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		<title>The Two-Cultures Split Revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Naylor, the president of the University of Toronto, said this week that the international Holberg Memorial Prize of $785,000 to the Toronto social historian Natalie Zemon Davis was a “fantastic boost” to the university’s social science, arts and humanities faculties, which in recent years had suffered a decline in funding and support.
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		<title>The Strong and the Weak in Europe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last week or two we received the impression that Germany was about to save Greece from bankruptcy.
If we are to believe yesterday’s STRATFOR analysis, that is now what is going to happen.
STRATFOR’s global team of intelligence professionals provides an audience of decision-makers and sophisticated news consumers in the U.S. and around the world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erickoch.ca&blog=7410808&post=618&subd=erickoch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Truth? The Latest Chapter.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We’re moving beyond the idea that information is completely true or completely false,” said Patrick Meier, a student at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Medford, outside Boston. He was referring to Ushahidi, the “everyone-as-informant mapping” that is shaking up the world, bringing the Wikipedia revolution to the world of humanitarians and soldiers. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erickoch.ca&blog=7410808&post=613&subd=erickoch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Justice versus the Rule of Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Czech Republic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ludmila Brožová-Polednová]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We wanted justice and all we got was the rule of law” was the view of some in the Czech Republic who complained about the release from prison of Ludmila Brožová-Polednová. who helped to bring opposition figures to the gallows in the Stalinist show trial against Milada Horáková in 1950. Ludmila Brožová-Polednová had been sentenced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erickoch.ca&blog=7410808&post=608&subd=erickoch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Governing is Heck</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dictionary says:
Heck can be an interjection, used as a mild expression of annoyance, rejection, disgust, as in “What the heck do you care?”
Heck can be an idiom describing something remarkable of its kind (usually used in the phrase heck of a): “That was a heck of an impressive speech” or “Have one heck of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erickoch.ca&blog=7410808&post=605&subd=erickoch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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