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Archive for May 26th, 2009
Beckett in Bookforum
“Beckett’s letters reveal an author warm, playful, and unfailingly polite”
The Letters of Samuel Beckett got a stellar review in the current issue of Bookforum. Read it here >>
The Climate-Industrial Complex
The tight relationship between the groups echoes the relationship among weapons makers, researchers and the U.S. military during the Cold War. President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned about the might of the “military-industrial complex,” cautioning that “the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” He worried that “there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties.”
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