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Karl Stead: unfussy talker and award winning author – Times Online
The reason I set this story in Croatia, rather than in New Zealand, was because everybody would have tried to work out who the characters were, and I didn’t want that.
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Unvarnished: Is Pete Kazanjy an Evil Genius?
Unvarnished is a new website where you can post and read anonymous reviews of people and their professional performance. That sounds a little frightening, doesn’t it? TechCrunch has been writing about it for days and the company just started rolling out invites. See Michael Arrington’s thought provoking, if extreme, post Reputation Is Dead: It’s Time […]
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Facebook Users Will Soon “Like” a Page to Become a Fan, not “Become a Fan”
Facebook is changing some terminology around how people become fans of its Pages product, a move that could be somewhat confusing but has apparently worked well in the company’s tests. “People will soon connect with your Brand Pages by clicking ‘Like’ rather than ‘Become a Fan,” the company recently began telling advertising agencies about the […]
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BC Prof Suggests Young Children Need Less Formal Math, Not More
DesScorp writes “Professor Peter Gray, a developmental psychologist and researcher at Boston College, recounts an experiment done in New Hampshire schools in 1929, where math was completely taken out of the curriculum of the poorest schools from the area until the sixth grade. The results were surprising; with just one year of math under their […]
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The Oligarch to the dying press : “Nasdarovie!”
Coincidence. At the same time as the Russian billionaire Alexandre Lebedev was finalizing the acquisition of the British paper The Independent, France-Soir was relaunched with great fanfare and money from another oligarch, Sergey Pugachyov. It is not a coincidence, it is an emerging pattern. A terrible one. In which huge amounts of money of questionable origin […]
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e-novine.com – Pokrov nad glavom
Hrvatsko domoljublje nikada nije bilo toliko romantično i idealistički čedno da izbjegne ostvarenje svojih mokrih snova. Naprotiv, romantični dekor bujao je u sklopu renoviranja i opravdanja. Kuhinja okićena raspelom i državnim grbom, krunica nad štednjakom, zidovi s uramljenim portretima Majke Božje, kralja Tomislava, Ante Starčevića i blaženog nadbiskupa Stepinca, obično su slutili na to da […]
