Tibet and the Beijing Olympic Games
The Italian blogosphere is bursting with reactions to the developments in Tibet, between competent and passionate analysis (Orientalia4all is covering the story in a series of posts beginning here) and...
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Former Slovenian president died Saturday
Janez Drnovšek [pron: janɛz dərnɒuʃɛk], former Slovenian President (2002-2007) and Prime Minister, died yesterday at his home in Zaplana (30km from Ljubljana). He was suffering from liver and lung...
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Halo-lujah
Once upon a time, when I was a young boy, pinballs and table football (and the basketball playground on sunny days) were the top attractions at the oratorio (impossible to translate: it should be something...
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Pollution in pixels
The thing I like most about the Blog Action Day initiative is that it challenges the authors to write something regarding the environment as related to the usual subjects of their blogs, and not...
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Mind the crack
Every now and then, I happen to express strong disbelief regarding the actual value of conceptual art. Not specific works: conceptual art itself. Then I come across an image of something like Doris Salcedo's...
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Tabloid
Dedicated to those who always complain about Italian press, and praise the mythical britannic journalistic school. A Polish blogger, the beatroot, says that a reporter from a British tabloid offered to...
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War crimes
By citing Italy's colonial wars, Domiziana made me remember an article I read some time ago about the Lybia campaign. Citing an anthropological study of relations between nomads and sedentary people, the...
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Michael Moore did not know
At least six people died last Tuesday as heavy rain caused floods in northwestern Slovenia. While expressing my regret for the loss of human lives, I also want to point out the destruction of a piece of...
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Unauthorized reincarnation
China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission(Newsweek)It looks stupid, doesn't it? But I'm not so sure: as the article suggests, this decision may enable the...
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A fact is a fact is a fact
PolitiFact is a project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly to help you find the truth in the presidential campaign. Every day, reporters and researchers from the Times and CQ will...