Houston Watching the World Cup in South Africa, reading the stories in the Times from slums outside of Johannesburg, makes me look at the calendar for the countdown to the next huge international sports event: The Commonwealth Games! In October teams from all over the former colonies of the British Empire will be parachuting [...]
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New Orleans A week ago I was in Boston. Knowing I would be in Cambridge at the Harvard Coop, I sent an email to my friend and colleague, Tim Costello, suggesting he come over if he had a minute and visit and pick up a book. The weather was miserably cold and wet, so I [...] New Orleans Using the weekend to catch up on old papers, magazines, and whatever, allowed me to stumble on some head scratchers. Newsweek has a new format in order to try and survive as a news-based magazine in the cutthroat environment of the internet and the 24-hour news cycle. Sometimes they try to stir [...] New Orleans There’s a 10 ½ hour time difference from Mumbai to New Orleans, and to ACORN India Mumbai’s director, Vinod Shetty, it was a surprise when earlier today, a delegation including the consul general himself and political director for Mumbai showed up as part of a delegation that wanted to see what ACORN India’s [...] |
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