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January 26
"About 43 percent of college letter grades in 2011 were Aās, up from 31 percent in 1988 and 15 percent in 1960, aĀ 2011 studyĀ found. Over roughly the same span, the average amount of studying by people...
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January 27
"I spent 24 years working for the State Department, including one year in Iraq. ...Ā For me, the real service I provided the United States began the day I realized everything about Iraq was a lie, and...
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January 28
"Someone has to get the FSOās under control. If they donāt like it, let them resign."--Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, regarding Foreign Service officers (December 18, 1975), specifically in the...
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January 29
PDPRB ABBREVIATED EDITION"We have become what the privacy theorist Daniel Solove calls 'digital persons.'ā--Colin Koopman, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon; image...
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January 30
"Individually, we are a little bit Neanderthal."--Joshua M. Akey, a population geneticist from theĀ University of Washington; cited inĀ Geoffrey Mohan, "Neanderthal DNA lives on in modern humans,...
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January 31-February 2
"Today, the Catholic Church has 1.2 billion members, and so does Facebook."--Peter Sealey, a former marketing director at Coca-Cola and Columbia Pictures, who joined Facebook's board of advisers a few...
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February 3-5
WELCOME TO SOCHI---Caitlin Dewey, "Journalists at Sochi are live-tweeting their hilarious and gross hotel experiences," Washington Post; see also John Brown, "A Secret CIA Plan to Save the Sochi...
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February 6-7
"Soft power advocates ... have been distracted by cutesy projects such as 'gastrodiplomacy,' which may produce a few newspaper articles about the virtues of kimchi or mushy peas, but are unlikely to...
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February 8-10
"America runs on clicks."--New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd; image fromāIt only took a year but @StateDept finally let me have my own @Twitter account.ā --Secretary of State John KerryVIDEOPutin...
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February 11
"American exceptionalism is basically gone."--New York Times columnist Peter BrooksREADING LISTDiplomacy's Public Dimension: Books, Articles, Websites #68ā - Bruce Gregory: "Intended for teachers of...
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February 12
"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion."--Richard M. Nixon; image fromERRATUMThe February 11 edition of the Public Diplomacy Press and Blog...
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February 13
Iāve been dying to eat at the White House ever since I begged George Bush to invite me to one of his hot dog lunches. Folks, last nightās four-course dinner was ā I canāt believe Iām saying this ā...
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February 14 - Happy Valentine's Day!
--Image from MT on facebookVIDEODiplomat Buyers Club: Is there a rule ambassadors can't have set foot in the countries they are going to ambassador? [last segment features outgoing U.S. Ambassador to...
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February 15
"[W]e live in a computer simulation based on the laws of mathematics ā not in what we commonly take to be the real world."--One fanciful possibility; image fromVIDEOSForeign Policy in Stereo | Digital...
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February 16
āWe love Americans, although we donāt always say so. And you love the French, but you are sometimes too shy to say so.ā--French President FranƧois Hollande, responding to a toast by President Obama...
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February 17-21
Abbreviated Edition"Public diplomacy lacks obvious benefits to states."--Ian Hall, Senior Fellow, Australian National University; image fromESSAYAre Political Appointees the Only U.S. Diplomats Who...
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February 22
"[T]he average adult Facebook user has more than 300 friends."--New York Times; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYA U.S.-China Summit Diplomacy Rivalry: With a new summit this year, the U.S. can begin to...
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February 23-25
Abbreviated edition"Soft power advocates ... have been distracted by cutesy projects such as 'gastrodiplomacy,' which may produce a few newspaper articles about the virtues of kimchi or mushy peas, but...
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February 26
An Even More Abbreviated PDPBR edition, given your PDPBR compiler's following Ukraine's situationĀ (see)"No more ties!"--Former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation Stanford Professor Michael...
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