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...project of an international encyclopedia. As a longtime linguist who speaks 27 languages and is an enthusiast of multicultural relations among peoples all over the world, I have been supporting a project of the democratization of human knowledge via the Internet since its inception. I am a regular contributor to the Wikipedia, with articles on several subjects. Time's story proved a useful support for our dream of bringing culture closer to our readers. Hamilton Castro Rio de Janeiro Judging the Nominee Re your report on supreme court nominee John Roberts [Aug. 1]: As a Roman Catholic like Roberts...
Some otherwise serious bloggers have spent the summer fascinated by a niche in romance literature with its own fan website: Sheikhs and Desert Love. Eerie, a contributor to 'Aqoul, a blog mostly about news from the Middle East, noting a significant increase in the number of romance novels featuring handsome desert nomads, provided a helpful graph documenting their rise. Yin Shui Si Yuan dismissed these romance novels as "incredibly ill-informed, orientalist, romantic fantasies involving oil sheikhs." Political Animal's Kevin Drum and Abu Aardvark's Marc Lynch have found the subject an amusing distraction from the August doldrums...
...Murdoch not given it NWI's existing slot on his DirecTV satellite system, which accounts for 14.5 million of the nearly 20 million households Current reaches. It's a big start toward the 50 million Gore hopes to attain in five years. "Rupert Murdoch right now is the biggest contributor to the possible success of Current," says John Higgins, business editor of Broadcasting and Cable magazine...
...warmhearted. If they thought the money would make the difference, they would [come through]. The American initiative on AIDS has put 150,000 people on antiretroviral drugs. If we were able to have an African peacekeeping force able to go into situations like Sudan--where America is the biggest contributor of humanitarian help--you would prevent a lot of problems...
Following the fortunes of one family for nearly two millenniums requires an epic of biblical dimension. In another writer's hands such a project might seem an unholy wedding of hubris and chutzpah. But Halter is an extraordinary contributor to the post-Holocaust literature of lament. The author is the son, grandson and greatgrandson of printers and publishers in Warsaw. As a child, he was smuggled to safety through the sewers of the city's ghetto as the Germans closed in; after wandering in the Soviet Union, he found his way to France. "Somewhere along the line," he recalls...