Sunday, August 17, 2008

Parenting Advice from Economists

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Winning is Everything Winning isn't Everything ; Joshua Gans is 'over the moon' because his daughter won a sports event. With so...

The King of Bollywood in New York

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There is no American equivalent to this spectacle, in which actors, joined by dozens of dancers, recreate musical numbers from popular movie...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Assorted Olympics

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China 2008 olympic medal tally by population Olympics at Sports-Reference.com The Glory of Just Showing Up
Friday, August 15, 2008

IT Age and narrowing of science?

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Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship James A. Evans Online journals promise to serve more information to more...

The Miseducation of Robert S. McNamara

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He was a brilliant student at the University of California and at Harvard Business School, where he became a member of the HBS faculty. McNa...

Tropic Thunder

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Good luck

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Lugo 'to end' Paraguay corruption

I've been warning the world- Saakashvili

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Russia: Georgia will lose South Ossetia
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Podcast of the Day

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Nassim Taleb Says Crisis Continues Until Banks' Management Changes

Nuke, Kooks and Democracy in Iran

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Abbas Milani' s talk will be "Nuke, Kooks and Democracy in Iran: a discussion of Iran's current political situation, and the pr...

Job description for a Goddess

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Despite being revered as a powerful Hindu divinity, the Himalayan state's Royal Kumari has no option but to step down once she reaches p...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

The Night of the Gun

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Me and My Girls

The Gift of Time

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The Gift of Time-Letters from a Father By Jorge Ramos

Blaming Monica Goodling

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Poverty Measurement

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a sensible way to measure poverty?

Top Reformer goes at it again

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Moments after President Bush appeared at the Rose Garden to say that the Pentagon would begin a humanitarian aid mission to support Georgia,...

Economics … by John McCain

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Podcasts

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The great grammar debate Is learning formal grammar essential to becoming a good writer and communicator? Or is it more important to develop...

South Korea’s Cram Schools

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“Min-ju, do your best! Fighting!” Mr. Chung shouted as his daughter disappeared into the building. Min-ju turned around and raised a clenche...

Mahmoud Darwis' Legacy

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Parenting advice from Michael Phelps' Mother

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As he entered public school, he displayed what his teachers called “immature” behavior. “In kindergarten I was told by his teacher, ‘Michael...
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Assorted on Iran

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Bueno de Mesquita on Iran and Threats to U.S. Security ; Ahmadinejad is the President of Iran, but virtually all power there is held by the ...

Incredible America

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The census calculates that by 2042, Americans who identify themselves as Hispanic, black, Asian, American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Pacif...
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Assorted Economic Podcasts

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Allan Meltzer Says Fed Failing to Control Inflation Harvard's Feldstein Says Fed Slow to Recognize Credit Crisis James Poterba Says U.S...

What Would Nixon Do on U.S.-Cuba Relations?

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Related; Nixon Center

More on Georgia

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Professor Padma Desai and Nina Kruscheva Russia Blog Readers Comment on Conflict
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Next Big Thing on the Web?

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Fire Eagle Related; Yahoo Unveils Platform for Location-Based Services

Force feeding little girls

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A deeply disturbing habit from Mauritania; Big is often regarded as beautiful in Mauritania, but the controversial act of force-feeding is ...
Monday, August 11, 2008

Assorted

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Why Are Exchange Rates So Difficult to Predict? Building a Better World: Infrastructure's Role in Economic Growth Clearing the Roadways:...

World Free of Poverty on Vacation

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World Bank's Poverty and Growth blog goes on vacation.

Photo of the Day

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via Boing Boing - Pieter Hugo's Nollywood Series Related; Nigerian films are so successful that the government wants to get involved ; T...

Free Reads

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Looking Backward and Forward: Policy Issues in the Twenty-first Century Author: Charles Wolf Jr. Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the ...

George Washington on Leadership

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Richard Brookhiser

Explainer of the Day

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Gasoline prices

Was the Top Reformer stupid?

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Interesting observations on the Russia and Georgia war from Belgravia Dispatch ; Which brings me to a fifth point, and perhaps a more proxim...

Germans and Poles start a fight

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Nudist war on the German-Polish border!

Georgia the Model?

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World Bank's Doing Business blog seems to have more posts on Georgia than any other country. For example; Top Reformer Wins Election in...

Assorted on Russia and Georgia

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American officials and a military officer who have dealt with Georgia said privately that as a result, the war risked becoming a foreign pol...

Assorted

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A Tale of Two Charts More Reasons Not To Take The Candidates' Budget Proposals Too Seriously Make Diplomacy, Not War Anne-Marie Slaughte...

Podcast of the Week

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Bueno de Mesquita on Iran and Threats to U.S. Security Deterrence. Fashionable at the moment for people to think the Israelis will take out ...
Sunday, August 10, 2008

Turkey Fact of the Day

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Turkey's gender gap in years of schooling (of women relative to men) has also been consistently lower than other Muslim countries. via I...

Obama Fact of the Day

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His favorite Harry Potter character may be Dumbledore (he won’t comment when it’s mentioned that the headmaster of Hogwarts may be gay.) He ...

Personal Productivity Links of the Day

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Five Best To-Do List Managers Team Effectiveness MindMap Templates

The Teen Brain

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Dictators and binding revolution constraints

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The dictator’s approach to electoral patterns ; Democracies rarely repress their own citizens but authoritarian and totalitarian regimes do....

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet

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this poet--was put under house arrest by the Israeli military occupation for close to a decade and only because he wrote poetry that offend...

Your Next Vacation Destination

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Make it Bolivia
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Saturday, August 9, 2008

Blast from the Past

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Northwoods Memo via Angry Bear

Macro Podcasts

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Former Director Reinhart Says U.S. Asking Too Much of Fed Parry Says Fed Is Facing `Serious' Policy Challenges Related; With Fannie and ...

The Iraq Surplus

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In Iraq, Far From a Deficit Related Report; Stabilizing and Rebuilding Iraq: Iraqi Revenues, Expenditures, and Surplus ; Iraq has an estimat...