Ah Beijing, you ol’ trickster you. As if the struggle over appearances in the interminable run-up to the Olympics wasn’t enough, you go ahead and pour more fuel on the mediatic fire after an astounding opening ceremony. With revelations of high-level officials being mean to little girls and computer-generated fireworks footage, what else could the [...]
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Sometimes, on quiet afternoons, I envy those for whom God, King and Country were (or still are) a reality. For better or worse, things made sense. There were causes to die for. Good and evil existed, mostly to fight each other. People had roles, as stifling as they may have been. Progress was real, objective [...] A few weeks ago, I was in Europe (well, I was also in Europe again last week, but that’s a whole other story). I had a job interview lasting two hours in London which necessitated me going there for the day from Brussels by train. That was an exhausting day. Soon after, I was asked if [...] I handed in my dissertation last Wednesday, and since then I have been wandering about feeling lighter than air. For the first time in much longer than I can remember, I don’t have some major deadline lurking in my thoughts, ruining my every waking moment by incessantly reminding me that I should be working. Since [...] I’ve recently gotten down to business concerning my dissertation research, as summers have a particular way of flying by too fast, and this is definitely not a situation in which I can let the deadline in August creep up on me while I’m sitting out in the sun. Two months is plenty of time to [...] In case you are confused with the title of this post, I have not suddenly become a Republican (heck, I’m not even American). Rather, I’m referring to the stellar, long running tv series. To be honest, I haven’t seen a new episode in years; my love for Law and Order is based solely on the [...] I apologize in advance for the rather suspect quality of this post, but I have finally been felled by the cold/flu bug that has been residing on my rez floor for the past week. Nevertheless, your intrepid urban wanderer still managed to take a walk along the Thames to get some fresh air, hoping to [...] One of the benefits of attending LSE is the ability to attend a near infinite amount of guest lectures, speeches, discussion panels and debates. Recently, Tom Ridge of US Dept. of Homeland Security fame came by campus to give a speech. It’s pretty easy to tell when an important government official is around, considering the [...] “Shanghai is modern.” Many of you, I’m sure, have heard these sorts of statements before. Pick up a newspaper, read the internet or spend approximately three seconds in China, and chances are you will be treated to heavy use of the words ‘modern’, ‘developed’, ‘undeveloped’ and ‘developing’. Countries, regions and [...] After a month-long hiatus, the Ape is back with a vengeance. To you, my neglected fan(s) (whose numbers have now likely dwindled to nothing given this site’s mini-hibernation), I offer a treat: not one new post, but SEVEN. That’s right: starting tomorrow night, I will put up at least one new post every day until [...] |
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