The area that is now Albania fell to Ottoman rule in the late 15th century. At some point in the 16th century, the head of a Kosovar family named Zogolli traveled to Albania, and was named hereditary governor of the small district of Mat. The...
Month: September 2007
Coming off a loss at Kentucky last week, Louisville managed to lose to Syracuse today, at home. Way to end that national championship speculation quick, guys....Notre Dame next faces 4-0.
Like Cara, I think I'll pass. Any allegedly feminist project that divides women into the category of "good" and "bad" based on how often they have sex, or uses the.
Yglesias says what needs to be said about Andrew Sullivan's meditation on Marc Bloch:But on top of that, though there clearly is a sense in which current American politics is very polarized, there's another sense in which our levels of polarization are almost trivial compared...
New York is rejecting federal money for "abstinence-only" sex "education." Good. (Meanwhile -- perhaps in a bid to attract the bullshit-libertarian vote he's alienated with his opposition to deposing regimes.
In case there was still any question about whether the anti-contraception position of Catholic hospitals who don't want to provide emergency contraception to rape victims (but certainly don't feel so.
A good analysis of the Manhattan [HT: DJA], which among other advantages over the martini has never evolved into "whiskey up" and, even more importantly, has never been re-defined to accommodate vodka. I also like the variant called the "Brooklyn" they serve at Chestnut in...
Tom Hilton observes the occasion. Now, I consider myself something of an expert on weird holidays -- tomorrow is Hobbit Day and Elephant Appreciation Day, by the way -- but.
In honor of Yom Kippur, and the 34th anniversary of the beginning of the Yom Kippur War, I think it's appropriate to review Abraham Rabinovich's The Yom Kippur War. Rabinovich.
Progress!The portion of Baghdad in which Iraqi security forces are in control with minimal help from the American military has grown only slightly in recent months, to just over 8 percent, despite an overall decline in insurgent violence in the capital, a senior U.S. commander...
The big news around the office this week was this report from the Center for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington; it ranks the "most corrupt" members of Congress. There are.
This has been another edition etc.:The whole fracas of Petraeus, Crocker, MoveOn, etc. has had, to a good first approximation, no impact whatsoever on anything of any significance. Bush continues.