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Short
Fiction
Some business trips are more demanding than others. When Marc Jonas
complained about his upcoming business trip to the planet Kelphi, his boss
said, "The Kelphi haven’t eaten humans in any significant numbers for a
hundred years. You’re not afraid, are you Marc?"
Last Dance with
Emma:
There was only one problem with the beautiful young woman Randy met on
the dance floor: She died more than thirty years ago....
Hay Moon
:
In the summer of 1932, the undead invaded a rural county in Ohio. More
than seven decades later, one man still lives with the memories...
Gate Time :
Do you airports scare you? Airports scared Josh Geiger...
Bitter Hearts: "Sometimes love
is cruel."
The Red Devil:
A security guard at a car dealership in Texas has reason to
wonder about his coworkers.
The Robots of
Jericho
In a factory in West Virginia, a college intern discovers that five
industrial robots are not what they appear to be.
Citizens: The politics of
America’s future can be deadly. A conservative senator of the
twenty-second century finds himself sentenced to death---by a court
convened in 1793.
Giants in the Trees: When Jim
agreed to give Paul Taulbee a ride home from work, he unwittingly entered
his older colleague’s private corner of hell.
The Vampires of Wallachia: A
routine drive through Ohio takes a sinister turn.
The Wasp: "God made the bee; but the Devil made the
wasp."
The Caliphate:
When a terrorist group takes over a North American city, two college
friends are forced to confront their ultimate breaking points---and each
other.
Whatever: Greg Hensley knew he desired his
subordinate...But how dangerous was she?
Gaia Cried Out:
To Kara Teller, Nicholas Naretti seemed like Mr. Wonderful. Nicholas was
tall, handsome, and possessed a strong social conscience. However, Kara
soon discovered that beneath Nicholas's passion lay a murderous intent.
Commentary/ Miscellaneous Archives
2010
2009
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Reflections on Obama's first year
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Learning Business Chinese
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Ronald Reagan's Berlin Wall speech
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Stephen Hunter on the samurai /
Terrorist sympathies and the silver spoon / On dream tests
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USSR : rest in ignominy / One more
reason to ignore professional sports / The man who should have been
president
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Giving the gift of language (and
getting back to basics) / American presidents who speak Mandarin
Chinese?
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Why I recommend some foreign languages over
others (Or: Why would anyone want to learn German?)
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Anonymous online nastiness, aging,
and social networking sites
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Suspense, realism, and Dean Koontz's
Velocity
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"Take that, infidels!": Iranian "Cyber
Army" hacks Twitter
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Spoken Chinese fluency without Chinese
characters: Is it possible?
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Quick review: Stalin: A Biography
by Robert Service
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Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell and the
decline of the horror genre/ Mini-review of Weapon: A Visual History of
Arms and Armor
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Economics 101: the one-sentence summary
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A language is a tool
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English and national identity in the
Philippines
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N is for Nobel. O is for overrated.
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Here comes the bride....and the
lawyers!
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Reader Mail: "Hay Moon"
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Quick review: A World Undone: The
Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918, by G.J. Meyer
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The Ghosts of Cincinnati
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Quick review: Dirty White Boys,
by Stephen Hunter
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Six words about the Tiger Woods affair:
"I don't know, I don't care"
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Best movie atmosphere: Hue in Full Metal
Jacket
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The Swiss fight Islamic radicalism
with....building codes?
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"The lady doth protest too much,
methinks"
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On the President's Afghanistan speech
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The right thing for the wrong
reason
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Re-Release of "Hay Moon"
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Linguistic authenticity in
fictional works
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How to scare off a dating advice
columnist in eight easy steps
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The Soviet anti-tank dog
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Sarah Palin, the GOP, and ghosts of
Democrats past
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Interest rates, China, and the
American spendthrift
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The most prolific writer ever?
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Baby Boomers, healthcare reform,
and the Big O
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Training the next generation of CIA
agents
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Eco-terrorism and "Gaia Cried Out"
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On the question of Kindle…
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Should drivers be ticketed for not speaking
English?
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Reader question: foreign language
self-study on a budget
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New short story: "Whatever"
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What brings in the traffic?
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Language, market principles, and
eternal change
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Trimnell's Trivia: "To err is Truman"/
Douglas MacArthur’s weakness
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New short story: The Wasp
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Trimnell's Triva: Death and taxes, Greek,
Latin, and Charlemagne, Who named the tarantula?
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Trimnell's Trivia:
Aristotle and women's teeth, A question about aluminum, The last public
execution
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Trimnell's Trivia: Train
travel and U.S. president / Of Roman gods and English months
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Trimnell's Trivia: Ho Chi Minh's
metaphor, Churchill's Iron Curtain speech
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Ray Bradbury on self-education
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Back-to-school with the Big O
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Machine translation and
foreign language study
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Ben Stein asks: Are children
worth it?
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When books and movies collide:
I am Legend, Stir of Echoes, and No Country for Old Men
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Quick review: Black Powder War
by Naomi Novik
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Reader questions about "The
Vampires of Wallachia"
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Reads I remember
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Comments on my "President
Bush and the Spanish language" post
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The Red Queen by Matt
Ridley (quick review)
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What Ernest Hemingway had
to say about sports
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Offline extrovert, online
curmudgeon
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Attention guys: novels for your
midlife crisis (part 1)
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Do tall people rule?
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The philosopher's dilemma: to marry or
not to marry?
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Horror fiction: short stories
vs. novels
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Discussion of F. Scott Fitzgerald's
"Winter Dreams"
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Short story recommendations
for summer
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My review of W.
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Ho Chi Minh, perceived value, and
YouTube
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Slavery in ancient Rome and the GM
bailout / More news that isn't: Americans over 50 and Michael Jackson
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Passengers, The Sixth
Sense, and derivative works
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Reader Question:
"Giants in the Trees" / Quick review of Agincourt by Bernard
Cornwell /Women's rights in Iran
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The Victorian vampire vs. the modern
zombie
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Politics and fiction: do they
mix?
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General Motors, the banking crisis, and
Obama's new "executive pay" measures
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What I'm reading: A Spell for the
Revolution, by C.C. Finlay
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The stakes in the Iranian Election
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Should you learn Hindi?
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Book review: Songs for the
Missing, by Stuart O'Nan
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Debt, Obama, and the Tiananmen anniversary
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A few words on the Big O's Middle
East speech
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Dick Cheney and the same-sex
marriage brouhaha
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CNN reports: "Few Americans
have favorable view of Muslim world"
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How the government screwed you today /
More bizarre news out of North Korea
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Review of Freakonomics
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The end of the road for Kim Jong il?
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My take on Sonia Sotomayor /
Current events and "Citizens"
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Review: Retribution: the Battle for
Japan 1944-5 by Max Hastings
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Acceptable speech and 80s
rock
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Michelle Obama brings freedom to
Iran, too
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New short story: "Citizens"
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John Grisham, life experience, and story
ideas
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A lesser known spot on the
linguistic internet
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New short story: "The Robots of
Jericho"
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One more thing the President
can't grasp
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History repeats itself…
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New in the bookstore:
Streetwise Chinese
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Dumbing down language texts
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Good riddance to Arlen Specter
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Barack Obama, socialism, and Ayn
Rand
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Book review: Moscow Rules by
Daniel Silva
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President Obama, political
correctness, and the "torture" controversy
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CIA still lacking critical foreign
language skills
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Reflections on the Obama-Chavez
handshake
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A secession movement simmering in Texas?
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The stealth price increase
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News that isn't: people over 50 on the Internet
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Just when I think the Democrats have a
monopoly on stupidity….
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Obama’s bow to the Saudi King: Does
it matter?
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"The Caliphate," horror in
translation, and more
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On age, sex appeal, and the American
obsession with youth
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China as economic savior?
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In Europe, fellow socialists Brown and
Obama buddy up
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Interpreters stressed by
mortgage meltdown
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Great expectations and the Obama
presidency
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Exercise caution before switching
careers
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Say goodbye to perks at work
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How Obama is boosting the price of gold
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Future of English, Mandarin Education debated in
Malaysia
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Obama's bowling gaffe
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Iran rebuffed Obama: no surprises here
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Political posturing and the AIG
bonuses
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Reader Question: Current
events and the "The Caliphate"
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Why Rush Limbaugh is bad news for the
GOP
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Throwing Good Money after Bad
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Please, comrades, buy our
bonds!
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What are we now, Venezuela?
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For China, the downside
of globalization arrives
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"I'll have another truckload of your money,
please!"
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Obama’s mortgage bailout scheme
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The New York Post, Al Sharpton, and
the race card
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Does Obama Nation
mean a socialist future?
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The rise and fall of the
finance industry and “brand name” B-schools
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Book review: Keith Massey’s
Intermediate Arabic for Dummies
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Is
Barack Obama the next Jimmy Carter?
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Book
review: Pale Horse Coming, by Stephen Hunter
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Book
review:
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
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Book review: The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World
1788-1800
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Book review:
the Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
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Book review: Just After Sunset
(Stephen King)
2008
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Some "Trimnell's Trivia" entries
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Random commentaries December - November
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The shoe-throwing Iraqi journalist
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Why the Detroit 3 bailout is a bad idea
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Finally, it's OK to like
France again
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McCain and Obama pledge to
work together to screw taxpayers
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Nancy Pelosi proposes bailout
package for ailing porn industry
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Obama family draws stares,
adoration at Chicago-area supermarket
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Down but not out, Sarah Palin reportedly
eyes Wasilla PTA post
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Iranian President Mahmoud
Amadinejad scolds president-elect Obama in a newly surfaced letter
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DHL: "Don't Hire for Long"
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More corporate welfare on the way…
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"A" world language vs. "the" world
language
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Time to throw in the towel
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The Obama Victory: Ten Good Things
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Proposition K and the World's Oldest
Profession
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Conservatives, we blew it...
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Obama nation and the loyal opposition
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McCain vs. Obama: who would be better for
business?
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Obama and the S-word
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Saturday night and the GREAT ONE was calling
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Language, soft power, and China
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Chinese cars in the U.S.?
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Japanese general's career a World War II
casualty
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Iran's barbaric mullahs
are at it again
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Is English declining as
a lingua franca in Asia?
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Halloween: satanic holiday or harmless
fun?
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Sarah Palin drives up SNL ratings...but
what about her own image?
-
Hindi, Chinese, phonetics, and "common
sense" in education
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Some really good news about Mandarin
studies in the United States
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The Chicago Tribune endorses Obama
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U.S. Military still struggles
with language barrier in Iraq
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Australia "overhauling"
Mandarin language education
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Is Korean an "endangered language"?
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Why you should read The Jewel of Medina
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Is John McCain insane?
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"Extreme" globalization a likely casualty of
financial mess
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Free speech or political correctness:
anti-blasphemy resolution adopted by U.N.
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Why we're mad about the bailout
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Now we're bailing out the states too
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Who is to blame for the subprime
crisis?
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Some resources for learning Korean
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Is the Russian language making a
comeback?
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Palin, Israel, and Iranian nukes
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Russian leaders grumble about the "U.S.
Contagion"
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Put some teeth in the corporate bailouts
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Saudi Arabia not a top destination for
foreign students of Arabic
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Russia and the curse of oil
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On hate mail and angry comments
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Generation Y and money
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Follow-up: the conflict in South Ossetia
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What I'm Reading:The Dumbest Generation: How the
Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or,
Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)
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Russia's demographic malaise
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Foreign language: Americans may finally be
getting it
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Sarah Palin belongs to the world now
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Dissecting Sarah Palin's acceptance speech: an
alternative conservative view
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Did Obama play the race card?
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Cuil: a better (or necessary) mousetrap?
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Obama's performance in Paris
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Kids show off their Mandarin skills in Lawrence, KS
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Justice and death in Iran
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McCain's latest tactic may backfire
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Lawyers gone amok---again
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American parents move to Asia so child can
learn Mandarin
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Residents to name sewage plant after George
W. Bush
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A reader question about the Toyota Prius
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The New Yorker tries to be a little too clever
for its own good
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Something worth watching on YouTube
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Barrack Obama's "Spanish comments"
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Is Iran the new USSR?
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What Obama's "shift to the center" really means
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You're never too old to be in shape
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Is an "obsession with English" undermining
native language skills in Asia?
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Should employers refuse to hire smokers and
overweight applicants?
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Commodities traders and environmentalists
become strange bedfellows
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This time I have to side with Obama
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More on Chinese language education in the U.S.
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A brief review of the The Mist
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The high ground and the gutter at YouTube
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China and oil prices
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Obama campaign: no hijabs, please
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Booing Hillary in Michigan
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Obama's "knives vs. guns" comment
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The joys of business travel
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Protests over U.S.-Iraqi security talks
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Does it really matter at this point?
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Is race really the issue that divides the
Democrats?
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Russian nationalism and Indiana Jones
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Google, Amazon and resource allocation
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How the media shafted Hillary (again)
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Why John McCain might scare me even more
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Youthful nationalism in China and Russia
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Teacher salaries and time off
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What I’m Reading:The Age of Turbulence
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Silly celebrity sex news
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Mandarin Chinese an "integral piece of a good
American education"
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Paul Broun: another aspiring national nanny
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Obama and the "youth vote"
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Why the Tibet issue won't go away
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Tough euro times in Italy
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The technical definition of a recession
may not matter
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Make the infidels pay at the pump
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Don't expect al-Sadr to give up
easily
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Taxing the Internet
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Obesity and discrimination
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Do audiences need another anti-Bush piece?
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Does NATO need to expand into Eastern Europe?
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Books, consumer choice, and monopsony
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"Global English" is just bad English
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Learn English or go to jail?
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Free speech, Europe and Islam
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For those of you studying Thai…
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Become a lawyer without law school?
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What divorce parties and weddings have in
common
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Another reason to
just learn the language…
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My words exactly…
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There's a disconnect here
somewhere...
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Do interest rate cuts = higher oil?
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I knew that this was coming....
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My take on the Elliot
Spitzer scandal
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Foreign language vocabulary
acquisition
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One more reason not to move to Ohio...
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How to fix the economy…
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Should Congress be meddling with executive pay
packages?
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Will Hindi and
Chinese dethrone English?
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A cool piece of slipstream fiction
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A frustrating story about American schools
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My very brief review of the Canon HG-10
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Prince Harry in Afghanistan
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Barack "Hussein" Obama and the "Muslim question"
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A Mandarin immersion program in
Minnesota
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YouTube: Public Enemy in Pakistan
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Will rising costs in China lead to inflation in
the U.S.?
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What I'm reading: Next
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Think summer
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Another argument for married clergy
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UK schools change linguistic priorities
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What I'm Reading:The Peloponnesian War
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Oil over $100
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What I'm Reading: The October Country
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Eighties Rock Moment: Triumph
("Fight the Good Fight")
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High linguistic requirements for
office
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It's nice to be quoted
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Author photo
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Amy Chua on immigration
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No excuses anymore (for not learning a language)
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Ebay's vulnerabilities
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Reader disturbed by Spanish-language ad
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And now, the backlash….
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Foreign Languages, Patriotism,
and American values
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Iran in space...and what it means for us
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Don't count Japan out just yet
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Another case
of judicial stupidity in Afghanistan
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Another reason why we need to break our
fossil fuel habit
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Barack Obama's plan for fighting terrorism
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A few political musings before Super
Tuesday
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The decline of the West? We've
heard this one before...
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Training global management in China
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Signs of the times…
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Soul-searching in cubicle
land
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What will
Bill Gates' departure mean for Microsoft?
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How oil
could take a big tumble
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Top ten majors
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Norwegian government mandates 40% female
execs
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Save the world or save yourself?
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Two visions of employee
motivation
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Detroit may regret banking on the BRICs
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Think your boss is nosy? Check this out…
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Economic stimulus should focus on
consumers---not corporations
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What's so great about Ebay?
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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
2007
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