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Related News ItemsA year-end look at Malaysia from afarSun, 05 Feb 2012 05:15:15 -0800
Half a century after independence, Malaysians remain clueless as to who and what they are, and remain as distant as ever from that once cherished ideal of a Malaysian nation for all Malaysians, observes Farish Noor. I began my academic career more than a decade ago — and I can wryly state, with a smirk [...]
Read More... Hubbard Film Society will Present Screening of 'Potiche'Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:22:40 -0800
The Hubbard Film Society will host screenings of the film "Potiche" at the Aurora Theatre on Sat., Feb. 4 at 11 a.m. and on Wed., Feb. 8 at 4 p.m. Dinner and conversation about the film will take place at The Roycroft Inn following the Wednesday screening.
Read More... Putin promises Russians bigger say in politicsMon, 06 Feb 2012 00:04:56 -0800
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is running for a third term as president, on Monday promised Russians a bigger say in politics amid the growing public discontent with his dominance of power.
Read More... Shaken by rallies, Putin says Russian society maturingThu, 02 Feb 2012 19:12:49 -0800
Ed Miliband calls for a culture of "one nation banking" in which financial institutions are not "isolated&q
Read More... India’s Top Newspapers Battle for Readers’ Hearts and Souls: ChoudhurySun, 05 Feb 2012 04:14:53 -0800
The Times of India and The Hindu are the two best-known English newspapers in India. Both are well over 100 years old, and are family-owned. Over the decades their gaze on Indian society and politics has made readers impute to each of them a kind of human aura, identified with the cities from which they are published.
Read More... Obama’s SOTU, authoritarian followership, and civil society: Part IIMon, 06 Feb 2012 11:41:42 -0800
lambert strether is an old school blogger from Corrente . Last week in Part I of this piece , I argued that Obama's recent State of The Union speech endorsed a particular model of military organization named the "warrior ethos" by its DOD developers, and that this ethos and American soldier's oath of enlistment ( 10 U.S.C. § 502 ) were in contradiction. That is, one can treat the "mission" and ...
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