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Ever feel like your brain is going on overload? By that I do not mean your garden-variety, generic onslaught of information we are mercilessly assaulted with from every direction on a daily basis. Your brain instinctively prioritizes and sorts through...

Seriously folks, how difficult can getting my name right be? During the three weeks I've been here, my name has been repeatedly modified, mispronounced, and played with at will. Its mention triggered random interesting but unsolicited inquisitiveness...

The SG stands for Secretary General (of the UN, that is). And yes, I have to use acronyms because I've been ODing on a gazillion of them over the past three weeks, half of which I either forgot or don't even know what they stand for yet, but nod...

Miguel d'Escoto's Inclusionasry Logic of Love: As world leaders continue to dish it out on hot global affairs during the 63rd session of the General Assembly, I found myself re-reading Miguel d'Escoto's statement upon assuming the Presidency of said...

Picture source: http://flickr.com/­photos/inflite/­2419329769 A river of faces flows A swarm of hands hold on to a bar Headphones are your best...

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It's moving season. My university is moving campus and I am moving house. My office, apartment and car are all full of boxes of various sizes. A sense of temporariness is infused into familiar spaces, and there is an urgency to just move and get it over...

As an opener, I am going to borrow Mike's statement on Saudi Arabia. Welcome to Saudi Arabia. Please Turn your watches back 500 years I think that's pretty right on. Make a note, however, that this is not a statement made to imply anything negative, it...

First off, I am blogging this from a $25/day Internet connection, which is about what I pay for two months of DSL in Cairo, so savor every word. I am in Bahrain on the second stop of a multi-country recruitment tour in the Arabian Gulf area. I've...

Don't you just hate waiting? It seems to me that a big chunk of our lifetime is spent in waiting. Waiting to board a plane, catch a train, at ticket counters, for the concerts to start, for your food, for your friends, coworker, boss, in traffic,...