Friday, January 10, 2014

NYT Review: In “Words Will Break Cement,” Masha Gessen explores the impact of the Russian musical activist group Pussy Riot.

ArtsBeat: Gary Shteyngart Offers Some Jokes, Some Self-Analysis 

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Mr. Shteyngart was at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn on Wednesday to promote his new memoir, “Little Failure.”






Books of The Times: Masha Gessen’s ‘Words Will Break Cement’ 

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In “Words Will Break Cement,” Masha Gessen explores the impact of the Russian musical activist group Pussy Riot.

Coordinates: Designing the Next Wave of Computer Chips

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Scientists are looking for new ways to make computer chips and investigating materials that can self-assemble.






Movie Review: ‘In Bloom,’ on Two Young Girls Growing Up in Tbilisi 

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“In Bloom,” Georgia’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, tracks the lives of two girls in Tbilisi in 1992, during the newly independent country’s civil war.

Op-Ed Columnist: The War Over Poverty 

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On its 50th birthday, the movement to aid the poor has a lot of progress to celebrate.
    






More U.S. Economists See Half-Full Glass

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A smaller trade deficit, increased consumer spending and a surging stock market contributed to a revised outlook for United States growth.
    
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Obama Seeks Balance in Plan for Spy Programs

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President Obama is trying to navigate what advisers call a middle course that will satisfy protesting national security agencies while tamping down criticism by civil liberties advocates.
    

After Being Indicted, Diplomat Is Allowed to Leave the Country

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Devyani Khobragade, an Indian diplomat, was indicted on charges of visa fraud and making false statements in connection with her treatment of a domestic worker.
    

Santiago Journal: A Chilean Dictator’s Secret Book Collection: Heavy on Napoleon, Light on Fiction 

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General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, known for his brutal 17-year rule, amassed about 50,000 volumes for his private library, using public money.
    






Movie Review: Bruce Ramsay Condenses ‘Hamlet’

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Bruce Ramsay’s “Hamlet” is set in an upper-class, buttoned-down home in postwar London.






National Briefing | Midwest: Indiana: Measure Seeks to Put Gay-Marriage Ban in Constitution 

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A House Republican has introduced a measure to put Indiana’s ban on gay marriage in the state Constitution.
    






Bits Blog: Gmail Plans to Allow Google Plus Users to Send Anyone an Email 

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A change to Gmail that would allow people to use Google Plus to send emails even if they do not know the recipient’s email address provoked criticism from people who said they did not want their inboxes accessible by default.
    






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Increasing Nuclear Security 

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An approaching nuclear summit meeting can do more to keep the world safe.

Indian Diplomat Flies Home After Indictment in U.S.

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Devyani Khobragade’s return to India represented a possible resolution of a case that has harmed U.S. ties with New Delhi.

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Opinions Review | Ruth Marcus: Snowden, the insufferable whistleblower - The Washington Post

Ruth Marcus: Snowden, the insufferable whistleblower - The Washington Post 


Time has not deflated Edward Snowden’s messianic sense of self-importance. Nor has living in an actual police state given the National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower any greater appreciation of the actual freedoms that Americans enjoy.
Insufferable is the first adjective evoked by Snowden’s recent interview with Barton Gellman in The Post, but it has numerous cousins: smug, self-righteous, egotistical, disingenuous, megalomaniacal, overwrought. 

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Happy New Year, my friends!

Happy New Year, my friends! ¡Felicidades! 
May this New Year of 2014 bring to all of us peace in the World and in our hearts, wisdom, love, happiness, luck, prosperity and all other parts of this package. I was glad to see all of you today, it is good to be with you! I hope that at least some of our plans will come true in this upcoming New Year and I know that all of us will work hard on this. We will soldier on.