Hi all,
Well, I finally made it to one of those churrascaria restaurants, where they bring the meats around to your table on skewers. It was great!
I’d gone to Copacabana to change my plane ticket and see the Copacabana Palace Hotel, built in 1932 and featured in that 1935 movie, Flying Down to Rio. It’s big and white, has a large pool and a lovely restaurant facing the famous beaches, but the lobby is about half the size of the lobby at the Royal Anne Inn, or whatever they call the motel that used to be the Wandlyn. The Copa does have more marble, but the lobby is tiny for a fancy hotel with its reputation.
Corinne’s Rio Diary: Prestação Final
All The News That’s Fit To Print
Titling their article “Unembedded, unintimidated”, Salon today announced the appointment of veteran journalist and ex-Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal to their new Washington D.C. bureau. “The country wants and needs unintimidated news,” says Blumenthal. “The Bush administration has put enormous political pressure on the press not to probe its radical policies and their consequences. Salon intends to be fearless.”
Former New York, and Spy, magazine editor-in-chief Kurt Andersen — whose work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and Architectural Record, among other publications, and who was also co-founder of the lost and lamented Inside.com — will return to New York magazine as a regular contributor, explaining his decision thusly: “I wrote occasionally at the The New York Times magazine for Adam Moss [who now edits New York magazine], and that was always a very pleasant experience. He called me last week and had this good idea and said, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun to have you in my first issue?’, and I agreed.”
Computer Security: The Cookie Controversy
As part of her Masters in Library Science thesis, Lori Eichelberger wrote and published The Cookie Controversy, an essay that has become the definitive chronicling of the history and purpose of computer cookies.
In the course of her essay, Ms. Eichelberger also addresses the issues of privacy, as well as the future of computer cookies, as a management storage device.
Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation
As a point of reference, American imperialism begins (or it doesn’t really — one would have to completely ignore the genocide of the native population, African and Native-American slavery, rapid and continuous expansion of the national borders through war, the ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples, the mid 1800s colonial state established in Nicaragua, etc.) with the aquisition of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Phillipines after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
In this timeline of American foreign policy, historian and Pentagon General Counsel of the Department of the Navy, Alberto J. Mora, provides his own perspective on the diplomatic role of the United States on the world stage, all the while dismissing the hegemony argument as a facet of American foreign policy. Determine for yourself, the veracity of his argument.