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2008

• What I'm reading: Next

• Think summer

• Another argument for married clergy

• UK schools change linguistic priorities 

• What I'm Reading:The Peloponnesian War

• Oil over $100

• What I'm Reading: The October Country

• Eighties Rock Moment: Triumph ("Fight the Good Fight")

• High linguistic requirements for office 

• It's nice to be quoted

• Author photo

• Some unsolicited advice to Serbia: enough already 

• Amy Chua on immigration 

• No excuses anymore (for not learning a language)

• Ebay's vulnerabilities

• Reader disturbed by Spanish-language ad 

• And now, the backlash…. 

• Foreign Languages, Patriotism, and American values

• Iran in space...and what it means for us

• Don't count Japan out just yet 

• Another case of judicial stupidity in Afghanistan

• Another reason why we need to break our fossil fuel habit

• Barack Obama's plan for fighting terrorism

• A few political musings before Super Tuesday 

• The decline of the West? We've heard this one before...

• Training global management in China

• Signs of the times…

• Soul-searching in cubicle land 

• What will Bill Gates' departure mean for Microsoft? 

• How oil could take a big tumble

• Top ten majors

• Norwegian government mandates 40% female execs 

• Save the world or save yourself? 

• Two visions of employee motivation 

• Detroit may regret banking on the BRICs 

• Think your boss is nosy? Check this out… 

• Economic stimulus should focus on consumers---not corporations 

• What's so great about Ebay?

• Sears is reorganizing, but is this enough? 

• Less creativity, more vehicle shots  

• Will Chamco be the next Honda or Toyota? 

• The candidates: good, the bad, and the ugly (a political digression)

• What I'm reading: Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser 

• Hyping the mortgage crisis 
   

 

Commentary Archive

2007

Miscellaneous Entries

• September 27 - October 2, 2007

History

• John. F. Kennedy and the "engineer gap" 

• David McCollough's biography of John Adams

• Why did the Six Day War occur?

• The Battle of Thermopylae 

• Zoroastrianism 

• Show and tell: Russian rubles

• The Middle East during World War I

• The Dark Side of Peter the Great

• Kennedy and Communism

 

The Middle East

• An end to problems with Iran? Well, not quite..

• Ed's book review: Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time

• On leaving Iran out of the Middle East peace talks 

• Time for a feminist uprising in Saudi Arabia 

• Mahmoud--- bringin' down the house at Columbia!

• How do you say "long-winded" in Farsi?

• Ahmadinejad to speak at Columbia University: is this a good idea?

• Don't like the Dubai Nasdaq deal? Don't buy an SUV 

• France says: "Oui! The time has come to tear Iran a new one." 

• Busy professionals and foreign language acquisition

• Ahmadinejad renews an old dream of Khomeini’s

• Pakistan: the land of radical Islam and WMDs  

• The latest tactic in Iraq: arming Sunni militia groups 

• Another miscarriage of justice in the Muslim Middle East 

• It’s time to wake up to the reality in Iran

• Taking stock of Saddam’s execution 

• Diane Sawyer's interview with Bashar al-Asad 

• Sorting out the good guys and the bad guys in the Iraqi government 

• Iran faces problems with terrorism 

• Should the U.S. talk directly to Iran?

• Tough questions in Riyadh

Asia

• Japan's new role in the world

• Will Chinese cars make it in the U.S. market? 

• History repeats itself in China

• China's homicidal grandparents 

• North Korean "nuclear buyout" plan announced 

• For Australia, China is now a more significant trading partner than Japan 

• Why outsourcing to China may backfire in the long run 

• China's next target: cheerleading 

• Japan should own up and move on

• Asia's Gender Imbalance

• Chinese missile test a wake-up call for radical free traders 

• Pollution, income gap become priorities in China 

• Even North Korea is on the internet these days 

Latin America

• Setbacks for Latin America’s neo-Marxists 

• The end of the line for Hugo Chavez? 

• No Child Left Behind --- Hugo Chavez style 

• The latest Chavez oil grab--- and calls to boycott Citgo 

• Chavez spooks investors 

• As Venezuela’s economy sputters, Chavez turns on the bluster 

• Observations from San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Europe

• Russian voters say da to Czar Putin

• Russia doing what Russia does best

• Germany's problem is our problem, too

• Behind Putin’s anti-U.S. tirade 

• It's official: Nicholas Sarkozy is the next president of France

• Sarkozy: the man who may change France

Society

• Newspaper decides not to endorse John Edwards over corporate criticisms

• Supporting our troops --- by taking away their slot machines 

• Abstinence-only programs and teen pregnancy

• As Clinton moves to the center, she loses her appeal for the hard-core left  

• Even if you love him, don’t hold your breath for Ron Paul

• Huckabee: a tax-and-spend evangelical

• The issues behind the Jim Watson row 

• Are high-earning women "dating down?" 

• Jena 6: civil rights ---- or bad adolescent behavior? 

• The Ohio Taliban rides again

• Moderation needed in political, economic globalization

• We are what we read 

• Flying the prudish skies: score another one for the busybodies

• Love, marriage, and financial secretiveness

• Fighting terrorism with metaphors

• CNN dumbs itself down 

• Bush-era conservatives are obsessed with sex 

• The Dems challenge the GOP in the holier-than-thou department

• More fretting about the "over-sexed" culture

• They must be getting kind of bored in Amsterdam

• On Hillary, Bush, and political dynasties

• A few comments regarding the JFK terror plot

• The Religious Right goes after Romney

• Protecting the good people of Ohio--- from strippers?

• Henryk A. Kowalczyk for President?

• Michael Moore Exposed: Oh My…

• Blaming teachers for America's education woes

• The immigration protest that the American press ignored

• More debate about the H1B

• Don Imus got what was coming to him

• Will Baby Boomers sink the economy?

• The inconsistent nature of U.S. drug laws 

• The latest fashionable worry: underweight fashion models 

• The right to bear arms and common sense

• Oscar who?

• The flat tax is back in the news 

• Do schools overemphasize "self-esteem"?

• We need a new batch of political commentators 

Business / Career

• Common sense, but still good advice

• Offshoring leaves a bitter taste in the mouths of British chocolate workers 

• Robert Reich on "corporate citizenship"

• Career advice for Britney Spears

• Chinese companies building plants in the U.S.: a new trend?

• Should you fire your boss? 

• On parenting, work, and corporate culture 

• As gas prices rise, calls for government intervention will increase

• Gasoline subsidies and free trade

• Is the MBA still relevant?

• The future for workers over forty

• Lessons from Yahoo in China

• Expatriates should speak the local language

• Bank of America caters to those who break U.S. laws 
   

Technology

• Musician grumbles about illegal file-swapping culture

• Ambitious translation claims for new Fuji copier 

• When virus protection software goes psycho 

• Super-cheap laptops and Intel

• Why I am in no hurry to upgrade to Microsoft Vista

• Digital rights management, the music industry, and Steve Jobs 

• Microsoft backpedals on Vista sales

• Web 2.0 startups repeating old mistakes in new ways

• Ads on Wikipedia? Will Wales share the wealth?

Automobiles

• Just what the U.S. automotive industry needed 

• Toyota takes the number one spot, but….

• Ford’s Mustang crossover vehicle is one to watch

• Will Toyota’s expansion veer into overreach? 

• History repeats itself at Chrysler, but the company's management never learns

Language

• Is Mandarin "The new English?"

• On poor foreign language skills and the "global naiveté" of Americans 

• "The zeal for learning Chinese is sweeping the world."

• i-Pod language classes the latest thing 

• Latin as a "universal" language?

• Does the Irish language have a future?

• Even Thais have difficulty with the Thai language

• Rival politicians in Australia trade jibes over foreign language skills 

• Japanese the number one blogging language?

• President Bush and the Spanish language  

• JFK and Foreign Languages

• Minnesota Newspaper kvetching over drive to create a language immersion program for kids

• A madrassa in the NYC public school system? Probably not.