Here are some of our favorites. Please leave a comment below and share yours. Cheers!
Maria Peligro (Mexican)
Dolores Burrito
Cafe do Brasil (the have the best buffet I’ve ever had…in my life! Tues-Thurs?)
Bar-Celona (Spanish Tapas & Paellas–I’m not sure that this is amazing food, but it takes me back to BCN, so…)
SUMO (Japanese)
3 MOMS (Vietnamese)
Ixthy’s (Amazing Korean Imbiss in overwhelmingly religious environment)
Ron Telesky’s Canadian Pizza
Bejte Ethiopia
Casalot (“Arabian”)
Le Cochon Bourgeois (Though prohibitively expensive French fare, the best food I’ve had in Berlin)
Weinstein (best German cuisine I’ve had?)
Italian Resaturants:
Bar Centrale
Knofi (Italian – and has a cute market across the street)
Malatesta (Best Italian in Berlin?)
Osteria No. 1 (nice garden in rear that backs up to Viktoria Park)
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I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something to be surpassed. What have you done to surpass mankind? –Nietzsche
Analyze the following sources and come to our next session with written responses to the questions below.
Required Sources:
Optional Sources:
Response Questions:
1. Define and describe the concept of the ubermensch.
2. Apply the definition and description from #1 to characters throughout history, both real and imagined. Think: Omar from The Wire, Kurtz from Heart of Darkness, Tyler Durden in Fight Club, Dexter, etc.
3. Assess the functions and dysfunctions of the pragmatic applications of the ubermensch philosophy.
4. How does Judge Holden personify the Nietzsche’s ubermensch?
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This is far from an exhaustive list, but after a couple of years here, I figure that I should at least begin to compile a list [for Andrea]. These are some of the MySpace pages of some Berlin-based artists that I’ve seen and liked:
If you’ve found a Berlin-based artist that you recommend, please post a comment below.
17 Hippies (mostly acoustic French-American-German neo-folk something or other)
Pescadores de Ventanas (all over the place)
Eb Davis Band (blues and soul. Bobby Bland style)
Terrence Bowery Band (soul)
Reggie Moore (jazz piano)
Mike Russell (hollow-body, G. Benson guitar jazz-soul)
Tom Blacksmith & The Soulminers (poppy, playful blues)
Ryan Jacobs (US-Paris-Berlin singer-songwriter)
DJ Mark Hype (spins old soul records)
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Here are my my class lecture notes which detail the domestic arena of the Progressive Era.
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A note from Google:
Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident–albeit a significant one–was something quite different.
No more google.cn
Farhad Manjoo from Slate weighs in
On the eve of Hillary Clinton’s speech in response to Google’s decision, Atlantic correspondent and New America board member James Fallows moderated a discussion involving Open Society Institute fellow Rebecca MacKinnon, Foreign Policy contributing editor Evgeny Morozov, Columbia Law School professor and Slate contributor Tim Wu, and Clinton’s senior adviser for innovation, Alec Ross. Watch this lively panel debate.
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As militants lay down their arms in the Niger Delta, the battle is on to tackle Nigeria’s other massive ills…
Over the past three months the militants have been giving up both themselves and their guns in unprecedented numbers. The federal government has promised them an unconditional pardon for past crimes, a small stipend to live on and the promise of retraining in order to “reintegrate” into society.
Special Briefing from the Economist
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BRITAIN, and especially England, is occasionally compared to North Korea (only half-jokingly) as one of the most heavily centralised states in the world. Whitehall bureaucrats micromanage schools and hospitals; local government is dependent on the Treasury for most of its funding. But one bastion of local power has for years stood apart from the trend towards central control: planning, the process by which building projects are granted or denied permission to proceed. Objections from stubborn locals can derail or delay everything from small wind farms and shopping centres to huge projects of national importance. The most notorious example is probably Heathrow airport’s fifth terminal, which languished in the planning system for year upon year before eventually being approved in 2001.
On November 9th all that seemed set to change, as Ed Miliband, the energy and climate-change secretary, delivered the first of the government’s “National Policy Statements” on infrastructure. These will inform the work of the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC), an independent body set up last month. Led by Sir Michael Pitt, a veteran planner and local-authority boss, it will take over responsibility for planning nationally important projects from March 2010. Decisions that used to take years will, in theory, take just months or even weeks, with public involvement drastically curtailed.
Read on here
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TO JUDGE from the awe with which he is regarded by his rivals, Alex Salmond, Scotland’s first minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) is a politician of wizard-like cunning. Look, they say, at the scandal over the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Saltires were waved in Tripoli and brickbats hurled from Washington; yet, even as he insisted the decision was Scotland’s alone, Mr Salmond contrived to deflect much of the blame onto Gordon Brown. Their deep fear is that Mr Salmond will conjure Scotland into independence.
Read on from Bagehot
This is a rick editorial that dances across many of our APCG themes.
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Do state firms have too much power? A case in Hebei stirs debate
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