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June 14-16
"My ideal elementary-school curriculum would ... require all children to learn: (1) the times tables up to, say, 25; (2) a foreign language, preferably obscure; (3) the geography of a foreign land,...
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June 17
"The first page of Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America notes that there are more public library branches in the United States than there are outlets of McDonald's."--Colin...
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June 18-20
"Why didn't they have George Bush paint it? That could have been GREAT."--Princess Sparkle Pony, regarding the unveiling of the official portrait of Dr. Condoleezza Rice (see below), former Secretary...
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June 21-23
"A 12th-grader once even responded to a comment I made about World War II by asking: 'Does that mean there was a World War I?'"--Christopher L. Doyle, who teaches history at Watkinson School in...
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June 24
HARD TIMES IN LA "How Can You Help? - uscpublicdiplomacy.org/story/support- -next-generation: "If you care as deeply as we do about equipping the next generation of public diplomacy practitioners, we...
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June 25-26
"Dante wrote in his treatise on language that though men and women must communicate with words, angels can talk to one another in silence."--Bard Professor Joseph Luzzi; Dante image fromVIDEOThe State...
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June 27-28
Image fromVIDEOEzhoFF Band - United States - youtube.com Via IK on FacebookPUBLIC DIPLOMACYState Dept: Egypt's Jailing of Journalists a 'Detour on the Path to Democracy' - Jeryl Bier, Weekly Standard:...
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June 29-30
"[...]tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne pas savoir demeurer en repos dans une chambre."--Pascal; image fromAUDIOSpecial VOA Newscast on PCJ Radio Int. [satirical]-...
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July 1-5
"Greed is picking up."--Gary Kaltbaum, president of Kaltbaum Capital Management, regarding "the continuation of a bull market"; image fromVIDEOISIS mocks Obama in Michael Bay-style propaganda video -...
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July 6
“what century is it outside?” --Russian poet Boris Pasternak; Pasternak image fromPRESENTATIONAmbassador Robert Gosende: Presentation in Warsaw on "The Conduct of Foreign Relations in the Digital Age"...
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July 7
"Dudes, we’re on our own. #independence #totallyrad #stickitkinggeorge"--A Twitter version of the Declaration of Independence; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYOpinion: A slap in the face for transatlantic...
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July 9
“We go to Europe to be Americanized.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYDepartment of State Public Schedule, July 9, 2014 - posted at rockycoastnews.blogspot.com: "UNDER SECRETARY FOR...
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July 10
"The United States continues to operate ... because a ... Senate confirmation process has left us without permanent ambassadors in 40 countries."--Secretary of State John Kerry; image fromPUBLIC...
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July 11
"[T]he American who achieved the most fame in 19th-century Paris was not an author or an artist but Napoleon III's dentist, Thomas W. Evans, formerly of Philadelphia."--Author Lauren Elkin; top image...
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July 12
"Journalism appeals to our relatively new awareness that facts don't 'speak for themselves', least of all in war."--Author Jeremy Treglown, "Revolving Door," The Times Literary Supplement (July 4,...
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July 13-14
"[W]ho are we on Facebook or Twitter if not an avatar of the persona that we’d like to project?"--TechDigest editor James O'Malley; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYHas Washington's attitude toward Modi...
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July 15
"Today, Peace Corps volunteers ... work with beekeepers in Ghana to expand honey production."--T. Rees Shapiro, Washington Post; image from"Among the projects taxpayers paid for was an effort ... to...
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July 16-20
Abbreviated EditionFromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYPerry, Obama Meet for Border Security Discussion - Ed Sterling, blanconews.com: "In a July 11 speech broadcast from Austin, Obama said he was waiting on Congress...
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July 21
"You can’t trust what you’re hearing, but you can trust the metadata."--Former NSA analyst Edward Snowden; image fromVIDEOIt’s All Diplomacy - civilnet.am: "US Ambassador John Heffern [to Armenia]...
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The purpose of the Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review; its compiler now...
The main purpose of the Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review (PDPBR), for kind readers who pay attention to it, is pedagogical. Every week, for the graduate course I am privileged to teach at...
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