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...More specifically, Klaus’ account sheds light on an oft-ignored dynamic of the war: Kurdish nationalism. In the American fixation with sorting out Sunni and Shia, we often ignore this other group entangled in the political future of Iraq...
...evening, I visit the main commercial district: the oft-bombed Karrada. It straddles two broad avenues - Karrada In and Karrada Out - lined with shops selling everything from color TVs and furniture to vegetables and fruit. The two avenues are separated in some places by a single city block, and one is easily confused for the other. Now they seem worlds apart. Karrada In is buzzing: several new kebab restaurants have sprung up, and many shops have expanded. Karrada Out is the opposite, dark and empty, with most of the shops shuttered. Why? One explanation is that many of the businessmen...
...oft-cited finding from other happiness research suggests, however, that neither very good events nor very bad events seem to change people's happiness much in the long term. Most people, it seems, revert back to some kind of baseline happiness level within a couple years of even the most devastating events, like the death of a spouse or loss of limbs. Perhaps that kind of stability is due to heredity - those happiness-inducing personality traits that identical twins have been shown to share...
...which she made to a reporter for The Scotsman, led to swift condemnation from the Clinton campaign and a disavowal from Obama. Power has since apologized to both campaigns, saying that the remarks were “inexcusable” and “at marked variance from my oft-stated admiration for Senator Clinton and from the spirit, tenor and purpose of the Obama campaign.” After spending 2005 and 2006 advising Senator Obama on foreign policy issues, Power continued working as a top foreign policy advisor in Obama’s presidential campaign team, publicizing issues...
...journalism needs not be so bad. I find it highly amusing that newspapers have a pathological repulsion to statistics, names of organic molecules, and other “sciency” words because of the fear that the reference will be above their readers’ heads. Yet this oft-cited fear quickly evaporates when including references to obscure Russian poets, 1950’s French art-house film, or German philosophy. Obviously the media is just adjusting to the demographic fact that most Americans hold PhDs in literary theory even though they failed high school chemistry. It isn?...