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On Reading Dennis Glover’s “The art of great speeches: and why we remember them”

Nicholas Gruen
February 19, 2012January 2, 2023
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJNM0C-7lPk&feature=player_embedded I bought my daughter a very enjoyable book The art of great speeches: and why we remember them by my friend Dennis Glover for Christmas....
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Democracy and the art of motorcycle maintenance

Don Arthur
February 19, 2012
A tough-talking, motorcycle-riding Texan, sociologist C Wright Mills is about as far from today's stereotype of the latte-sipping left-wing intellectual as you're likely to find....
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One of the challenges facing Greece

Peter Whiteford
February 19, 2012
In 2007 Greece spent 9.9% of GDP on age pensions.  This was the fourth highest level of spending on pensions in the OECD (after Austria,...

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