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The People's Court - RAW

by Colin Rule, posted on April 29, 2008 - 4:46pm.

Jeff Bercovici on Conde Nast's Portfolio.com: "Over the weekend, I stumbled across what appears to be a stealth-marketing campaign for a new website, People's Court Raw.

Trying to find common ground on Tibet

by Colin Rule, posted on April 19, 2008 - 11:45am.

Shaila Dewan in the NYT: "Ms. Wang, who had friends on both sides, tried to get the two groups to talk, participants said. She began traversing what she called “the middle ground,” asking the groups’ leaders to meet and making bargains.

Divided We Fall

by Colin Rule, posted on April 17, 2008 - 6:20pm.

Kristof in the Times today: "To understand your feelings about Wednesday night’s debate, consider the Dartmouth-Princeton football game in 1951. That bitterly fought contest was the subject of a landmark study about how our biases shape our understanding of reality.
 

The inviolable right to a day in court

by Colin Rule, posted on March 30, 2008 - 9:39am.

Randy Cohen, the NYT Magazine Ethicist, today: " The gynecologist I’ve seen for seven years has begun requiring patients to waive their right to a day in court and to accept binding arbitration to settle any potential disputes, or she will not treat them.

How to Disagree

by Colin Rule, posted on March 30, 2008 - 9:28am.

Very interesting post from Paul Graham: "The web is turning writing into a conversation. Twenty years ago, writers wrote and readers read. The web lets readers respond, and increasingly they do—in comment threads, on forums, and in their own blog posts.
 

A deeper deadening

by Colin Rule, posted on March 26, 2008 - 3:28pm.

Sean Wilsey, reviewing Service Included by Phoebe Domrosch, in the New York Times Book Review: "Depending on your constitution you will revel or recoil at much of the excess described therein. Perhaps both.
 

One last thing on Obama's speech...

by Colin Rule, posted on March 19, 2008 - 2:59pm.

...he wrote it himself. No advisors, no speechwriters, no crib notes. Amazing.

"your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreams..."

by Colin Rule, posted on March 18, 2008 - 8:52am.

From Obama's speech on race in America that he delivered today: "For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism.

New Book: Eye of the Storm Leadership

by Colin Rule, posted on March 14, 2008 - 11:01am.

A few years ago, my friend Peter Adler hosted a meeting on Capitol Hill entitled "Political Courage and the Power of Bridge-Building" that involved some notable participants from the beltway scene.

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