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Confronting The Beautiful Mess of Adult Life

New York Doormen a Varied Group - NYTimes.com

Shedding some light on the sometimes peculiar profession of doormen (or doorwomen) in New York..

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/nyregion/22doormen.html?hp

Dirt off his shoulders: Barack Obama and the question of race - The National Newspaper

Some thoughts and insight into David Remnick's new Obama bio, "The Bridge." The author here also spent time in Hawaii as an African- American in Hawaii, and thus adds interesting points about what forces were likely at work in young Obama's head when he was crafting his identity, as he was to a large degree isolated from the racial overtones at play for his future wife in Princeton, for instance.

Worth a read.

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100416/REVIEW/704159980

Social science on terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan : The New Yorker

A profound, timely and cutting insight into how to wage productive counterinsurgency, in light of both the tools of social science and the limitations of overextending said "science" beyond it's immediately useful, small-scale context. In short, the author concludes rightly that counterinsurgency is never quick and dirty, but mostly long, bloody, and often by the seat of the pants.

Finally, a sober and refreshingly non-over-specialized approach to an object of critical importance in our times.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/04/26/100426crbo_books_leman...

How do morals change? : Article : Nature

Never thought deliberate persuasion could go beyond memes to drive the evolution of morals, LOL. A thought-provoking elaboration on what's missin from the discourse, mainly a rational approach to what influences our rhetorical moral fibre with age. Travel, exposure to new people and ideas are arguably at least as powerful as genetic factors and that eternally damnable foil, human nature.

Your thoughts on the subject?

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7288/full/464490a.html


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Yuri Kruman
J.D., 2009
Cardozo School of Law

A Passage to Forster | The Weekly Standard

Some interesting observations on E.M. Forster and his life and writing, as reflected by the people who admire and by those who loathe his sensibilities.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/passage-forster?nopager=1


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Yuri Kruman
J.D., 2009
Cardozo School of Law

the line - bookforum.com / in print

Great fiction-based insight into the phenomemon of the queue in Soviet Russia, illuminating the quintessential social space in said context. Definitely worth a read.

http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/017_01/5371


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Yuri Kruman
J.D., 2009
Cardozo School of Law

Reminiscences of Justice Stevens' former clerks

Stories from the Supreme Court, Justice Stevens' chambers. Especially informative if your ambition is to clerk at SCOTUS someday in the future... 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/opinion/11stevens.html?hp

Book Review Preview - A Ticket to the Circus - A Memoir - By Norris Church Mailer - NYTimes.com

It's definitely a mystery (outside of the obvious thrill of being with a brilliant and interesting man) why Norris Church Mailer stayed with Mailer despite his womanizing, self-centered ways, and for so long. Nevertheless, hers is a brilliant story, in it's own right.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/books/review/Senior-t.html?hp


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Yuri Kruman
J.D., 2009
Cardozo School of Law

Posted April 9, 2010

Saving Yourself

On the conflicting attitudes of Americans about thrift, and where the anti-thrift, consumerist craze has gotten us...

http://wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&essay_id=543510


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Yuri Kruman
J.D., 2009
Cardozo School of Law

Posted April 9, 2010

Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » The Rise of the New Paternalism

Illuminating essay in the rise of soft paternalism, and the reasons for why we should be concerned about where the movement is making inroads on all levels of government and policy circles...

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/04/05/glen-whitman/the-rise-of-the-new-pater...


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Yuri Kruman
J.D., 2009
Cardozo School of Law

Posted April 7, 2010