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One thing I love about Israel is the sheer amount of history you can run into in the course of a day, assuming you bother to talk to anyone. I have lots of friends here, so I talk to way more people than I usually do when travelling. I’m on the phone with my friend … Continue reading Israeli history
I thought the blogosphere could do without me for a day or so… So we had lunch with our friend Albert and went to a show of Elizabeth Nourse‘s works. She was from Cincinnati, born just before the Civil War started. Impressionist, close friend of Mary Cassatt. She died in the early 1930’s, I think… … Continue reading Saturday
sisu: “I’m withering in my scorn,” admits Geldof: “‘The Live 8 phenomenon is part of this Western fantasy of omnipotence,’ [writer and authority on humanitarian aid David ] Rieff continued in a telephone interview, ‘a politically correct version of the imperial impulse to give some money and all will be well, as if the problems … Continue reading Live8 imperialism?
World news from The Times and the Sunday Times – Times Online Childishly inappropriate behaviour has infected Japan’s political elite, as Junichiro Koizumi, the Prime Minister, revealed when he lectured a group of young MPs last year. “Don’t send e-mails on your cell phones or read comic books in parliament while in session,” he told … Continue reading World news from The Times and the Sunday Times – Times Online
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