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Jimmy Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech

2009-08-03 04:37:00 查看原文

On July 15 1979, Jimmy Carter delivered a national speech, Crisis of Confidence, to address the critical energy issue in US. “Mr. Carter’s sense of our own accountability, his warnings about the debilitating ...

Why being outrageous is good?

2009-07-16 12:30:00 查看原文

I was struggling with all the unfamiliar terminologies such as misogyny and arachnophobia when a line in Tim Kreider’s article Isn’t It Outrageous stroke me: “If you’re anything like me, you spend about 87 ...

[纽约时报]A Journalist's 'Actual Responsibility'

2009-07-07 13:35:00 查看原文

July 6, 2009 A Journalist's 'Actual Responsibility' By ROGER COHEN NEW YORK — Shortly after World War I, the great German sociologist Max Weber gave a lecture in Munich in which he turned his mind to...

幽闭三小时

2009-06-18 10:20:00 查看原文

这一切说出来有点像村上的短篇小说，尤其在他的《奇鸟形状录》里面还曾经出现过类似的独自一人呆在幽闭空间的情节。只不过可怜的渡边是半自愿地展开精神探索之旅，而我这个经历则是完全意料之外的诡异事件。我昨天晚上...

Let's buy a dam to fight cigarettes

2009-06-12 14:11:00 查看原文

The Economist Intelligence Unit’s democracy index is published biannually since 2006. It has released its 2nd edition reflecting the situation as of late 2008. The analysis is based on five categories: ele...

Where to buy your computer in future?

2009-06-09 16:24:00 查看原文

M forwarded today’s Wall Street Journal article to me this afternoon. I knew exactly he would do so the moment I read the piece this morning. He wrote, “It’s not going in the right direction.” I agreed. Thi...

About Obama's Cairo Speech

2009-06-09 15:53:00 查看原文

President Obama delivered a rhetoric speech at Cairo University a couple of days ago. THE speech was enthusiastically anticipated by his supporters at home and abroad. He did a decent job but the expectation ha...