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Edit The Guardian 24 Apr 2016
Martin Rowson cartoon . Letters page online . ‘In my mind’s eye’ . Recipe corrections . Saturday puzzler. At 91, I can’t have many more elections to waste my lifelong Labour vote on, so I am enjoying the current political scene as best I can ... Hilda Hayden. Newland, Worcestershire ... Nick Bion. Reading ... In 1335, Guido da Vigevano, in a treatise on engineering, explained the advantage of illustration over verbal description thus ... Alan Wall ... London ... ....
photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster
US President Barack Obama, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are photographed as they meet at Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover, Germany, Sunday, April 24, 2016.

President Obama Begins Farewell Tour, Talks Legacy

Edit Inquisitr 24 Apr 2016
After eight groundbreaking years in office, during a recent overseas trip, Barack Obama’s farewell tour has officially begun ... However, Obama’s London excursion was highlighted by Saturday’s Lindley Hall meeting to address questions fielded by a group of U.S ... responded. ... A satisfied Obama reiterated his nuclear treatise had effectively diverted world crisis, while avoiding destructive warfare ... Barack Obama....

Comic charm in Russian dreams, tutus, fake forests (Massey University)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Apr 2016
(Source. Massey University). Creative writing papers at Massey University helped Sacha Jones realise the numerous notebooks she had filled with stories of her improbable Sydney childhood, might become a book for publication ... The author at age 11. Sally to Sacha ... She has a PhD thesis from the University of Auckland in political theory, partly inspired by her father who spent his life writing a treatise in development economic theory....

At London youth event, Obama pushes diplomacy over force

Edit St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Apr 2016
LONDON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Saturday urged the next generation of British leaders to give serious thought to how they solve problems, turning a light-hearted question about priorities for his successor into a treatise on his preference for… ... ....

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson review: challenging and profound

Edit The Irish Times 23 Apr 2016
In the same week I reread Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts I downloaded a Granta podcast with the American writer and activist Rebecca Solnit. Solnit writes about place, politics and gender among other things, and describes her own work as “anti-memoir” ... Like Solnit, she has created her own word for this oeuvre. autotheory, which is part philosophical manifesto, gender treatise, fragmented novel, memoir, love letter and art critique ... ....

Mitchell: Writer puts a spotlight on the South Side

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 22 Apr 2016
I recently caught up with Natalie Y. Moore, the author of “The South Side,” the latest treatise on Chicago’s infamous brand of segregation. Moore, an award-winning journalist, is the South Side bureau reporter for WBEZ. Her life has been a whirlwind since the release of her book exploring institutionalized racism and how it has affected neighborhoods now stigmatized as high-crime ... We accept it as just the way it is, like air and water ... ....

15 Great Prince Songs That Were Hits for Other Artists

Edit Rollingstone 22 Apr 2016
He turned his personal treatises on sexual persona, spiritual angst and social unrest into a universal art that spoke to millions, no matter ......

The Age of Genius: A.C. Grayling on when thinking left behind the medieval times

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 22 Apr 2016
But, for Grayling, the big puzzle is that all this – the scientific revolution, the Newtonian synthesis, the birth of modern democracy and the parliamentary system that saw the banishment of the "divine right of kings" articulated in Locke's treatises on government, the emergence of scientific method in the writings of Descartes and ......

Ben Watt has a mature view of love on "Fever Dream"

Edit The Washington Times 21 Apr 2016
Ben Watt, "Fever Dream" (Unmade Road/Caroline). Ben Watt's new chapter as singer-songwriter, an endeavor first launched before he and wife Tracey Thorn formed Everything But The Girl, offers a mature treatise on love and the passing of time. Everything But The Girl may be on a permanent hiatus, but "Fever ... ....

President and CEO Joel Seligman Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences (University of Rochester)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
(Source. University of Rochester). April 20, 2016. University President and CEO Joel Seligman is one of 213 new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. (University photo / J. Adam Fenster) ... Robert Witmer, Jr ... securities law. He coauthored, with the late Louis Loss and with Troy Paredes, the 11-volume Securities Regulation, the leading treatise in the field, and is author of The Transformation of Wall Street ... H ... Kenan Jr ... Category....

Prince was a singular artist whose death breaks our hearts

Edit Ohio 21 Apr 2016
I can’t. Honestly, I just can’t ... If you want to peruse his bio, you can find many rundowns of his incredible, influential, hit-filled career ... For real ... And, once again, I’ve still got no words of wisdom, no existential explorations or treatise on the shining stars who touch us with us their greatness only to leave us too soon, to wallow and revel in what they left behind ... R.I.P. Prince Rogers Nelson ... ....

Jundt Art Museum Exhibits Wall-Size Mural By American Artist Hilaire Hiler (Gonzaga University)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
(Source. Gonzaga University). Likely dating to the artist's time in Paris in the late 1920s, this work uses textiles and fabrics to present Hilaire Hiler's early interest in color harmony, design, and psychology. SPOKANE, Wash ... Paul, Minnesota, was an acclaimed painter, costume and set designer, muralist, jazz musician, psychologist, teacher, and writer of theoretical treatises on color and abstract design ... Original Document ... (noodl....

Credit Bureaus Were the NSA of the 19th Century

Edit The Atlantic 21 Apr 2016
A detail of the facade of the headquarters of French bank Credit Lyonnais in Paris Mel Langsdon / Reuters ... R.G ... * * * ... * * * ... character ... Although Thomas Meagher’s 176-page treatise attacking the commercial credit bureau system is as in harsh tone, he criticizes the system less on moral grounds and more that it didn’t work ... ... Meagher’s melodramatic treatise suggested that the end of the commercial credit-reporting system was nigh ... ... * * * ... ....
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