How to Make a Difference Abroad: A Review of Kate Otto’s “Everyday Ambassador”
June 1, 2015 8 min. read

In her new book Everyday Ambassador (Atria Paperback), Kate Otto lays out a program for young people seeking to make a difference.

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On Nazi Rule In Soviet Ukraine
April 22, 2011 5 min. read

This year the world commemorates the 70th anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Another sad 70th anniversary coming up in the fall is the massacre of the Jewish population in a ravine near Kyiv in Ukraine. The ravine called Babi Yar, or Babyn Yar in Ukrainian, is a site where around 100,000 […]

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A History of Inner Asia, A Book Review
February 26, 2011 5 min. read

A History of Inner Asia by Svat Soucek is a scholarly work about the history of Inner Asia which includes the present day five independent states of Central Asia (in historic terms also known collectively as Russian or Western Turkestan), Mongolia (Outer Mongolia) and China controlled Sinkiang (Eastern or Chinese Turkestan). It is not customary […]

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Andrew Ross Sorkin Video: 'Too Big To Fail'
November 22, 2009 2 min. read

If you’ve ever wanted to be a ‘fly-on-the-wall’ in the clubby, heavily wood-paneled board rooms or the glass-encased corner offices of chief executives when the deal is being negotiated, this is it.

The book is interesting, detailed and crammed with an ‘insider’s’ perspective as the drama that precipitated the ‘Great Recession’ unfolded.

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