Cosmopolitanism
When the Cynic philosopher Diogenes of Sinope (c. 412–c. 323 BCE) was asked where he came from, he said "I am a citizen of the world" (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of ...
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We read the New Yorker's 10,000-word Bloomberg piece over lunch (as Slate says, so you don't have to). No news in it, though Anthony seems to be trying to convince us otherwise.
But this struck us...
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While CityCenter's hotel towers rose out of the ground, the neighboring Cosmopolitan resort seemingly had just a fence surrounding a deep hole.But what looked like a stalled project really was the ...
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Singapore's elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew said Friday Japan
cannot take the lead role in regional security because Asian
countries still mistrust Japan decades after the end of World War II.
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Hong Kong (dpa) - A 24-year-old Hong Kong mother was Wednesday
beginning an eight month jail term for abandoning her newborn baby
son on a grocery store doorstep six hours a...
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Hong Kong (dpa) - As Chinese visitors flood in to Hong Kong for
the Lunar New Year holiday, the numbers tell a tale of unrivalled
tourism success: A city which has seen its ...
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Dozens of members of Congress are urging women's magazines like Cosmopolitan, Vogue and Glamour to stop accepting tobacco ads, saying such ads threaten the health of the teenagers and young women w...
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1. Amsterdam Singles set off to freewheeling Amsterdam in droves for the ultimate in boys-being-boys and girls-gone-wild escapades, mesmerized by the city's free-thinking, live-and-let-live mantra....
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Several jurors who convicted a black trash collector of killing a white fashion writer made disparaging racial remarks during deliberations, which became so heated two jurors had to be separated, a...
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Computer experts on Monday unveiled a digital reproduction of ancient Rome as it appeared at the peak of its power in A.D. 320 _ what they called the largest and most complete simulation of a histo...
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