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Archive for July, 2008

sabbatical

Posted in Miscellany on July 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I am bound for the Baltic in about two hours, and so there shall be little in the way of updates — even less than in the past two weeks, over which time I have returned to Cambridge with my entire family in tow, and my usual solitary, bookish existence has been somewhat derailed. I [...]

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past & present

Posted in Current Issues, Reflection on July 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

[crossposted to Cliopatria]
I’ve had the good fortune (in a manner of speaking) to be back in Malaysia at a time of great tumult. Forget soap operas, B-grade movies and amateur fanfic: the past few weeks in Malaysia have outdone fiction. The ongoing trial concerning the gruesome murder of a Mongolian girl and her alleged (sexual) [...]

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