Sunday, January 30, 2011

Sunday morning roundup

What to do with Belarus and Tunisia. Don't ask about Egypt. In their own words: Baby Doc and Yanukovich. Also: An Arab identity develops around the crises of governance, and Tunisia's excesses remain on display.

Turkey's Kurds campaign for language rights.

Progress against the kamlari system--indentured servitude for girls--in Nepal.

You already knew that our sugar policy is f*ed up.

Is Google losing the war on spam and losing business to content farms?

Pearlstein on Davos, globalization, and inequality. See also what Moises Naim has to say.

Chew very gently whenever you're eating something that may, but shouldn't, contain an olive pit.

Virginia students increasingly find themselves shut out of Virginia's top schools.

DC drivers had a very rough week.

A preschooler is shut out of daycare for a month for having had one accident too many.

Americans are increasingly eschewing singular identity labels.

Thin people make more money.

Yes, more doors, more standing room. F* no to "kid-themed seat covers or wall decorations, absence of mid-aisle poles, etc." You do realize that mid-aisle poles are essential on a crowded train so people have something to hold on to??

Someone at the Post is on crack--"Stomp" was amazing, so much better than what's conveyed in this review.

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