The first real show of the Tanzquartier season. The week before saw solo performances by Dutch creator Robert Steijn and Lebanese choreographer. There was also…
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Democracy in action. America is truly a model to the world for freedom of the press. Nowhere has this been more clearly demonstrated than in…
Leave a CommentThe fact that someone is a judge, for example, is a social fact — the authority that attaches to judgeship is attached by everyone agreeing that a certain person has the right to make certain statements — “Court is adjourned”, “I sentence you to 5 years in prison” — that have real force in the world. Those statements are not magic; their force comes from the social apparatus backing them up.Ebay has become trustworthy over time because the social fact of its trustworthiness grew with the number of successful transactions and with its ability to find and rectify bad actors.
1 CommentAl Gore delivers a scorcher of a speechOn Global Warming: My friends, the truth is that our circumstances are not only new; they are completely…
1 CommentNot that insurrection would be out of place here after remarks like those of Barbara Bush (GB 1’s wife): What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas…. Other hotels and bars will be able to hire the musicians at flat rates, paying the wages directly to the the council to fund the living costs of all the residents.
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Reuters. A whole New Orleans neighbourhood submerged. The people on the ground know. In the words of a long-time New Orleans resident: Today my sadness…
Leave a CommentAmerican readers wrote in droves to Der Spiegel to express their outrage over German environmental minister Trittin’s admonition to the US government concerning the consequences…
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At last somebody in the US media has had the courage to print a few photographs of the devastation that the United States military has…
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