Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
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Saturday, June 25, 2011
Distrust of Government Hampers Austerity Drive in Greece - NYTimes.com
These sort of issues may prove to be more important than anything one learns in an economics class.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Greece and Foreign Lenders Agree on Austerity Plan - NYTimes.com
How about the Greek people? Have they "agreed"?
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
L’Expédition M.E.D, Méditerranée en Danger : une aventure scientifique, humaine et écologique.
How nnice to find the URL for this on the television screen with France3's evening news tonight! It is so rare that customers are helped in this way by media companies of all kinds.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
'The Transporter' TV series gets its star: Chris Vance | Inside TV | EW.com
Filming this week in Nice.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
The Quiet Corner of the Mideast (Surprise) - NYTimes.com
Seeing this headline reminds me of something I have been thinking but not articulating for a long time. Why is it that a region of the world so historically interconnected as is the Meditteranean winds up either being divided in half (Europe and the Other), subsumed within areas called variously EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Asia), or split three ways among Europe, North Africa and the Middle East?
The answer, it increasingly seems to me, is a combination of fear and prejudice.As bad off as the financial picture has been in Greece, Portugal and other southern European countries, they are never referred to by anything other than Europe. What if we started referring in a headling like this to the "Quiet Corner" of the Mediterranean? Think for a moment why that seems odd. Palestine is as much a part of the Mediterranean as it is a part of the Mideast, no? So why do we choose one over the other? Imagine the mental shift that would occur. It's as though we started calling the Confederacy in North America simply part of the United States again?
The answer, it increasingly seems to me, is a combination of fear and prejudice.As bad off as the financial picture has been in Greece, Portugal and other southern European countries, they are never referred to by anything other than Europe. What if we started referring in a headling like this to the "Quiet Corner" of the Mediterranean? Think for a moment why that seems odd. Palestine is as much a part of the Mediterranean as it is a part of the Mideast, no? So why do we choose one over the other? Imagine the mental shift that would occur. It's as though we started calling the Confederacy in North America simply part of the United States again?
Friday, June 10, 2011
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Monday, June 06, 2011
Saturday, June 04, 2011
Friday, June 03, 2011
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
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