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…ng that the Turks are not getting enough scrutiny. There is, in Epstein’s dining room, always an alternative version of world events— “perception versus reality,” says Epstein, “not to imply that one necessarily has greater weight than the other.” “Why,” I ask Weingarten, when E...

…privilege had stoked increasing resentment among Israel’s disadvantaged Sephardi majority, with their roots in the Arab world and especially north Africa. Begin not only sensed this. While he’d never lost the formal bearing — or the accent — from his childhood in Poland, his lon...

…all three elements at once your time as a virus particle on this planet is over. Most problems we have to solve in this world require more than one simultaneous logical step and these don't happen by chance. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015849

…ike movement or reproduction,” yet they produce “species,” and cells “can even reproduce, just as life does in the real world.” °° Just as life does? Artists know the blandishments of simulation and representation, the difference between the genius of artifice and the realities...

…igent, more damn-the-consequences man prevails was central to Trump’s own personal mythology. He lived in a mano a mano world, one in which if your own respectability and sense of personal dignity were not a paramount issue—if you weren’t weak in the sense of needing to seem like...

…t Esquire magazine (ellipses represent passage of time between entries) IT BEGAN a month ago. I was midway through The World Is Flat, the bestseller by Tom Friedman. I like Friedman, despite his puzzling decision to wear a mustache. His book is all about how outsourcing to India...

…illating between explicitly and implicitly recognizing Israel. Hamas realizes that recognizing Israel would open up the world’s doors to the movement. At the same time, Hamas knows that such a move would be seen as a betrayal by the movement’s supporters, both inside and outside...

…led in a memoir: “We switched everything off and went home. That night, there was very little doubt in my mind that the world was headed for grief.” e It’s too soon to worry about it. The right time to worry about a potentially serious problem for humanity depends not just on wh...

… in Palestine, and were also solid Ben-Gurion Labor supporters. Her father had fought in the British army in the Second World War. He now ran the branch of Bank Leumi in Tiberias. Her mother ran a shop in what was then the city’s best hotel, the Ginton. 103 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_01157...

…itive for 7am to vote to LEAVE the EU after years of waiting | 09:47-CEST | of the (use a pen) #Brexit #iVoted httpa€ | world wendyekna_ | RT @Multi_Ling Mat: Hold your tongues: why 23 Jun 2016, 5 | negative pp #language learners fear a vote for #Brexit 09:47 - CEST https://t.co/...

… most impressive tool I’ve found in the last year, introduced to me by some of the most productive technologists in the world. Evernote has eliminated more than 90% of the paper in my life and eliminated nearly all of the multiple tabs I used to leave open in web browsers, both o...

…challenges Israel faces, from the minor (for now) to the major. ¢ Israel is far from being a leaf in the wind. But the world has no geopolitical center of gravity — not the US, Russia, Europe or China —Israel isn't omnipotent either. ¢ Itis wrong to disregard what's happening...

…d that the relationship was weakened (or could turn negative) when she increased the length of the growth spells. And a World Bank study later found that the positive effect on growth was almost exclusively reserved for the top end of the income distribution (56). Income inequa...

…conspiracy is not a rare phenomenon. Not only was a foreign conspiracy responsible for the monstrous 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center (as well as the previous attempt to blow it up in 1993) but, according to the Center on Law and Security at Fordham University, over 90% of r...

…l Alexander closely followed the investigation as it devel- oped over the summer of 2013. By then, of course, the whole world knew that Snowden had stolen a vast trove of NSA documents. Alexander saw major inconsistencies developing between Snowden’s personal account of the theft...