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Just how privileged are you?

January 30, 2008

I got this meme from Barbara over at Home in France.  It was developed for a research project (and copyrighted) by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University (see their project’s website here).  They ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright if you use this meme. Bold the [...]

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Fünf Jahre geschafft!

May 14, 2007

Christina before Germany On May 14, 2002, I stepped off a plane at Berlin’s Tegel airport to find out that Air France had missrouted 3 out of 4 of my bags. And that’s how my life in Germany began.   Christina after Germany       JUST KIDDING! (kinda)     In the beginning, we [...]

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Blog stats

November 10, 2006

Over the last week…Average # page loads/day: 64Average # unique visitors/day: 50Average # return visitors/day: 26Stats for my last 100 visitors (since 9 Nov 2006, 9:42am)…Most popular labels: Germany and Berlin (I haven’t got all posts labeled yet, this will take a while)Blogs sending me the most traffic: Germany Doesn’t Suck followed by Jeweled Concrete, [...]

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In The News: Religion, Diet, Racism, and Sport

September 16, 2006

Faith and Reason?During a recent speech at the University of Regensburg, Pope Benedict XVI made a comment that has inflamed the Muslim world. In a discussion about how faith and reason can coexist, he mentions a religious dialogue that took place between the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an educated Persian around 1391: In [...]

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Allez les vieux

July 6, 2006

I hope I spelled that correctly. High school French class just gets further and further away with each passing day. So Germany is out and the nation is depressed. Rainer has recovered from Football Fever. Italy and France will by vying for the title of World Champion this weekend. I just realized this morning that [...]

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I am officially a jinx

July 1, 2006

But France played really well today, so I don’t feel too bad about Brazil losing. I really, really HATE it when a game is decided by the referees or when one team dominates but because of bad luck the other wins. I know I’m a jinx, but I can’t help wanting to root for the [...]

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How Long Will America Lead the World?

June 28, 2006

From a Newsweek International article at msnbc.com: Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, reflects on the growing competence and cost advantage of countries like China and even Mexico and says, “It’s unclear how many manufacturers will choose to keep their businesses in the United States.” Intel’s Andy Grove is more blunt. “America … [is going] down [...]

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