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ReturnsAndExchanges — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:22:53 +0000

William, you are a true inspiration, my friend! All the best of luck and may your mission be wildly successful! Cheers. (Readers, please feel free to support William’s organization, Cultures in Harmony).

http://www.juilliard.edu/journal/2010-2011/1009/articles/afghanistan.html

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Op-Ed Contributor – Pakistan, Drowning in Neglect – NYTimes.com

ReturnsAndExchanges — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:48:02 +0000

Bewildering account of a nuclear-tipped Muslim nation armed to the teeth and yet unable to help hundreds and hundreds of thousands of it’s people under water and in deep poverty. If you read nothing else, look at the last paragraph. Yes, all nations are inextricable knots of paradoxes, and Pakistan is no exception, but perhaps [...]

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? – NYTimes.com

ReturnsAndExchanges — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:42:40 +0000

One of the most interesting articles I’ve ever read on NYT.

The extent to which our mother tongue(s) influence(s) our spatial orientation, appreciation of color, form and pitch, and other critical aspects of the human experience is truly profound . The field of cognitive linguistics is only beginning to unravel the myriad mysteries of [...]

Book Review – Encounter – By Milan Kundera – NYTimes.com

ReturnsAndExchanges — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:03:06 +0000

Great collection of Kundera essays on art, music, history and the downfall of aesthetic importance in Europe. Promises to be a real treat.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/books/review/Simon-t.html?hp

- – Yuri Kruman

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Boston.com – Of Disgust and Morality

ReturnsAndExchanges — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:55:02 +0000

> This line of research makes the same fundamentally false assumption > as do people who believe kosher food is inherently more healthy. > “Well, not mixing milk and meat is healthier.” “Well, not eating > bottom-dwelling seafood avoids infection risk.” “Pork breeds > trichinosis.” The moral code behind kashrut isn’t based on health > [...]

Science’s dead end – Prospect Magazine « Prospect Magazine

ReturnsAndExchanges — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:36:45 +0000

The best of times, and the worst of times for scientific research. A prodigious mass of data funded by burgeoning grant money is to a large degree failing to produce new blockbuster theories and disease cures/ treatments. More importantly for that “universal theory of everything,” the predominant lines of inquiry have tended to value the [...]

it takes a village – bookforum.com / in print

ReturnsAndExchanges — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:52:57 +0000

Odile Hellier is an inspiration. Her Parisian independent bookstore isn’t only a landmark and intellectual outpost, but also sadly increasingly obsolete. Next time in Paris, a must-visit destination. All the best of luck to her, a keeper of the flame (some would say, a dinosaur).

http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/014_05/2054

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Movie Review – ‘A Film Unfinished’ – Yael Hersonski Revisits a Nazi Film of the Warsaw Ghetto – NYTimes.com

ReturnsAndExchanges — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:21:51 +0000

Not an easy genre in which to look at things with a fresh eye, but it seems director Yael Hersonski has done just that.

http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/movies/18unfinished.html

- – Yuri Kruman

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What Is It About 20-Somethings? – NYTimes.com

ReturnsAndExchanges — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:43:40 +0000

What makes our generation so growth-retarded, compared to baby boomers? Too many choices and nothing to choose from? Why the lack of a sense of urgency? What, we suddenly live forever? It’s really troubling, our exhibitionist voyeurism and self-centeredness, together with eternal optimism and lack of accountability. Sure, our brains may still be maturing and [...]

Афиша – Культура – Центральный Еврейский Ресурс. Сайт русскоязычных евреев всего мира. Еврейские новости. Еврейские фамилии.

ReturnsAndExchanges — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:08:55 +0000

(h/t: Mom) about Polansky’s uncanny participation in several pivotal events of the 20th century, and what makes his films so powerfully latent in the mind… [hope you can read Russian ;]

http://www.sem40.ru/culture/afisha/24166/

- – Yuri Kruman

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