history

Quoted: A photographer who has made the most of inside access to document revolutionary change discusses what it is like to see history unfold, from the outside.

If I make it all the way through a book by Jung, this might be it. This article is informative (and looonng), but it plays the hype card a lot. Still, if you have a smidgen of an interest in Jung, read on....

Quoted: What the unearthing of Carl Jung’s Red book is doing to the Jungs and the Jungians (and maybe your dreams).

Very cool story about a Terp great. Liz, you'll have to forward it to Penelope ; )

Quoted: Later, looking at the collection, he said: “Not often, but on occasion I feel guilty. I have all this because I run real fast and I tackle people. I recognize why I’ve been able to do this. It’s not all because of me or my family or my teammates or my coaches. It’s more because of the faces on the walls in my basement.”

Tragic!

Quoted: This could be the greatest tragedy of the recession for the U.K.: Humble British pubs -- the kind of place Britons can go for a relaxing pint (or five) and chips on the way home from work -- are closing at a rate of 52 a week, according to the British Beer and Pub Association. That's 2,377 pubs closed, and about 24,000 jobs lost in the past year.

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Quoted: OG Version

Interesting (but very long) article on the financial crisis.

Quoted: New details of how Britain would have been governed in the event of a nuclear war from the 1960s into the 1990s have been disclosed with the publication of the secret War Book. The document, over 16 chapters, gives precise plans and instructions for what would have been done by officialdom during the build-up to an international confrontation and after the bombs started falling.

quoted: When we try to resolve the problems of the present, we often look to the past. One chapter from the unfinished past is, without doubt, the project of communism. What can cultural revolution have in common with potential solutions to the current financial crisis? Today the world’s most esteemed economists and sociologists assert that the key to solving the economic crisis lies not in some new mechanical device, but rather in the creativity of as many people as possible and the development of new ideas. The idea of the socialist cultural revolution was, in fact, based on the deliberate education of the masses: on giving them the knowledge and skills they needed to participate as fully as possible in the public affairs of the community.