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UNAMID Helps Promotes Peace And Development Though Sports And Culture
Under the theme “Together for Peace and Development in Darfur,” UNAMID supported the Al Taylia Sports Club in celebrating the Club’s Golden Jubilee this past weekend in El Fasher, North Darfur.
Contemporary Coriolanus
Given that I spend almost no time at the movies any more, I have to confess that I was drawn to reading reviews of Coriolanus, the directorial debut of Ralph Fiennes, who also plays the leading role. Much has been made of how Shakespeare’s conception...
Redirecting the Attacks on Apple
This morning Larry Dignan used a post to the Between the Lines blog on ZDNet to give “equal time” to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, in the face of the beating that Apple has been taking from two extended reports in The New York Times by Charles Duhigg,...
The Dramatic Category of a Margaret Thatcher Biography
There is a telling sentence near the beginning of Martin Filler’s NYRblog post about Meryl Streep’s performance of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady that is likely to frame the attitude of those of us who still enjoy the study of history. After...
What are Emotion Expressions For?
That cartoon scary face – wide eyes, ready to run – may have helped our primate ancestors survive in a dangerous wild, according to the authors of an article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for...
Steve Jobs Without the Hagiography
I was wondering whether or not The New York Review of Books would select Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs for consideration and, if so, whom would be assigned the task. The answer can be found in the latest issue (January 12), in which Sue Halpern is...
The Mainstream Media have Always been with Us
I suspect that most TEA Party advocates have a knee-jerk reaction to San Francisco as a hotbed of destructive liberalism (which is to say socialism undermining “the American way” of life). However, this being a culture that prides itself on its...
Burkina Faso And Cote D’Ivoire Sign Four Conventions of Cooperation
Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire have signed four conventions of cooperation especially in the fields of culture, tourism and transport, APA reported on Friday.
