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“What I did, you can multiply across the board not just for foreign media, but for Israeli media, as well,” he added. “We as a profession failed because we didn’t want to burst the bubble. We hid the...
“This is a profession where preferably you’re single,” Patokallio said. “In the end, you can always divorce, of course.”
“He was a simply outstanding lecturer, in the best Harvard tradition.... He was a man of exacting standards, for himself, for his students, and for his profession. I will miss him terribly,” Kirby wrote in an e-mail.
The citizens of Xiaoli Village move lazily, with a languor born of chronic underemployment. They are farmers by tradition, but exorbitant taxes have leached any profitability out of their profession. So on most hot days, the local peasants sit on concrete stoops, pant legs hiked up to their thighs, fanning...
Archaeologists like to joke that the pillaging of temples and other ancient sites is the world's second oldest profession. But what used to be a trickle of plundered treasures has become a flood in recent years. Villagers like Little Su, who see nothing wrong in converting an untapped resource...