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		<title>No Principal On The Playground: NY Magazine Worries About Pakistan&#8217;s Intractable Anarchy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I wrote: &#8220;In one way or the other, every one realizes or refers to the Pakistan’s central problem: that it has no recognizable statesman who has the power and legitimacy to lead its people through the mess it is in right now.&#8221; The New York Times Magazine expresses the same concern [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clicheniche.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1436315&amp;post=189&amp;subd=clicheniche&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Search And Social Media Are The Same</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drunkenfilosofer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[internet technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot of debate about Twitter being the Facebook killer and Facebook being the Google killer and Google being the Microsoft killer and so on. There&#8217;s been some back and forth between the media and the blogosphere and people like Eric Schmidt about the true business worth of all these companies and whether Schmidt  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clicheniche.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1436315&amp;post=186&amp;subd=clicheniche&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Economist Hook Sentence du Jour: Iran&#8217;s Presidential Elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drunkenfilosofer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[geopolitics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been a fond reader of the Economist for a while, partly for the dry wit and erudition evident in the writing and partly for the fun of discovering what I call the &#8220;hook sentences&#8221; that go into many of the articles: statements that are tossed out with such carelessness that one is tempted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clicheniche.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1436315&amp;post=179&amp;subd=clicheniche&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paying Tribute To The Act Of Creation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drunkenfilosofer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[what to be thankful for]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[God, this is so cheesy, but it needs to be said. When you are seeing or reading or listening to something that is beautifully expressed, and that gives you the chills or the goosebumps or that makes you really laugh or cry or just have a good feeling somewhere inside you, you have to give [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clicheniche.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1436315&amp;post=176&amp;subd=clicheniche&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After Death, Everything Is In Focus</title>
		<link>http://clicheniche.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/after-death-everything-is-in-focus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drunkenfilosofer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The classic short story, publishable in innumerable journals: death arrives, preferably unexpectedly and preferably to someone young and undeserving, and the bereaved experience a moment of epiphany. This story will, if written tolerably well, get published just about anywhere. The death can be imagined, or there could be a metaphorical reference of the passing away [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clicheniche.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1436315&amp;post=171&amp;subd=clicheniche&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dirty Cages Where The White Tiger Prowls</title>
		<link>http://clicheniche.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/the-dirty-cages-where-the-white-tiger-prowls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drunkenfilosofer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aravind adiga]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The precise cliche with which to begin trashing the cliche-ridden nonsense that is Aravind Adiga&#8217;s Man Booker-prize winning novel, The White Tiger, eludes me. Shall I ask what might have possessed the prize awarding committee? Shall I talk about the obvious faddishness of writing about India and its poverty? Shall I worry about how literary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clicheniche.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1436315&amp;post=164&amp;subd=clicheniche&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mexican Concept: Opening Up The Taco Of Unequal Relations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading a random blog by a conservative writer in South Bend, Indiana, where I read a rant about the current state of the U.S.-Mexican border. It made me think about a few issues around the border &#8212; I have been personally affected by the deteriorating civic security apparatus in Mexico recently, in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clicheniche.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1436315&amp;post=165&amp;subd=clicheniche&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter To A Now Defunct Wine Bar</title>
		<link>http://clicheniche.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/an-open-letter-to-a-now-defunct-wine-bar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drunkenfilosofer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear London Wine Bar, why? Why do you exist, when your collection of wines is something beyond a travesty, a sin, a crime, a blot on the face of this planet? My friends and I tasted six of the dozen or so wines you had available by the glass, and they were all nightmares. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clicheniche.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1436315&amp;post=162&amp;subd=clicheniche&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes On Multi-Cultural Experience: Music And Growing Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drunkenfilosofer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cultural heritage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a long time, as a writer, I have resisted writing about multi-cultural issues, or from a multi-cultural perspective. I thought for all this while that the reason I did not want to write like this was because I was not drawn to multi-cultural topics, and there was also, for me, something naive and hackneyed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clicheniche.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1436315&amp;post=157&amp;subd=clicheniche&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Through Online Search: Some Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://clicheniche.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/learning-through-online-search-some-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drunkenfilosofer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I searched for the phrase &#8220;calories per dollar&#8221; after having calculated the amount I spent on a recent grocery purchase. At the end of the second page of results, I found a link to the blog Marginal Revolution and was intrigued about what this left-leaning blog might have to say about the &#8220;calorie per dollar&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clicheniche.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1436315&amp;post=149&amp;subd=clicheniche&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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