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Charles Glass is a journalist, author, and publisher who has frequently reported from the Middle East. His most recent book is Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation (Penguin). His feature “The Warrior Class: A golden age for the freelance soldier” ($) appears in the April 2012 issue of Harper’s Magazine The week of March 20 was supposed to have been Afghanistan’s first without private-security companies on its soil since the American invasion of 2001.
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London Review of Books
5 April 2012 5 April 2012 4 April 2012 Adam Shatz The life of Claude Lanzmann, Claude Lanzmann declares at the beginning of his memoir, has been ‘a rich, multifaceted and unique story’. Self-flattery is characteristically Lanzmannian, but its truth in this case can hardly be denied.
NewStatesman There are challenges to the 0.7 per cent aid target, but the debate should be wider than a number, says Dr Alison Evans newstatesman.com/blogs/the-stag… yesterday · reply · retweet · favorite
New Statesman
FEW OF US HAVE THE TIME to read one newspaper from cover to cover, let alone the hundreds of newspapers and magazines published in the UK and overseas every week. Britain's daily and Sunday newspapers contain a staggering 5,800 pages. Almost ten million words . Each week. The Week is a unique digest which distils the best of the British and foreign press into just 35 succinct pages - ideal for today's busy lifestyle. What's more, The Week is a joy to read, keeping you entertained as well as informed.
The Week
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Deere, Disney, Hewlett-Packard, Qualcom and many others are also under investigation for violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Job-hunters getting back on track is encouraging, but it's likely to bump up the unemployment rate. And that could give Mitt Romney some much-needed ammo as the election gets closer. It may be tempting in certain foreign markets to float a little money to key players in order to get business, but studies show it often doesn't pay off in the long run -- even if you don't get caught.
First Monday
With Twitter and Facebook blocked in China, the stream of information from Chinese domestic social media provides a case study of social media behavior under the influence of active censorship. In a statistical analysis of 56 million messages (212,583 of which have been deleted out of 1.3 million checked, more than 16 percent) from the domestic Chinese microblog site Sina Weibo, and 11 million Chinese–language messages from Twitter, this paper uncovers a set a politically sensitive terms whose presence in a message leads to anomalously higher rates of deletion. The rate of message deletion is not uniform throughout the country, with messages originating in the outlying provinces of Tibet and Qinghai exhibiting much higher deletion rates than those from eastern areas like Beijing. This paper examines an emerging art of self–fashioning and sociality in Japanese–language virtual communication. The structure and experience of Japanese virtual communication are acts of opacity.
Isn’t it delightful how geek culture works? During my Christmas shopping last year, I stumbled into a favorite little pop culture shop in Little Collins Street in Melbourne which is well known for its comprehensive stocking of all things Lovecraftian. I was looking for some stocking fillers for the kids; instead I walked out with [...]
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Unseen Shots From 1965 Vietnam Legendary Newsweek Saigon bureau chief Francois Sully shot hundreds of photographs of combat, street scenes, and military life in the field.
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There is a landscape of murk and junk, dark water and black mud, trash and detritus and debris, desolate woods, rickety bridges over ugly rivers, rust and barbed wire, that lurks under a lot of Joyce Carol Oates’s writing. It’s a landscape where human beings can barely survive and that they have to struggle out of, but it’s always there, waiting to suck you down and back. It’s a good location for a creepy Gothic writer like Oates, who loves dank basements, the slimy grasp of the unconscious, horrors in the night.