Oct 13 2008
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Oct 05 2008
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Ordinary Men : Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Christopher Browning, one of the better known Holocaust scholars today, used evidence from the post-war investigations of Police Battalion 101 to create an image of the “ordinary men” who…
Oct 02 2008
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Mapping the Holocaust
Alberto Giordano, an associate professor at Texas State University-San Marcos, and Anne Knowles, a geographer at Middlebury College in Vermont, have been awarded a $430,000 grant to use computerized…
Sep 10 2008
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Umbrella?
While I tend to support the Web 2.0 movement, I’ve not hidden my dissatisfaction with the majority of sites, and particularly the amount of redundant (and unnecessary) overlap of products. I do,…
Sep 05 2008
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Palin’s brush with cenorship
Having spent the better part of the last two months working on a program for Banned Books Week, I couldn’t help but notice the buzz about Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin, which surfaced…
Aug 18 2008
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Solutions for Darfur activist burnout
Activism n. : a doctrine or practice that emphasizes direct vigorous action especially in support of or opposition to one side of a controversial issue.
Darfur activism has been getting a…
Aug 11 2008
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Auschwitz-Birkenau museum denies artist
The New York Times recently reported that a group of comic book legends — Neal Adams, Joe Kubert and Stan Lee – have teamed up to support Dina Gottliebova Babbitt’s claim to the artwork she…
Aug 04 2008
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Digital Literacy? :: electronic oxymoron
The New York Times ran an article last week on the changing face of literacy in the digital age. The column focuses primarily on the habits of teenagers, college-bound students, and how the Internet…
Aug 03 2008
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Batman: The Dark Knight
Even though Bale’s “Batman voice” continues to annoy me, and the two-villain-structure seemed completely unnecessary, Nolan manages to pull the threads into a fairly exciting action flick.Rating: 4…
Jul 26 2008
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe
The variable (X) is supposed to represent paranormal activity, but in this case it winds up being a rather weak attempt at examining faith.Rating: 3 out of 5 stars