May 2011
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The Porn Star Name Generator →
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Munger on Love, Money, Profits, and Non-profits -...
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“The honest truth is that no one will ever know exactly what happened....”
– Adrian Newey on Ayrton Senna’s death
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Fair-trade coffee producers often end up poorer -... →
That fair-trade cup of coffee we savour may not only fail to ease the lot of poor farmers, it may actually help to impoverish them, according to a study out recently from Germany’s University of Hohenheim. The study, which followed hundreds of Nicaraguan coffee farmers over a decade, concluded that farmers producing for the fair-trade market “are more often found below the absolute poverty line...
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WatchRon Paul: “The time is right”
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“According to the list makers at Forbes, I am the 50th most powerful person in...”
– Bill Keller [Now, that’s what I call understatement.]
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Lost Sounds Orchestra →
The Lost Sound Orchestra is the ASTRA project orchestra. It is a unique orchestra made by reconstructed ancient instrument coming from the ASTRA research activities. It is the first ensemble in the world composed of only reconstructed instruments of the past. Listening to it is like jumping into the past, in a sound world completely new to our ears.
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Karen Green interview - The Observer →
David Foster Wallace, the most gifted and original American novelist of his generation, took his own life in 2008. His widow, the artist Karen Green, talks of the struggle to deal her loss and her decision to publish his unfinished work, “The Pale King”.
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Harvard Law School. Annual Examinations, 1871-1998 →
This collection presents a complete run of the exams presented by the Harvard Law School to its students from 1871 to 1998, minus 1995/1996 . The Exams are part of the Red Set Collection held by Historical and Special Collections.
[via Volokh]
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“Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
– Henry Louis Mencken
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Why, for a Class of Bribes, the Act of Giving a... →
The paper puts forward a small but novel idea of how we can cut down the incidence of bribery. There are different kinds of bribes and what this paper is concerned with are bribes that people often have to give to get what they are legally entitled to. I shall call these harassment bribes. Suppose an income tax refund is held back from a taxpayer till he pays some cash to the officer. Suppose...
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