈÊÇÔÚ¹ýÈ¥µÄ£¬¶àÊýÈ˲¢²»ÁôÁµ¿ËÁÖ¶ÙÍõ³¯¡£Å·°ÍÂíÊÇ¿áÏÈÉú£¬ÄêÇᣬ¿´ÉÏÈ¥´ÏÃô£¬ÓкÑø£¬¾ßÓÐÈ˸ñÎüÒýÁ¦¡£¹«ÖÚÇó±ä£¬¶ÔËûµÄÑ¡Ôñ£¬¿É˵ÊÇÀíÐԵģ¬Ò²¿É˵ÊÇ·ÇÀíÐԵġ££¨ÕâÊÇÕâÑùÒ»¸ö³¡ºÏ£ºÈËÃÇ»áÎʵ½µ×ʲôÊÇÀíÐÔ£¿£© Å·°ÍÂíÊÇÈýÈËÖйúʾÑé×îÉٵģ¬Æ¾¾ÑéÑ¡£¬ÎÒ²»»áÑ¡Ëû¡£µ«ÊÇÒ²ÐíÎÒÃÇÇó±äÐÄÇУ¬ÎÒÃÇÔ¸ÒâÌøÈëδ֪µÄÊÀ½ç£¬Ò²²»ÔÒâ×ß
- touche posted on 05/28/2008
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- touche posted on 05/21/2008The Economist, usually loves to take jabs at Chinese authority, has this in recent issue: Days of disaster May 15th 2008 | BEIJING AND DUJIANGYAN From The Economist print edition Two natural disasters; two very different responses. We look first at the government's response to the earthquake in China, then at poor Myanmar ¡°DON'T cry, don't cry. It's a disaster, and you've survived,¡± China's prime minister, Wen Jiabao, told weeping orphans in a town almost flattened by the country
- touche posted on 05/21/2008
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- touche posted on 05/18/2008
- touche posted on 05/15/2008Thursday, May. 08, 2008 Jhumpa Lahiri: The Quiet Laureate By Lev Grossman Among the things you will not find in Jhumpa Lahiri's fiction are: humor, suspense, cleverness, profound observations about life, vocabulary above the 10th-grade level, footnotes and typographical experiments. It is debatable whether her keyboard even has an exclamation point on it. In person, Lahiri is almost as reserved as she is on the page. She is tall and sle
- touche posted on 05/13/2008Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause By Kevin Merida Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, May 13, 2008; A01 Danielle Ross was alone in an empty room at the Obama campaign headquarters in Kokomo, Ind., a cellphone in one hand, a voter call list in the other. She was stretched out on the carpeted floor wearing laceless sky-blue Converses, stories from the trail on her mind. It was the day before Indiana's primary, and she
- touche posted on 05/13/2008Record Rice Crop Seen World rice production will hit a record high this year, but increasing demand and restrictions on exports will keep prices high, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Monday. Global prices of staple foods have risen more than 40 percent in the past year, leading to shortages, hoarding and riots in some developing countries. Rice prices have soared 76 percent since December, and world stocks are at their lowest since the early 1980s. Concepci¨®n Calpe, a senior econom
- touche posted on 05/13/2008
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- touche posted on 05/11/2008Michael Dirda The "true glory" and "overwhelming pressure" of being Albert Camus. By Michael Dirda Sunday, May 11, 2008; BW12 NOTEBOOKS 1951-1959 By Albert Camus Translated from the French by Ryan Bloom Ivan R. Dee. 264 pp. $27.50 Many people who grew up in the 1950s and '60s worshipped Albert Camus as a literary god -- albeit a god in a rumpled trenchcoat, with a Gauloise in his left hand. Even more than Jean-Paul S
- touche posted on 05/11/2008This Mob Is Big in Japan By Jake Adelstein Sunday, May 11, 2008; B02 I have spent most of the past 15 years in the dark side of the rising sun. Until three years ago, I was a crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper, and covered a roster of characters that included serial killers who doubled as pet breeders, child pornographers who abducted junior high-school girls, and the John Gotti of Japan. I came to Japan in 1988 at age 19, spent most of college living in a Zen B
- touche posted on 05/06/2008From 'Secrets of Tibet' Tuesday, May 6, 2008; A10 An excerpt from "Secrets of Tibet," one of the few poems by Woeser that have been translated into English: Once in a while, the masked demon reveals its true face, frightening even the ancient deities. Yet, the challenges have emboldened the ordinary birth; who turn prayers in the deep nights into cries under the sun, who convert whines behind the high walls into song
- touche posted on 05/04/2008
- touche posted on 04/23/2008http://www.angryrenter.com/ Backlash grows against the housing bailout Many Americans want no part of a government-funded bailout for troubled mortgage borrowers. By Les Christie, CNNMoney.com staff writer Last Updated: April 23, 2008: 3:34 PM EDT NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Why should American taxpayers have to pay to bailout reckless lenders and borrowers? The website Angryrenter.com, launched just last week, has a vitiation demanding that Congress not pass any bailout programs that reward ri
- touche posted on 04/23/2008Food Crisis Is Depicted As 'Silent Tsunami' Sharp Price Hikes Leave Many Millions in Hunger By Kevin Sullivan Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, April 23, 2008; A01 LONDON, April 22 -- More than 100 million people are being driven deeper into poverty by a "silent tsunami" of sharply rising food prices, which have sparked riots around the world and threaten U.N.-backed feeding programs for 20 million children, the top U.N. food official said Tuesday. "This is the new face of hung
- touche posted on 04/23/2008The End of Shopping By Robert J. Samuelson Wednesday, April 23, 2008; A21 Transfixed by unruly financial markets, we may be missing the year's biggest economic story: the end of the Great American Shopping Spree. For the past quarter-century, Americans have been on an unprecedented consumption binge -- for cars, TVs, longer vacations. The consequences have been profound, and the passage to something different may not be an improvement. It was the ever-expanding stream of consumer spending tha
- touche posted on 04/04/2008
- touche posted on 03/24/2008In my judgement, Richardson was one (if not the most) decent human being among this years' democratic presidential candidates. He chose to endorse Obama. What he said here is right on the temple! *************************************** Monday, March 24, 2008; A02 New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) said that the people around Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) practice "gutter" politics and that they feel entitled to the presidency, a day after an informal adviser to her campaign compared Ric
- touche posted on 02/25/2008Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008 Why Liberals Love McCain By Michael Kinsley Republicans have pulled some dirty tricks before: Swift Boats, Watergate, you name it. But this time they have gone too far. In its desperate hunger for victory at any cost, the Republican Party is on the verge of choosing a presidential candidate, John McCain, who is widely regarded (everywhere except inside the Republican Party itself) as honest, courageous, likable and intelligent. Have they no shame? More important: Have they
- touche posted on 02/22/2008There's the Beef By Steven Pearlstein Friday, February 22, 2008; D01 During the course of our endless presidential campaigns, lots of silly things are said by the candidates and the press. But few are more ridiculous than the idea that Barack Obama is just an empty suit. We're talking here about a former president of the Harvard Law Review. Have you ever met the people who get into Harvard Law School? You might not choose them as friends or lovers or godparents to your children, but -- trust m
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