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March 3
"Those Greeks were superficial—out of profundity."--Nietzche; Nietzche images fromVIDEOSWith Rodman Stunt, American Reality TV and North Korean Propaganda Fuse - Robert Mackey, New York Times:...
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March 4
"In 1941, my parents and two siblings were among thousands of Lithuanian citizens deported to the remotest regions of Siberia. After two years, more than 40 percent of the deportees had perished....
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March 5
"We were not so much an empire ... as an umpire."--San Diego State University Professor Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, regarding the United States's role in the world in times past; cited in "Come Home,...
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March 6-9
"When forced, therefore, to resort to arms for redress, an appeal to the tribunal of the world was deemed proper for our justification. This was the object of the Declaration of Independence. ......
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March 10
"What the cold war made, the invasion of Iraq largely unmade."--Columnist Ross Douthat, New York Times; see also; image fromVIDEOSilenced: Civic Courage on Film, Coming Soon to a Theater Near You -...
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March 11-12
"inevitably Public Diplomacy"--Blogger/author Peter Van Buren, regarding the State Department career "cone" of a Foreign Service officer having provided sex tapes featuring Brett McGurk [see - JB], who...
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March 13
"We didn't need dialogue. We had faces!"--Gloria Swanson, in the role of silent screen star Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950); image fromVIDEOTara Sonenshine on China's Public...
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March 14-15
"HUSTLER and Larry Flynt are sex diplomats for the U.S."--Philip Bristol, Public [Pubic? - JB] Diplomacy student, Syracuse University; image fromAdditional image, Cheerleader of the Day: Syracuse,...
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March 16
"Saddam Hussein is evil."--George W. Bush, "with the air of a student talking out of turn," in his first major interview after 9/11; see also; image fromVIDEOViral video supposedly showing North Korean...
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March 17
"Multibillion-dollar map of human brain might not be worth it"--Headline in Los Angeles Times; image from article, with caption: A brain scan of white matter fibers, color-coded by directionVIDEOThe...
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March 18-19
“I don’t even remember how old I am. I wake up each day with a thousand problems, so why should I remember that?"--Abdullah Fadil, who has sold tea since 1982 outside a mosque in Adhamiya, a...
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March 20
"[T]oday there's a square in Jerusalem named for Pollard."--Bret Stephens, "Don't Free Jonathan Pollard: A man who betrayed his country is no martyr to the Jewish people," Wall Street Journal; image...
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March 21
"Senate votes to keep White House closed, slaughterhouses open."--Headline in The Washington Times; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYObama Kicks Off First Presidential Visit to Israel - Genevieve Belmaker,...
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March 22-23
Image fromIraq veteran, paralyzed by sniper, prepares to take his own life - Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times; image from article, with caption: Tomas Young, shown with his brother Nathan in 2007, has...
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March 24-25
“Describe the train station in which Anna first met Vronsky.”--Question on the pop quiz given by Vladimir Nabokov to his Cornell students taking his course “European Literature of the Nineteenth...
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March 26-27
VIDEOBar Refaeli Israel ad controversy: Supermodel responds on Twitter - Andrea Reiher, blog.zap2it.com: "Supermodel Bar Refaeli is under fire from the defense forces in her home country of Israel...
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March 28-29
“He will never forgive you for supporting him.”--Boris Nemtsov, Russia’s deputy prime minister during Yeltsin’s second Presidency, warning recently self(?)-hanged Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky that...
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March 30-31
"Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference."--Dramatist David Mamet; image fromNEW SITE OF INTERESTThe BBG's globalnewsdashboard;...
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April 1-2
"Bin Laden is the quintessential public diplomat."--Scholars A. Evans and D. Stevens; see also; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYU.S. reduces radio news broadcasts to Iran, Afghanistan, Belarus, China and...
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April 3-5
"Are universities mostly boot camps for adulthood, where young people learn how to ... fornicate meaningfully ... ?"--New York Times pundit David BrooksEVENTGastrodiplomacy: a panel discussion and...
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