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		<title>John Adams: Book Review of the McCullough Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an old book review I&#8217;ve written up: and I&#8217;m posting on the blog because, well, its better than letting it molder on my desktop.
John Adams Review
McCullough’s John Adams is a worthy read. McCullough has the art of storytelling; he knows how to make his subject powerful, compelling and relatable. By the end, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kingsandcabbages.wordpress.com&blog=2406457&post=70&subd=kingsandcabbages&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>District 9: To Teach or Not to Teach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But really, do aliens have to be repulsive looking robots? Do we have to show up their physical ugliness by worse deeds (we are psychically, morally repulsive, etc?). At some level, this is a failure of imagination; we can't imagine an alternative, and that is why we are foreclosing other possible futures.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kingsandcabbages.wordpress.com&blog=2406457&post=62&subd=kingsandcabbages&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kingsandcabbages.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/district-9-to-teach-or-not-to-teach/</link>
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		<title>Budget Cuts = Civil Society Cuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a grad student, it&#8217;s impossible not to notice the massive downsizing of academia. Forced faculty/staff furloughs, bureau-induced early retirements, downsizing of departmental budgets, curtailed admissions, the American university is simply not what it used to be. As the OC register lamented, the UC system is facing transformation as  &#8220;either a factory for BA students [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kingsandcabbages.wordpress.com&blog=2406457&post=44&subd=kingsandcabbages&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kingsandcabbages.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/budget-cuts-civil-society-cuts/</link>
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		<title>Gorgeousness; Visit South Africa for Eyeball Therapy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Africa is incredibly beautiful; before going there, the only things I knew about it that Charlize Theron came from there, its the parsley bed for Hollywood stars with a yen for international motherhood, and that you have a lot of droughts and dying people there. Its stereotypical to fall in love with Africa (Isak Dinesen). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kingsandcabbages.wordpress.com&blog=2406457&post=35&subd=kingsandcabbages&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hello South Africa: Thinking about Color Lines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This August, I traveled to South Africa; it was an amazing trip. So much to see, so much to feel&#8212;and to eat. We were with an book tour that visited around six or seven cities&#8211;including a foray into Botswana&#8212;over a hectic 19 days. I traveled to Jo&#8217;burg, Pretoria, Louis Trichart, Mafikeng, Port Elizabeth, and Durban. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kingsandcabbages.wordpress.com&blog=2406457&post=13&subd=kingsandcabbages&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Compasses and Extremism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Reflections on Durant&#8217;s Age of Faith)
So many definitions of extremism. Ironically, they&#8217;re framed in  the binaries of comparison so loved by public media and that are inherently—extreme. Is extremism the opposite of reason? Is it the opposite of Western?
History tells that extremism can be found in avowed atheists as well as men of God. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kingsandcabbages.wordpress.com&blog=2406457&post=8&subd=kingsandcabbages&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kingsandcabbages.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/compasses-and-extremism/</link>
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		<title>Bhool Bhulaiya: Bollywood&#8217;s Retro Conservativsm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished watching one of Bollywood&#8217;s mega hits of 2007: Bhool Bhulaiya. The production values were fantabulous . . . Bollywood certainly doesn&#8217;t suffer from underfunded cinema budgets. The movie opens with a young Indian prince returning home from (where else?) America with his mod scod wife to take up residence in his haunted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kingsandcabbages.wordpress.com&blog=2406457&post=7&subd=kingsandcabbages&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kingsandcabbages.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/bhool-bulaiya-bollywoods-retro-conservativsm/</link>
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		<title>The Great Debaters; Film Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past week, I went to see The Great Debators with a friend. The opening shot announced that this was indeed a &#8220;big&#8221; film; the smooth, panoramic shot of the Southern Texas&#8217; forests and mangroves not only set the scene, but spoke volumes about the production values, the expertise, and the money behind the movie. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kingsandcabbages.wordpress.com&blog=2406457&post=4&subd=kingsandcabbages&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kingsandcabbages.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/the-great-debaters-film-review/</link>
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		<title>Benazir and the real tragedy of Pakistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was like a replay of another celebrity death. As when Diana died, there was the morning wakeup, the hurried relating of the news, and shortly afterwards, the television blare filtering through the house. Montages of an elegant woman killed in a brutal fashion. Death&#8217;s shock factor of &#8220;now she&#8217;s here and now she&#8217;s not&#8221;, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kingsandcabbages.wordpress.com&blog=2406457&post=3&subd=kingsandcabbages&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kingsandcabbages.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/benazir-and-the-real-tragedy-of-pakistan/</link>
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