by Innan Sasaki The first wild rose of the summer has bloomed. It is early May. The wild pink roses are resilient if fragile, modest but charming and, like the people here, tough. I arrive early in the morning. The city is quiet and cold. The morning traffic hasn’t yet started. I wait for the […]
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by Randall Collins Most famous of all the Emperors of China was Ying Cheng, King of the state of Ch’in, who united the Warring States and took the title Ch’in Shih-Huang-ti, the First Emperor. The thousands of life-sized terracotta warriors buried with him are described by tour guides as the Eighth Wonder of the World.
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by Henry Mintzberg “I hope your visit to the refugee camp is not too depressing.” This was just an innocent comment in a message that arrived on my final day. Yet that last word leaped off the page, indeed coalesced my thoughts about the entire experience. When I showed it to Abbas, my host, he laughed.
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by Philip Stiles Everyone’s piling in on me, but it’s not my fault. And if you want to know the truth, I’m the only one who seems to be trying to rectify the situation. I’ve cycled as far as the riverfront, and then back out west to the A10 this morning, big distances, pasting posters
by Mark de Rond As a child and for as long as I can remember there hung above my bed a sign that said ‘Lord, let my prayer come before Thee.’ I have no memory of how I came to have it but still remember how comforting these words were as I made my peace
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by Ruth Newman Bert the porter was telling off some tourists for walking on the perfect lawn as Lesley passed through the gates to Goodesford College. The unnerved sightseers were having a hard time understanding Bert’s thick fenland accent, and had to be rescued by their tour guide. Bert turned back to the Porters’ Lodge,
by Brian Pentland Since the dawn of time we’ve used the axe People use tools to do tasks Now people use digital artifacts People use tools to do tasks So-ci-o-ma-ter-i-al People use tools to do tasks It sounds so ethereal People use tools
by Yiannis Gabriel You have heard the one about the soldiers who got lost during a snow blizzard in the Alps but eventually managed to find their way back to base camp, thanks to a map in one of the soldiers’ pockets. You have heard the one about the soldiers who got lost during a
by Brian Pentland Thank you all for coming You’re lucky to be here Welcome to my TED talk Enlightenment is near Don’t wanna overstate my case But the facts are very clear The science will persuade you To make my career It’s blindingly obvious, A fundamental truth If this talk is slick enough Then you
by Neil Stott Not many people know that. With the ten-yard stare of an academic who had delivered the same material to an MBA class since 1922 he yelled; “hamsters to the Southwest, thousands of em!” Some people just want to watch the world burn. Or blow the bloody doors off. I am not sure
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