Enough!
After eleven days, a fragile peace has broken out in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people in Gaza.
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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Water, water everywhere
‘Nor any drop to drink’. Yes, I know Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner was talking about the southern oceans and yes, I know the water
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Peter-Jeorg Alexander
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Letter from Germany: Anti-Semitism is on the Rise
Rudi is devastated. These demonstrations are outrageous. “Shit Jew! Child murderers!“ The crowd applauds and jeers
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Richard Pooley
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“Japanese bodies are different”. Why exceptionalism can be fatal.
What’s gone wrong in Japan? I wrote four articles* between June last year and January this year comparing the Japanese management
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Pierre Dujardin
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The Gnome Liberation Front
In September 1998 eleven garden gnomes were found hanging by their necks under a bridge at Briey in eastern France.
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Dr. Jehad Al-Omari
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A Letter from Gaza
This photo of two kids from a few days ago in Gaza spoke to me far more than all the photos of bloodshed, funerals, rocket launchers
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Niko Berghmans
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A Third Culture Kid in the 21st century: a mixed blessing
I have always disliked the question ‘What is your mother tongue?’, as I never know what to answer.
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Richard Pooley
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What’s your story?
How well do you know what your friends or members of your family do in their jobs? Or, if they have retired, what they did during their work
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Lynda Goetz
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The Plastic Pollution Problem
“Only we humans make waste that nature can’t digest.” Charles J. Moore*
I do not wish to claim any sort of clairvoyance or to say ‘we told
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Stoker
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Blooming Lovely
The British make small talk by discussing the weather; often the conversation never moves on from this introductory riff. The French,
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