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what i am reading- Cultural Studies: Emoticons Move to the Business World - Cultural StudiesThe emoticon has migrated from the e-mails and texts of teenagers to the correspondence of professionals who pride themselves on their gravitas.By JUDITH NEWMAN
- Empower girls to wear NikeWhy is Nike so concerned about the empowerment of girls in the developing world? There seems to be this idea that we should concentrate aid money on women, because it gives us a better bang for our buck. Women are more likely to use money for the benefit of the entire household, unlike men, who only use their money on alcohol and cigarettes, apparently.Even […]Amanda Thorsteinsson
- New Podcast Series: Voices from the InsideVoices from the Inside October 9 2011 For every expat aid worker who swans in and out, complaining about Delhi belly and inadequate per diem, there are at least ten host country aid workers doing the real work of international aid. They don’t live in hotels, they don’t get special treatment, and they’re the ones who’ll still be there twenty years from now. […]Alanna Shaikh
- Why I won’t hate on machine gun preachersToday, faithful readers might be in for a surprise reaction.A drug-dealing, leathered, whiskered biker not only finds God but a cause — a brutal rebel force kidnapping and enslaving African children. He starts with an orphanage, but ends with a personal war, running mercenary missions to recapture the children and hunt down their captors.If it sounds all too […]Chris Blattman
- The “colorful” women of KaramojaBy Dan Moshenberg Somebody call Paul Gauguin. The site of exotic exploration of bare naked, happy “backward”, “traditional”, and yet, magically, beautiful women has moved from Tahiti to Karamoja, in northeastern Uganda. According to media responses to the exhibition, “Colours of Karamoja”, held a couple of weeks ago at the MishMash Gallery, in Kampala, the […]dmosh
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