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		<title>120% Work</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google office, Zurich by Abe Walker Abstract This article takes as its central object of study Google’s innovative time off program, colloquially known as ‘20 Percent Time’. This program represents a radical departure from conventional approaches to organizing the workday, and is quickly gaining traction in the technology sector and beyond. Under the directive of management, Google programmers devote 20% ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Eight Ball&#8217; by Claudia Emerson</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Claudia Emerson It was fifty cents a game beneath exhausted ceiling fans, the smoke’s old spiral. Hooded lights burned distant, dull. I was tired, but you insisted on one more, so I chalked the cue—the bored blue—broke, scratched. It was always possible for you to run the table, leave me nothing. But I recall the easy shot you missed, ]]></description>
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		<title>Free Content</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Gregory Jusdanis “Imagine a world without art.” This could easily have been the message greeting visitors to the Wikipedia site on January 18, 2012, when it went silent in protest against legislation proposed in Congress (Stop Online Privacy Act, or SOPA). For Wikipedia and Google the issue is “free information” in the “open” internet. But it could also be ]]></description>
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		<title>Victorian Poetry and the Shock of the Belated</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Daniel Roberts: DFW at Brown</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Foster Wallace by Daniel Roberts There’s this thing that happens to people who read David Foster Wallace, the novelist and essayist who would have turned 50 years old today. It’s the reason his literary reputation so fervently exploded the moment he died: those who like his work don’t just champion the writing, but seem to become personally enamored of ]]></description>
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		<title>Come, Come</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966) on the verb &#8216;to come&#8217;.]]></description>
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		<title>Stuart Elden on Coriolanus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Stuart Elden William Shakespeare’s late tragedy Coriolanus is often seen as one of his most political plays. Set in ancient Rome, and based upon the life of the title character as written by Plutarch, the resonances with Shakespeare’s own time have often been remarked upon, especially in terms of the corn riots and resultant popular uprisings in the English ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Digital Killed the Video Store&#8217; by Gary Dop</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Mummy Returns</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, 20th Century Fox, 2011 From The New York Review of Books: In the spring of 2001, at the Conservative Party Conference in Plymouth, Margaret Thatcher made a joke. She was then seventy-five, and had been out of office for more than ten years, much of it spent as the hectoring conscience ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The International&#8217; by Roannie and Oko</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Under Western Eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deng Xiaoping and Ezra Vogel From London Review of Books: Books about China, popular and scholarly, continue to pour off the presses. In this ever expanding literature, there is a subdivision that could be entitled ‘Under Western Eyes’. The larger part of it consists of works that appear to be about China, or some figure or topic from China, but ]]></description>
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		<title>In Absolute Darkness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>1337</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Honors, Warner Bros. Pictures, 1994 From The American Scholar: The first disadvantage of an elite education, as I learned in my kitchen that day, is that it makes you incapable of talking to people who aren’t like you. Elite schools pride themselves on their diversity, but that diversity is almost entirely a matter of ethnicity and race. With respect ]]></description>
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		<title>Hectic Zen, Rhetoric and Composition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Andrea Teti: Egypt One Year On</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Street graffiti, &#8220;Tantawi is Mubarak&#8221;. Photograph by Gigi Ibrahim by Andrea Teti One year after the ousting of Hosni Mubarak, it is difficult to conclude that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the military junta which took over from the former President, are anything but the hard core of Mubarak’s regime, fighting for its own survival. Just as ]]></description>
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		<title>“No, nothing bad”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chorus, Jeffrey Michael Harp From The Threepenny Review: For such a heavyweight literary project, which might be expected to hedge its bets, Your Face Tomorrow gambles heavily on the narrator’s attraction for the reader. Its three volumes unfold with the searching, cherishing, recursive aimlessness of intimate talk. The style can appear lightly confiding and undefended, as if no sooner is ]]></description>
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		<title>France as Tourist Brothel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bercy Village, Paris, described by locals as &#8221;faux French village in the heart of Paris.&#8221;  by James Warner A prophet-provacateur faithful to French traditions of lucidity, sensuality, and alienation, Houellebecq believes we are all doomed. The Map and the Territory continues his great project of exposing the limits of individualism. Michel Houellebecq condemns the soullessness of our consumer society, yet paradoxically ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Norumbega Park&#8217; by Anthony Giardina</title>
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		<title>The Russian Origins of the First World War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Culture is Left</title>
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