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A year-end look at Malaysia from afar
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:15:15 -0800
Half a century after independence, Malaysians remain clueless as to who and what they are, and remain as distant as ever from that once cherished ideal of a Malaysian nation for all Malaysians, observes Farish Noor. I began my academic career more than a decade ago — and I can wryly state, with a smirk [...]
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Hubbard Film Society will Present Screening of 'Potiche'
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:22:40 -0800
The Hubbard Film Society will host screenings of the film "Potiche" at the Aurora Theatre on Sat., Feb. 4 at 11 a.m. and on Wed., Feb. 8 at 4 p.m. Dinner and conversation about the film will take place at The Roycroft Inn following the Wednesday screening.
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Putin promises Russians bigger say in politics
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:04:56 -0800
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is running for a third term as president, on Monday promised Russians a bigger say in politics amid the growing public discontent with his dominance of power.
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Shaken by rallies, Putin says Russian society maturing
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:32:11 -0800
MOSCOW (AFP) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, facing an outburst of protest against his rule, called Monday for an update of Russia's political system in response to what he said was a maturing civil society.
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Labour: Banks must serve society
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:12:49 -0800
Ed Miliband calls for a culture of "one nation banking" in which financial institutions are not "isolated" from the rest of the economy and society.
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All in the Family: The Changing Face of American Home Life
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:20:50 -0800
Is the American family changing too quickly for society, especially politics, to keep up with?
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In the Pashtun society, customs have generally been more dominant than religion
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:11:16 -0800
Pashtuns are believed to be the largest segmentary lineage society in the world today. They have been living in their defined homeland areas since ages, in a social order loosely defined by the code of Pashtunwali.
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India’s Top Newspapers Battle for Readers’ Hearts and Souls: Choudhury
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:14:53 -0800
The Times of India and The Hindu are the two best-known English newspapers in India. Both are well over 100 years old, and are family-owned. Over the decades their gaze on Indian society and politics has made readers impute to each of them a kind of human aura, identified with the cities from which they are published.
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Obama’s SOTU, authoritarian followership, and civil society: Part II
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:41:42 -0800
lambert strether is an old school blogger from Corrente . Last week in Part I of this piece , I argued that Obama's recent State of The Union speech endorsed a particular model of military organization named the "warrior ethos" by its DOD developers, and that this ethos and American soldier's oath of enlistment ( 10 U.S.C. § 502 ) were in contradiction. That is, one can treat the "mission" and ...
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Angelina Jolie, Meryl Streep Bring Politics, War to Berlin Film Festival
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:30:52 -0800
Angelina Jolie and Meryl Streep are among the stars flying in for this month’s Berlin Film Festival, bringing political movies to an event that promises to mix a dash of Hollywood glamour with hard-hitting, topical themes.
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