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Where Poverty and Culture Intersect: Embracing Local Traditions to Better Fight Poverty

Ivonne A-Baki | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

Read More: United National Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, Poverty, Unesco, World Poverty, Arts, Global Poverty, Culture, Millennium Challenge Corporation, World News

If the world's poor are to pull themselves out of extreme poverty and onto the path of development, culture is both a means and ends for doing so.

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Japanese-Jew Doesn't "Oy Veh" So Much Since Obama

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Jews, Nisei Generation, Second World War, Bar Mitzvah, The Audacity of Hope, Woody Allen, Multicultural, Kimono, Culture, Russian- Jewish, Neurotic, Shikseh Princess, Latino, Democratic Convention, The Purple Heart Batallion, Internment Camps, Asian, Multiracial, Melting Pot, Oy Veh, Barack Obama, Jewish Soul, Nisht Geferlech, Martin Luther King, University High School, Inclusion, Japanese Jew, Interfaith, Identity, Punahoe High School, Buddhism, 442nd Infantry, Japanese-Jewish Woman, Knish, Japanese-Hawaiian, Chuppah, Living News

Since Obama has become president, I feel comfortable as the multiracial shikseh that I am, and am engaging in thoughtful conversations about my heritage and background, without self-deprecation.

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Simon Cowell: A True Friend

James M. Lynch | Posted 07.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Liars, Friendship, Simon Cowell, Lies, Lying, Friends, Workplace, Honesty, Feedback, Gordon Ramsay, American Idol, Workplace Taboos, Truth, Culture, Entertainment News

A true friend is one who will tell you the truth whether or not you want to hear it, whether it might endanger the status quo of the friendship or not.

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The Solipsist and the Internet (a Review of Helprin's Digital Barbarism)

Lawrence Lessig | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Piracy, Mark-Helprin, Copyright, Culture, Mark Helprin, Lessig, Media News

Helprin's thesis is simple and familiar to any intelligent sort who first comes to think about the way the law regulates creative work: that there's something fundamentally unjust about the law of copyright.

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What the Hell is Going On?

Adam McKay | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, America, Bush Years, 2009, Culture, Politics News

What happened to hissing? It works, and people like Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and John Yoo should get a wave of it every time they enter a restaurant. That's borderline civic duty type of stuff.

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Meltdown: The Year Jazz Threw Out the Rules

Matthew Kohut | Posted 06.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Charlie Haden, John Coltrane, Jazz, Jack Kerouac, Dave Brubeck, Arts, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Music, Miles Davis, Culture, Entertainment News

How does a music festival remain edgy and relevant? The British fest Meltdown 09 made news recently by tapping Ornette Coleman as director of this year's event.

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The Truth About Miss USA, American Idol -- and Our Embrace of Illusion

Wes Isley | Posted 06.05.2009 | Style

Read More: Politics, Miss USA, Matthew Shepard, American Idol, Gay Marriage, Virginia Foxx, Truth, Culture, Carrie Prejean, Style News

Television shows and beauty pageants are rather inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but they reflect broad, underlying trends back to us.

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And Nice to Meet You, too

Scott Diel | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

Read More: Ovid, American, Etiquette, Dining, Jesus, Estonia, Introductions, Estonia Culture, Tradition, Dining Tradition, Folies-Bergere, Estonian Culture, Dinner, Culture, World News

Perhaps atypical of Estonian dinner parties, the conversation -- on their part -- flowed. But I couldn't take part. I could only sit and wonder: Who are you people? But I didn't ask. I didn't want to be too American, to pry with invasive questions.

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How We Change: The Impact of the Group On Human Development, Behavior, and IQ

Dan Agin | Posted 04.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Iq, Society, Development, Industrialization, Behavior, Culture, Living News

There are two major errors that we make when we think about ourselves and the origins of our attitudes and behavior. One error is the myth that human ...

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Escape From Banality: A Cultural Road Map For Our Children

John Farr | Posted 04.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Literature, Internet, Art, Children, Museums, Theatre, You Tube, Pop Culture, Film, Teaching, Technology, Music, Reading, Culture, Living News

Tell me if you agree with the following assessment of contemporary life, and if you do concur, then let me know why you're not scared, or angry.

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The Humanities: America's Great Formative Tradition Succumbing to the Financial Crisis

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.15.2009 | Living

Read More: New York Times, Financial Crisis, Education, The Hunmanities, Bush Presidency, English Language, Culture, The Humanities, Living News

Today, at this very moment of crisis where so much is at risk we stand ready to undermine one of the fundamental pillars of our society -- the humanities.

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The Disease of A-Thousand-Things-To-Do

Therese Borchard | Posted 04.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Information Overload, Overachievers, Media, Anxiety, Peace, Culture, Happiness, Life, Self-Help, Living News

I have contracted an illness called "the disease of a-thousand-things-to-do." That's how author Abby Seixas describes it in her insightful book, "Find...

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"Arabesque"

James Zogby | Posted 03.30.2009 | Style

Read More: Arab World, Stereotypes, Ethnicity, Culture, Racism, Washington DC, Arabesque, Style News

The experience of "Arabesque" will shatter stereotypes, and put new definition to the meaning of being Arab.

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Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra: A Musical Sensation from Venezuela

TEDTalks | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

Read More: Arts, Culture, Children, Entertainment, Education, Music, El Sistema, Teresa Carreno, Orchestra, World News

The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela's life-changing music program, El Sistema.

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The Culture Wars Roll On

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Culture Wars, Economic Stimulus Package, Conservatives, Arts Policy, Republican, Media, Barack Obama, Culture, Ideology, Art, Gop, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Funding, Politics News

The arts and humanities get a pretty raw deal. It was painful to watch the purported centrists in the Senate cut out nearly $100 million worth of funds for arts, culture and education last week.

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The Real Crisis? We Stopped Being Wise

TEDTalks | Posted 03.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Social Change, Philosophy, Culture, Politics, Society, Global Issues, Busines, Ted, Tedtalks, Living News

Barry Schwartz argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world.

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US Badminton Team To Play In Iran

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

Read More: Women, Sports, Iran, Education, State Department, Badminton, Diplomacy, Us, Foreign Policy, Culture, World News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is sending a women's badminton team to Iran this week as part of a broad bid to engage the Iranian people ...

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John Updike, Hall of Famer

David Margolick | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Culture, Literature, Ted Williams, Sports, John Updike, Boston Red Sox, The New Yorker, Media News

Up until the age of 76, Updike never stopped working, turning out a vast body of words. But nothing can top the astonishing piece he wrote on Ted Williams' final game.

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Krugman on Obama and 'You 2.0'

Juliette Powell | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

There have been some proposed appointments in the national security area, or at least floated appointments, that have essentially been torpedoed because the online community said, "No."

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Brazil Rebounds With Bossa Beat

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Read More: France, Soccer Moms, Waiting for Godot, Global Economy, Bill Ayers, Economy, Brazil, Oil, French, Natural Gas, Music, Barack Obama, Gallic, Great Depression, South America, Rainforest, Culture, Dancing, Beaches, World News

In Brazil as in the US, culture plays a big role in how nations survive the slump. Known for beaches, beauties, rain forest and laid back music, Brazil's national motto is "Order and Progress."

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In Praise of Fiction -- A Gentle Reminder

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 02.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Internet, Emotion, Writers, Writing, Books, Fiction, Novels, Tradition, Technology, Spirituality, Escape, Culture, Living News

Unlike passive varieties of entertainment, the good novel does not leave us numbed up, dumbed down, mentally impoverished, weakened or intellectually dead.

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A Thug By Any Other Name

Judy Muller | Posted 02.06.2009 | Media

If you are one of those people who are often the last to hear about the latest addition to the list of politically-incorrect words, this is for you. I clearly count myself among your number.

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A Veiled Opportunity: Walking in Saudi Arabia

Heather Frank | Posted 01.30.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Women's Rights, Islamaphobia, Gaza, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Religion, Women, Xenophobia, Tolerance, Culture, World News

It's been funny and humbling to stick out like a sore thumb for change, speaking only a few words of the local language and being so easy to spot in a crowd.

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Digging Out of the '00ze

Eric Lurio | Posted 01.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Time, Decades, Recession, Global Warming, Culture, 1960s, Bush Administration, The Kennedy Administration, George W. Bush, 9/11, Roaring 20s, The '00ze, Stuck in the '00ze, 1950s, Tabloid Journalism, Living News