Tuesday March 2, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday March 2, 2010)
(1)- NYC GRUMBLES -- The editor and creator of “New York City Museum of Complaint,” a collection of 132 letters written to the mayor of New York from 1751 to 1969, will answers questions of dissatisfaction over the course of the city’s evolution.

(2)- BEEN THERE, DONE THAT -- Argentina has announced new controls on shipping through its waters to the Falkland Islands in a growing dispute over British oil drilling plans.

(3)- NEW LEFT REVIEW -- 'Can a left intellectual project hope to thrive in the absence of a political movement? That remains to be seen' The new Left Review turns fifty years old.

(4)- HEINRICH VON KLEIST -- He only wrote eight stories, but they are among the glories of German, and world, literature. The best known to American readers is almost certainly the novella-length "Michael Kohlhaas."

(5)- YIDISH -- A mere century ago the majority of Jews, who then numbered over seventeen million (to today's fewer than thirteen million), spoke Yiddish, read Yiddish, and raised their children in Yiddish. How long before??

(6)- DESCARTES WAS POISONED -- French philosopher Descartes was killed by arsenic-laced holy communion wafer served him by a Catholic priest after Descartes aired 'heretic' views, says an academic at the University of Erlangen.

(7)- CHINESE & GOOGLE -- Students at an elite Chinese university who won an international “Battle of the Brains” contest may have been behind the cyberattacks on Google that escalated into a major diplomatic incident last month.

(8)- JESUS AND BEER -- Authorities in a Christian-majority state in India's remote northeast have confiscated all copies of a school textbook that carried a picture of Jesus Christ holding a can of beer and a cigarette.

(9)- CREDIT CARD NEW RULES -- new federal regulations are in effect, changing the relationship between you and your card issuer. Help for some but critics say the heavier regulations will make credit cards more costly for everyone.

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