January 2011
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Walk Like an American: The Finale (Part 1)
From a while ago…A little snippet from me on James Fallows’ blog：
»One response from a reader, in particular, was so shockingly close to my experience. I was raised on the West Coast, went to Brown, then had a Fulbright to China and subsequently worked as a program manager at a business school in Beijing. I often interacted with EMBAs and executives. The European ones all...
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“You Driver License is here, do you want me to mail to you TODAY? or keep it here...”
– E-mail, titled “Letter,” from Dad
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The Search for General Tso and Colonel MSG →
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U.S. State Department's list of all gifts federal... →
Best list ever.
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[Unfinished] Personal Thoughts on the U.S.... →
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“We had a mission—to liberate the world!—and then, all of a sudden, that bubble...”
– Zhang Jingyan on the modern Chinese predicament, from New Yorker’s “Meet Dr. Freud” by Evan Osnos.
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North Korea’s Dollar Store →
Office 39, North Korea’s billion-dollar crime syndicate, pays for Kim Jong Il’s missiles and cognac. Why did the Bush White House choose not to shut it down?
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The Thing Is
to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body...
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The Conservative Constitution of the United States →
House members opened the 112th Congress on Thursday by reading aloud the Constitution, presumably as a first step toward fulfilling the tea party’s goal of “restoring” our nation’s founding document. However, an alternative constitutional text, obtained by this author via WikiLeaks, has reportedly begun circulating in secret among incoming GOP lawmakers, representing the...
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Florida Professor Arrested for Having a... →
A Florida professor was arrested and removed from a plane Monday after his fellow passengers alerted crew members they thought he had a suspicious package in the overhead compartment. That “suspicious package” turned out to be keys, a bagel with cream cheese and a hat.
h/t newyorker.
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