Jules et Jim by François Truffaut
My favorite filmmaker of all time. With one of his most iconic movies. Jules et Jim. The story of two bohemian friends and the love they shared for the same woman. Catherine (played by the beautiful Jeanne Moreau)
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BY CLAY RISEN | NOVEMBER 11, 2009 Four years ago, economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner achieved the rarest of literary feats: Their counterintuitive book Freakonomics became a genuine nonfiction crossover hit, a best-seller beloved in academic departments and hair salons alike, praised by everyone from the Economist to O, The Oprah Foreign Policy The Big Freak Out…
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BY JULIA IOFFE | NOVEMBER 13, 2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev delivered his second state-of-the-nation address before the Russian parliament on Thursday. The speech’s sternness and substance sounded like a sharp break with Russia’s political and economic stagnation under President-turned-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who was seated in the front Foreign Policy Russia’s Staged State of the Nation…
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Jonathan Safran Foer’s beef with factory farms The polarizing author and vegetarian discusses his new book, “Eating Animals,” and the hefty cost of cheap food Jonathan Safran Foer is a strict vegetarian, but his most recent book, is not a screed against meat. It is, rather, an indictment of the corrupt, large-scale factory farming that dominates the Salon Jonathan Safran Foer’s beef with factory farms…
Read full story[Google Fast Flip] The people of Yala Swamp in Kenya dispossessed by American farming interests, from “The End of Poverty.”
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So here’s the real question about capitalism, the one nobody really wants to face: Does it create gross inequality as an unfortunate byproduct of its energy and dynamism – or is gross inequality itself, between rich and poor, between the industrialized North and the underdeveloped South, the principal product of capitalism over the last five centuries? Salon The people of Yala Swamp in Kenya dispossessed by American farming interests, from “The End of Poverty.”…
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How to Profit off the Poor… and Keep Your Soul
by Sarah Lacy on November 15, 2009 “I’ll take you! I live there!” a small boy with a blue shirt and a perfect toothy grin said as he ran ahead of me. His quiet friend in yellow jogged beside him smiling shyly, his jet-black Elvis curl bobbing on his forehead. The boy in blue stopped a few yards in front of me turned around, beaming and added in TechCrunch How to Profit off the Poor… and Keep Your Soul…
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By James Hohmann When the Loudoun County sheriff’s deputy stumbled on the green ammunition can hidden in a Sterling drainage pipe, he did the right thing. He called in the bomb squad. It turned out to be a false alarm. The bomb techs opened the box and found a few small trinkets, a notebook and a pen inside. It wasn’t an ammo box at all. It was one Washington Post Geocachers find trinkets and trouble…
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