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The Saturday miscellany: Feminist classics; Anna Wintour; Clerkenwell Design Week; Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing; Louis Vuitton
Date :: Japan | 1 day ago
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Feminist classics The Bell Jar vs The Golden Sylvia Plath's slim, single novel The Bell Jar was highly autobiographical, telling the story of an intelligent college graduate who suffers a mental breakdown, and feels stifled by the limited options for
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Brewhaha in Greece as MPs ejected for "Heil Hitler" cries
Date :: Japan | 2 days ago
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An MP for the ultra-right Golden Dawn party, Panayiotis Iliopoulos, was ejected from a session in Parliament on Friday after the deputy used derogatory language to revile fellow MPs and cries of "Heil Hitler" were heard in the House. Originally
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$A falls as Japanese traders sell
Date :: Japan | 2 days ago
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On Friday morning, the Australian currency dropped as low as 97.53 US cents, its weakest level since June 2012. Friday, the local unit recovered a little to 97.62 US cents, down from 98.37 cents on Thursday. The Australian dollar also went below 100
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Victor Davis Hanson: Obama's Second-Term Embarrassments
Date :: Japan | 3 days ago
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His new book, The Savior Generals , will appear later this month from Bloomsbury Press. ...As the congressional hearings on Benghazi were taking place
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Unlikely interracial WWII romance
Date :: Japan | 3 days ago
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NYT (5-15-13) The nurse and the soldier may never have met and eventually married had it not been for the American government's mistreatment of black women during World War II. Elinor Elizabeth Powell was an African-American military nurse...It was a
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Martin Waldseemuller's secret knowledge
Date :: Japan | 3 days ago
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We need to talk about cartography more often here on the A-blog. Let's just admit it: Most of us could easily spend an entire evening studying maps. And I don't mean Rand McNally road atlases, though those are great, too. I mean old maps, obscure
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Robert E. Wright: How Nonprofits Became Tax-Exempt
Date :: Japan | 3 days ago
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Wright is the Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana College in South Dakota and the author of Corporation Nation, which will be published in December by the University of Pennsylvania Press. The uproar over allegations of politically
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Conrad Black: No Impeachment on Benghazi
Date :: Japan | 3 days ago
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Two important points need to be made about the lamentable Benghazi affair. The first is that this is no time to start reaching for the self-firing, almost untargeted impeachment six-guns. Ever since Watergate, the joys of criminalizing policy
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Amy Reading: How a Texas Paper Brought Down Billie Sol Estes
Date :: Japan | 3 days ago
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A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge and a Small History of the Big Con, recently published in paperback by Vintage. Billie Sol Estes, the Texan con man whose exploits rattled the administrations of Presidents John F.
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Seth Rosenfeld: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of UC
Date :: Japan | 3 days ago
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The FBI 's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power," which received the 2013 Ridenhour Book Prize. Once upon a time, the University of California was a sacred trust, the top tier of a model educational system that helped lift the state to
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