17 Faces Of Jeremy Paxman We Will Miss
Jeremy Paxman has left BBC Newsnight. What a perfect excuse for the below...
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The Wit And Wisdom Of Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector, “that rare woman who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf,” is considered today the greatest of modern Brazilian writers. Born during the horror of the Russian Civil War, she arrived in Brazil as a baby and lived most of her life in obscurity. She was both an unacknowledged spokeswoman for Pond’s Face Cream and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Here are her epiphanies...
Economics Is Not Boring. BUT IT IS KINDA EVIL…
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