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In the News (Sun 15 Nov 09)

  
  Lindsay Waters, Reading Babel and Babylon
Of course, the best researchers are flagrant scofflaws about disciplinary boundaries, but most of the rest of us scoff them at our peril.
Ever since the incidents at Tian An Men in 1989, I have been drawn to Asia and China, as if to counter my own Europhilia.
This is a great moment for freer developments of ties between China and the U.S., for example, because, while neither government is interested in fostering ties among the humanists from both countries, they also are not dictating how contact happens.
www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no11/Waters.html   (4109 words)

  
 Relevant History: June 2005
Because unless I really remember the scene in the movies wrong, or they shot it in another station, platform 9 looks nothing like I expected.
Still, what little Europhilia I have tends to flower most fully on trains.
The Danish train system is fantastic, and while I know there have been huge complaints about the privatization of British Rail, the trains here still seem much better than anything in the US-- SEPTA and New Jersey Transit, which I spent years riding, can't hold a candle to these, nor can Amtrak.
askpang.typepad.com /relevant_history/2005/06/index.html   (8535 words)

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