Archive for January, 2007



CIA, Nobel Prize, Dr. Zhivago?

Last week, The Sunday Times reported that the CIA and the British Intelligence secretly co-operated to make sure that the famous novel of Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago, wins the Nobel literature prize, in an attempt to embarrass the Kremlin which had banned the novel.
Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
Here’s the full text of the article from […]

The Independent is reporting that the Iraqi parliament is about to pass a law, which will allow for a large-scale exploitation ofo Iraq’s massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, by Western oil companies such as BP, Shell and Exxon.
The Independent says that it has seen the draft of the new law and that […]

Here’s a photo that I took a few months back. This is the clock tower in Boston Quincy Market. (click to enlarge)





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