Archive for October, 2005
Tuesday October 11th 2005, 2:19 pm
Man arrested for criticising China in Yahoo email — Yahoo
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Look back to 2004, when reporters at a Hunan province newspaper listened as their editorial director read a statement from the Communist Party’s Propaganda Department about the upcoming 15-year commemoration of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It warned that dissidents may use the Internet to spread “damaging […]
Tuesday October 11th 2005, 2:08 pm
Coming From Philip Roth: Regret and Loss - New York Times
Philip Roth’s next novel, “Everyman,” will be published in May by Houghton Mifflin, the company announced yesterday. Janet Silver, the publisher of the Houghton Mifflin division that will publish the book, called it “an elegant and deeply moving story of regret and loss in the […]
Thursday October 06th 2005, 6:41 pm
Text of Gore Speech at Media Conference
Or, why Al Gore is still important. Read it now.
How many of you, I wonder, have heard a friend or a family member in the last few years remark that it’s almost as if America has entered “an alternate universe”?
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And here is my point: it is the destruction […]
Monday October 03rd 2005, 2:34 pm
God bad for society:
Societies worse off ‘when they have God on their side’ - Britain - Times Online
Via Warren Ellis
Subjects: news
Monday October 03rd 2005, 2:27 pm
Guardian Unlimited Books | The digested read | John Crace’s digested read: The Game by Neil Strauss
HA HA HA HA
Via Blog of a Blookslut
Subjects: publishing
Sunday October 02nd 2005, 1:49 pm
Quoth Richard Rorty:
The principal vice of the community of analytic philosophers is that its members do not read much outside of analytic philosophy. Graduate study in philosophy in most American philosophy departments is largely a matter of going over the publications of the last ten or twenty years in order to get the background necessary […]
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