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		<title>the dumbest generation: more on why the internet ruins lives (and generations)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lee Drutman reviews a new book by Mark Bauerlein called &#8220;The Dumbest Generation&#8221; in the LA Times, qualifying the author as &#8220;your archetypal cranky old professor,&#8221; but admitting there is some sense in his arguments&#8230; at least some of them, some times: But amid the sometimes annoyingly frantic warning bells that ding throughout &#8220;The Dumbest Generation,&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twotalking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3426677&amp;post=36&amp;subd=twotalking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>giving tolerance a bad name, or in other words, why some things should stay sacred</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent incident at a British school involving religious education is disappointing for the lack of sensitivity (not to mention common sense) with which a lesson on Islam was handled. Though all the facts are yet to come out, a classroom of year 7 children was apparently forced to take part in Muslim prayer, headgear included, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twotalking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3426677&amp;post=35&amp;subd=twotalking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>arabic at the university: propaganda on our campuses?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An op-ed piece by a student at Harvard Law School by the name of Joel Pollak in the Washington Post today tries to reflect on how Arabic is taught in the post-9/11 boom-world of Middle Eastern studies in the United States. What it ends up doing more successfully instead is reflecting the ambiguity or ambivalence that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twotalking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3426677&amp;post=33&amp;subd=twotalking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>how embarrassing: guantanamo interrogations inspired by china</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports: The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.” The chart, unbeknownst to the students, was lifted in its entirety from a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twotalking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3426677&amp;post=31&amp;subd=twotalking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>obama&#8217;s newfound brothers hussein: more than just a middle name!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article from the International Herald Tribune describes the phenomenon of Obama supporters taking on his Muslim middle name &#8211; Hussein &#8211; as their own as well in a move of solidarity in the face of persistent rumor-mongering on the subject of the candidate&#8217;s religion. This rather baffling trend is only the latest in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twotalking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3426677&amp;post=30&amp;subd=twotalking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>note to hollywood: get ready for the bollywood invasion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday in the International Herald Tribune, Heather Timmons reported: Reliance Entertainment, part of an Indian conglomerate controlled by the telecommunications and finance mogul Anil Ambani, is in talks to finance Steven Spielberg and David Geffen in a new venture&#8230; They envision nothing short of remaking Hollywood. Timmons goes on to explain how this redrawing of Hollywood by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twotalking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3426677&amp;post=29&amp;subd=twotalking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>cultural turmoil in Algiers: schoolground as battleground</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in the International Herald Tribune today explores the confusing web of ideologies that Muslims contend with today in many parts of the world, looking in particular at the ways in which these debates have shaped the development of Algeria&#8217;s education system. Writer Michael Slackman writes about how the de-Frenchification of institutions (especially schools) by the government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twotalking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3426677&amp;post=28&amp;subd=twotalking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>compassion: the not-so-universal virtue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clifford Orwin writes a fascinating history of the concept of compassion as conceived through the ages in the publication In Character. Moving from the classical thinkers like Plato who had seen compassion, or rather pity, as a weakness, all the way to the 18th and 19th centuries when the concept of (secular) compassion emerged to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twotalking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3426677&amp;post=25&amp;subd=twotalking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>information overload: more on why too much technology makes our brains stupid (potentially)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The prevalence of and cultural importance attached to multi-tasking is dangerous, suggests Christine Rosen in The New Atlantis, because how it often results in a loss of efficiency. She cites many studies in support, one of which strikingly mentions how the disruption of a single phone-call or of sending an email results in the loss of 25 minutes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twotalking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3426677&amp;post=24&amp;subd=twotalking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>trends: &#8220;inshaAllah!&#8221; epidemic strikes Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the phrases that even the casual traveler to an Arabic-speaking country, not to mention the rising number of foreign language students to these countries, leaves with, is &#8220;Insha&#8217;Allah&#8221;(often translated as &#8221;God-Willing&#8221;). A fun phrase that is a useful strategy in social situations of all kinds: a way to get out of unwanted and awkward [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twotalking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3426677&amp;post=23&amp;subd=twotalking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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