Monday
Tea with Stalin’s Daughter « LRB blog
Image via WikipediaI should have addressed the envelope to ‘Lana Peters’ at 280 Ladbroke Grove, but I didn’t,
and the package I sent out from the London Review’s offices in the spring of 1992 was instead addressed to Svetlana Allilueva.
Several days later, I heard that she was angry I’d used her better-known name.
Worse, a story then appeared in the Evening Standard, which said that Stalin’s daughter was living in a halfway house in Notting Hill.
Had I helped blow her cover? I apologised. She asked me to tea.
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Sunday
Saturday
Frank Delaney: Archives
Image via Wikipedia"RE: JOYCE
a podcast on james joyce's ulysses"
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Sunday
Art Beat | PBS NewsHour | PBS
Wednesday
MPL Book Trailer #78: The 13 Clocks, by James Thurber - YouTube
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Saturday
Dan Dennett: Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes - YouTube
Dan Dennett: Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes - YouTube: "http://www.ted.com Starting with the simple tale of an ant, philosopher Dan Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of memes -- concepts that are literally alive."
Noam Chomsky on Occupy Wall Street protests - YouTube
Noam Chomsky on Occupy Wall Street protests - YouTube: "Noam Chomsky on Occupy Wall Street protests"
Monday
Saturday
The Associated Press: Cruise ship docks in Boston with 2 dead passengers
The Associated Press: Cruise ship docks in Boston with 2 dead passengers:
"Cruise ship docks in Boston with 2 dead passengers"
A spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney says the probe involving experts from the office of the chief examiner showed a 67-year-old woman from Tiverton, R.I., and a 23-year-old man from Littleton, N.H., were not murdered aboard the Norwegian Cruise Line ship.
this blurb got me to thinking isn't this how a vampire movie begins?
better yet, the tale of a plague?
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"Cruise ship docks in Boston with 2 dead passengers"
A spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney says the probe involving experts from the office of the chief examiner showed a 67-year-old woman from Tiverton, R.I., and a 23-year-old man from Littleton, N.H., were not murdered aboard the Norwegian Cruise Line ship.
this blurb got me to thinking isn't this how a vampire movie begins?
better yet, the tale of a plague?
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Tuesday
O-Bits Blog
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Saturday
The Teacher Salary Project
Image via WikipediaOur educational system must change. Currently, 30 percent of American students drop out of school by age eighteen. Fewer than 30 percent of all eighth-grade students are proficient in grade-level reading and math. Most significantly, students from urban, financially disadvantaged backgrounds are at a greater risk for decreased cognitive development and ability, lower school attendance, and higher rates of grade failure and early drop-out. And though it is well documented that the most important school-based factor in students' academic achievement and future success is the quality of their teachers, 46 percent of public school teachers leave the profession within the first five years of being in the classroom. A good teacher has the power to change the course of a life—yet because teachers in the United States have historically had an average annual salary lower than their peers with similar educational backgrounds, 62 percent of our nation's teachers must have second jobs outside of the classroom-like tutoring, mowing lawns, selling stereos, or bartending—to be able to afford to teach.
Weaving interviews of policy experts and startling facts with the lives and careers of four teachers, our film, American Teacher, tells the collective story by and about those closest to the issues in our educational system—the 3.2 million teachers who spend every day in classrooms across the country. Through an interactive and evolving website and a feature-length documentary that brings together educational experts, student interviews, and a year of documenting the day-to-day lives and sacrifices of public school teachers, THE TEACHER SALARY PROJECT will bring an awareness to the real and imminent crisis in our educational system—how little we value our strongest, most committed, and most effective teachers, and the ripple effect this has on how our children learn and their potential for future success.
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Thursday
Poetry Pairing | The Beautiful and the Bad - NYTimes.com
Poetry Pairing | The Beautiful and the Bad - NYTimes.com: "Pity the Beautiful
By Dana Gioia
Pity the beautiful,
the dolls, and the dishes,
the babes with big daddies
granting their wishes.
Pity the pretty boys,
the hunks, and Apollos,
the golden lads whom
success always follows.
The hotties, the knock-outs,
the tens out of ten,
the drop-dead gorgeous,
the great leading men.
Pity the faded,
the bloated, the blowsy,
the paunchy Adonis
whose luck’s gone lousy.
Pity the gods,
no longer divine.
Pity the night
the stars lose their shine."
'via Blog this'
By Dana Gioia
Pity the beautiful,
the dolls, and the dishes,
the babes with big daddies
granting their wishes.
Pity the pretty boys,
the hunks, and Apollos,
the golden lads whom
success always follows.
The hotties, the knock-outs,
the tens out of ten,
the drop-dead gorgeous,
the great leading men.
Pity the faded,
the bloated, the blowsy,
the paunchy Adonis
whose luck’s gone lousy.
Pity the gods,
no longer divine.
Pity the night
the stars lose their shine."
'via Blog this'
Sunday
. . . at the mercy of the world
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"However much I am at the mercy of the world I never let myself get lost by brooding over its misery. I hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of that misery to an end."
~~ Albert Schweitzer
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Thursday
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