Human Rights Watch says widespread corruption can be found at every level
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Rights Groups Says Murder, Torture Rife in Nigeria Police Force
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010US ‘to back’ UN Burma war crimes inquiry
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010Barack Obama’s administration will support the creation of a UN inquiry into alleged Burma war crimes.
US to support UN Myanmar war crimes inquiry
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010President Barack Obama’s administration has decided to support the creation of a UN inquiry into war crimes allegedly committed by Myanmar’s government, the Washington Post reported.
‘Super Sad Love Story’ a darkly comic ‘1984′ for our times
Sunday, August 15th, 2010Apparat: in Russian, the machinery of state authority — and, in Gary Shteyngart’s super new satire, a “pebble-shaped” device hanging around everyone’s neck and representing in one succinct image all that’s wrong with the world of Shteyngart’s novel.
O’Brien: Getting serious about the Singularity
Saturday, August 14th, 2010Humans merging with machines? Radical life extension? On the eve of the Singularity Summit, let’s look past some of these scarier notions to understand what lessons this movement can teach us.
2010 Reith Lecture Series: Scientific Horizons
Thursday, August 12th, 2010Part Three: What We’ll Never Know. Does science have the answers to help us save our planet? In the third of this year’s Reith Lectures, recorded at the Royal Society during its 350th anniversary year, its President Lord Martin Rees continues to explore the challenges facing science in the 21st century. There are things that will always lie beyond our sphere of comprehension and we should accept …
Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad Blueprint for a Post-Literate Future
Thursday, August 12th, 2010It’s the end of the world as we know it, and we feel fine! A new novel takes on iPhones, streams, and the reversal of the American dream. Gary Shteyngart – United States – iPhone – Lenny Abramov – Super Sad True Love Story
2010 Reith Lecture Series: Scientific Horizons
Saturday, August 7th, 2010Part Three: What We’ll Never Know. Does science have the answers to help us save our planet? In the third of this year’s Reith Lectures, recorded at the Royal Society during its 350th anniversary year,its President Lord Martin Rees continues to explore the challenges facing science in the 21st century. there are things that will always lie beyond our sphere of comprehension and we should accept …
Book Review – Super Sad True Love Story – By Gary Shteyngart
Saturday, August 7th, 2010In Gary Shteyngarts dystopian future, America is in a perpetual state of emergency, but people still cant help falling in love.
The rupture, next time: Satirist writes about American capitalism gone bad
Friday, August 6th, 2010It was close. So close, in fact, that Gary Shteyngart thought he might not finish his new novel before real world events morphed it from the futuristic piece he’d intended into actual history.
Judge lauds human rights advances at Belfast Féile
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010THERE IS now no alleged abuse of human rights which is not reviewable by an independent court, Northern Ireland High Court judge the Hon Mr Justice Séamus Treacy said last night.
Gary Shteyngart: Finding ‘Love’ In A Dismal Future
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010His third novel, Super Sad True Love Story, is a black comedy set in a futuristic America — where books don’t exist and where the economy has collapsed. Shteyngart explains why he decided to write a love story in this dystopic vision of the future — and why he thinks technology is changing the way we think.
Fiction review: ‘Super Sad True Love Story’ by Gary Shteyngart
Sunday, August 1st, 2010Creating an alternative world inhabited by characters we can care about isn’t easy. Yet Shteyngart, without resorting to pyrotechnics, insinuates his readers into an original, engaging and frightening world.
Oh, the insipidity! Novel satirizes us all
Sunday, August 1st, 2010There’s an inherent problem in satirizing how vapid American culture has become.
‘Super Sad True Love Story’: Gary Shteyngart’s dystopian novel is super, sad and true
Sunday, August 1st, 2010A review of Gary Shteyngart’s novel “Super Sad True Love Story,” a wicked sendup of just about everything in contemporary culture, from social media to celebrity, status and fashion, delivered in a multivoiced collage of diary entries, e-mail ramblings and cellphone chats. Shteyngart discusses his book at 8 p.m. Monday at Seattle’s Sunset Tavern in Ballard.
Doping Control Administrator
Saturday, July 31st, 2010The FA are recruiting a Doping Control Programme Whereabouts Administrator.
‘Super Sad’ And Satiric, Two Stories Of Doomed Love
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Gary Shteyngart’s dystopian novel narrates two doomed romances: one between a man and a woman, and one between a writer and his country — or what he fears his country may become. By turns fierce, funny and frightening, Super Sad True Love Story deserves a place on the shelf beside 1984 and Brave New World.
Disciplined Bozeman HR director takes lower post
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) A Bozeman city employee who was disciplined for her role in a hiring policy that asked job candidates to share login codes to personal Internet sites like Facebook is stepping down from her position for a lower post.
Super Sad True Love Story – By Gary Shteyngart
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Today Ive made a major decision: I am never going to die.
Take Splice, add Inception: the possible recipe for a big-screen Neuromancer | Ben Child
Saturday, July 24th, 2010Splice director Vincenzo Natali has rustled up a brilliant GM horror tale. It makes him the ideal choice to finally bring William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel to the screen Every year there are a couple of science-fiction movies that really stand out as original pieces of thinking, while managing to make some sort of headway with audiences. Last year, we had Moon and District 9, and 2010 looks like …