DougSaunders
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Headline of the day: "Rabbi took kosher food to five-day coke binge" (nice interfaith-peace subtext) (tks @)
about 3 hours ago
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@ Sounds like a pretty advanced English class! You're somewhere around Dusseldorf if I read your coords correctly...
about 6 hours ago
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@ Good idea - he's definitely media friendly!
about 6 hours ago
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Request for contact: Can anyone name a big-picture comparative-religion scholar who can talk Pentacostalism v. Islam in Africa & elsewhere?
about 7 hours ago
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@ Or a chopstick, I guess.
about 7 hours ago
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@ They love those titles in China, too, translations sell as "how to " textbooks. "We'll eat their young, it says...get me a fork!"
about 7 hours ago
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Oh yeah, this is going to make everyone in Germany love McDonalds:
about 7 hours ago
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@ Of course, China & some other Asian places have mirror-image scholars who reify "the West," claim liberalism's an import etc
about 7 hours ago
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@ Yes, in UK the same thing being said by Martin Jacques - - culture too often seen as cause rather than symptom
about 7 hours ago
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I would like to thank the NYT for having David Brooks provide the most explicit example ever of the culturalist fallacy
about 7 hours ago
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@ Correction: "Asians place emphasis on context/Westerners on individuals" is the most explicit I've ever seen
about 7 hours ago
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@ Hmm, Brooks' "different cultures & groups have different styles of thinking" is most explicit statement of that fallacy I've seen
about 7 hours ago
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@ The one-star reviews are some of the better ones.
about 20 hours ago
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Worst product of the year award
about 20 hours ago
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@ I don't think you were actually allowed to *touch* on Soul Train. Which had its effect on dance steps.
about 20 hours ago
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I really wish I were doing the Breakdown
about 21 hours ago
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Late Sunday night editing, abetted by Rufus T - - I am so doing the Push & Pull
about 21 hours ago
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It was North by Northwest here last night. Boy, is Don Draper ever a wholesale physical + behavioural copy of Cary Grant's character.
about 22 hours ago
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At the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, here's TE Lawrence's battle kit -- speaking of colonial plunder.
9:34 AM Nov 22nd
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Enjoying colonial plunder at Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. (The shrunken heads etc make it smell like old Tube station)
6:35 AM Nov 22nd
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- Name Doug Saunders
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- Bio European Bureau Chief, The Globe and Mail - - Canada's National Newspaper
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