international

The Internet Tells You Things You Don’t Want to Know

February 3, 2011

The problem with being from a second-world country that is no longer in the news in a Big Way is that your narrative for your graduate school application in economics will never be as strong as someone who is also Google searching for help on their Statement of Purpose in Economics and turns out to be from Irbid, Jordan.  Or India.  India is practically on the Economist cover every week. Ho. Luckily, I’m not competing with the visitor from Singapore ...

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Movies: The Vanished Empire

January 31, 2011

Take a trip with into nostalgia me to the vanished empire that is the Soviet Union of the 1970s. this movie is all about it. You can watch it on Netflix. Or, if you’re lucky, it’s already been playing, like a memory you have of a time you never experienced, in your head for the last 24 years. Watch Sergei, an 18-year-old student at Moscow State University, as he grows up in Moscow, and realize that this is the way your ...

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Something lighter today-We No Speak Americano

November 9, 2010

To break up yesterday’s post. If you don’t believe in evolution, you will by the end of this post. Evolution of music: This: to this… to this…

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James Zogby Wins Me Over with his Lebanese Trickery and Charm

October 26, 2010

Remember back when I lived in the capital and everything was happy and shiny and government-subsidized elves polished my shoes every morning? Back in those days (12 days ago), I used to go to all sorts of international enterprises, like the Middle East Intitute, the Hillwood mansion, and all the embassies.  Also I used to live with Mr. B and had somebody to peel my oranges. Those were the days. I was happy to learn that end of the universe -I ...

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Sam and Sofia Learn the World Despite My Moral Outrage

September 22, 2010

So Amy on Twitter pointed me to the most awesome thing ever. And I say, forget the kids. I want to get one of these babies in my mailbox every month and discover the world through adventure kits and STICKERS. Oh my God, stickers.

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