Endangered Spaces - An FP Slide Show
The area known today as Syria is one of the longest-inhabited parts of the globe. Since it was first settled between 2,500 and 2,400 BC, the region ...
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Alexander the Great, Paul A. Cartledge, Peter...
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New York Review of Books
Cannes, Day 1: Decadent, drunk and sad. And that’s just the opening night film
CANNES, France — “The glamour, the romance, the drunkenness, the decadence, and underlying that, a deep sadness.” Yes, the Cannes film festival ...
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Appreciating teachers (for a change)
This is Teacher Appreciation Week (so declared by the National Education Association), a fine moment to say something nice to or about teachers, who ...
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The great Gatsby gamble
THE Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic 1925 novel, captured the decadence and grandiose hedonism of the outrageously wealthy in the Roaring ...
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Preparing for B-Day and hoping that the other bastard dies
The embattled Gillard government's battalions of media advisors, facing a tough budget and an even more difficult election campaign, are being put on ...
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South Africa is a great country because...
...The company that supplies electricity pleads every night on national TV for people not to use their product.
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Treasures saved from civil war in Afghanistan
Afghan cultural treasures saved from the devastations of war by courageous museum workers are on show at the Melbourne Museum, with academic ...
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Alexander the Great
A National Short Story Month reading list from Oxford World’s Classics
In this month’s Oxford World’s Classics reading list, we decided to celebrate National Short Story Month by selecting some of favourite story ...
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Viral Gen. James 'Mad Dog' Mattis Email About Being 'Too Busy To Read' Is ... A Must Read
In the run up to Marine Gen. James Mattis deployment to Iraq in 2004, a colleague (presumably a junior) wrote to him asking about the importance of ...
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