Via Der Spiegel we learn tonight that austerity measures Greece put into place to halt the country’s slide into a kind of economic Armageddon have not exactly had their intended effect:
The feast of the Assumption of Mary on Aug. 15 is the high point of summer in the Greek Orthodox world. Read More
He may have been at death’s door for a few years earlier this century, but Fidel Castro has returned almost full-force to the public eye in Cuba. Even if his brother Raul is technically the man in charge, Castro is back on TV screens and airwaves all across Cuba as if it is 1964 all Read More
Today the Post combines the “shady academics” and “sexxxy ladiez” narratives by discussing a shady academic but showing pictures of a sexxxy lady. Columbia M.B.A. Cynthia Murphy is the focus of today’s coverage, but that’s no reason to keep Anna Chapman off the front page!
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Yesterday’s Post account of Russian spy Anna Chapman focused primarily on her hotness and her wily spy-schemes (“Excuse me, could we have met in Malta in 1999?“). But now, in today’s follow-up article, we discover the “new, perhaps eerie meanings” of these phenomena: Chapman’s hotness was at Read More
Accused spy Donald Heathfield attended Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. How do his former classmates remember him? The Times investigates, and finds that “some of his characteristics have taken on a new, perhaps eerie, meaning.”
For example:
- Being vague about career plans: Heathfield was ‘always very vague’ about his ambitions, according Read More
