Sunday, April 26, 2009

how to ripen kiwifruit



Perhaps I will begin using titles for these posts. I've not used titles before. Titles seem like they could be fun.



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"A Black American"
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Smokey Robinson

Def Poetry Jam, 3rd Season, May 16, 2003





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"There is indeed a Hegelian spirit hovering over much of my work, aimed at reconciling false antitheses. But it is tempered by another, countervailing spirit, which insists on the reality of conflict and opposes premature reconciliation."





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Ted Pushinsky lives in San Francisco, CA:








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"What is the best book for those who want to learn how to read English poetry? Were the ancient Greeks passionate and conflicted or just coldly rational (and why should we care)? How should we interpret landscapes, from Pembrokeshire to Papua New Guinea? And where can we find the most authoritative analysis of what is going on between men and women, not least within universities?

To answer such questions, Times Higher Education asked leading scholars - in disciplines ranging from anthropology and architecture to social policy and international relations - to select a title from their personal canon. Their reflections are an inspirational introduction to a weekly series that will in time cover most of the academic landscape.

Our writers were asked to choose a key text that defined their subject, set their personal academic agendas or even changed their lives. A single formative reading experience can often launch a long and distinguished academic career."



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Photographer Dulce Pinzón was born in Mexico City in 1974: