Choisir une autre direction

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Usagers du service public, où êtes-vous ?

Here every student is already a customer. Corporate, management, funding, oversea fees, competitors, market : the university is a business. Does everything really have to be about money?

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You can’t make everybody happy

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Poppy. But there is no harm in trying no, is there?

Poppy is a 30 year old primary school teacher  living with her best friend in Camden, taking driving lessons with a racist psychopath but loving it. Isn’t it fun, isn’t grand, isn’t great to be nice to people who treat you like shit?

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Making the difference

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STOP!

‘Islam makes the difference’. And so does ‘image resizer for windows XP’ downloadable on line for free. Thanks Ian. Now all my pictures will upload much faster while it will still be possible to click on them to get the bigger picture. Fantastic.

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NYC (Billboards 3)

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2 years of homemade ice cream

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Today, 2 years have gone by since the very first day of this blog. I am making full-fat vanilla ice cream with crushed smarties to celebrate.

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5 years of bloody war

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Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Two words that are now synonymous with torture and unlawful imprisonement. Why the US keeps behaving in such a way goes beyond understanding. Is it about keeping up with a bad reputation or securing another 9/11 style terrorist attack?

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Harvard Square

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Obama et la mort de MLK

dscn5285.1207311125.JPG                                                    Il y a trois semaines, suite aux propos radicaux de son pasteur, Obama a préféré plonger la tête la première dans les eaux profondes et sombres de la question de l’inégalité raciale. Son discours (Race speech) tente d’expliquer la colère sourde de la communauté noire et le ressentiment latent de la . . . → Read More: Obama et la mort de MLK

Glamour forever (billboards 2)

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