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Posts on Mar 11, 2014
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Bolivar House Dress Code, 1964
(John Eipper, USA, 03/11/14 1:38 pm)
Bolivar House, founded by Prof. Hilton, was the home of Stanford's Institute of Hispanic-American and Luso-Brazilian Studies, which produced the Hispanic-American Report from 1948-&#
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Thoughts on Surveillance
(John Heelan, UK, 03/11/14 10:41 am)
John Torok (9 March) writes about drone surveillance. Perhaps we should be more worried about digital cameras being built into TV sets and laptops connected to digital highways. As Wikipedia reminds
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Kremlin Takes Over Social Media: *NYT*
(Paul Levine, Denmark, 03/11/14 9:37 am)
What do our Russia-watchers make of Putin's latest move to silence dissent?
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NSA Surveillance; from William Kyburz
(John Eipper, USA, 03/11/14 7:00 am)
William Kyburz (Rochester, NY) sent this response to John Torok's post of 9 March:
JE posed an interesting question when commenting John Torok's post, "Who could ever wan
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Ronald Hilton`s Extraordinary Dream, 1986
(Francisco Wong-Diaz, USA, 03/11/14 6:26 am)
As a believer, it does not surprise me to learn that Ronald Hilton had such a vision at a time his beliefs about religion were in flux. (See JE's post of 9 March.) The Bible itself is full of sto
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Posts on Mar 10, 2014
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WAIS Event of 9 March
(Mary Hilton Huyck, USA, 03/10/14 4:37 pm)
As Francisco Wong-Díaz put it in his description of the WAIS gathering, "great conversation, tasty food, fine wine..." My father would have loved being there. I'm sure he was--i
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WAIS Event of 9 March: More Photos
(Edward Jajko, USA, 03/10/14 1:24 pm)
Great gathering yesterday! Hope you enjoy your Cara Cara orange.
JE comments: The orange (fresh from the Jajko orchards) is much appreciated, Ed! I'm saving it today for an after-school sn
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US-Israel Relations: A Panel Discussion
(Tor Guimaraes, USA, 03/10/14 11:55 am)
Since WAISers have discussed many times before the prostitution of large numbers of our political leaders to special interest groups, I was not surprised but was extremely embarrassed to be an America
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*300: Rise of an Empire
(A. J. Cave, USA, 03/10/14 8:51 am)
On 7 March 2014 the sequel to the 300 (2007) movie opened, 300: Rise of an Empire. This is not breaking news and hardly important when we are faced with serious crisis in Syria
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WAIS Gathering at Martin Packard`s House, 9 March
(Francisco Wong-Diaz, USA, 03/10/14 7:43 am)
I want to express my strong appreciation to Martin Packard for hosting and to John Eipper for all the hard work spent in organizing yesterday's very successful gathering.
It was a beautiful
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