31.1.05

The Struggle for January

Books Bought:
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas by Paul Theroux
What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Responce by Bernard Lewis
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Phillip Gourevitch
The Prince of Providence by Mike Stanton
Tibet, Tibet: A Personal Journey by Patrick French
Allies at Odds: American and Europe in the New World Order by Thomas Mowle
The African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo by Che Guevara
The Question of Sepratism: Quebec and the Struggle for Sovernty by Jane Jacobs
Cresant and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds by Steven Kinzer
Istanbul and The Civilisation of the Ottoman Empire by Bernard Lewis
Towards a New Cold War: US Foriegn Policy from Vietnam to Reagan by Noam Chomsky

Books Read:
The African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo by Che Guevara (unfinshed)
The Best American Non-required Reading 2005 by Dave Eggers (unfinshed)
From Beruit to Jeruselem by Thomas Friedman (unfinished)
Bay of Tigers by Pedro Rosa Mendes
Cresant and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds by Steven Kinzer
The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of Empire by Andrew Marshel
The Question of Sepratism: Quebec and the Struggle for Sovernty by Jane Jacobs
Caucasus by Nicholas Griffin
How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State by Basil Davidson
Istanbul and The Civilisation of the Ottoman Empire by Bernard Lewis
Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
Moneyball by Michael Lewis

Totals:
Bought: 11 Read: 13 (3 incomplete)

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12.1.05

long term job prospects...

if you are interviewing at a hotel that Ho Chi Min used to work at, and they ask you why you want to work there, is it inapropriate to say that your long term career goal is to lead a left-wing insurgancy against the neo-imperialist swine in your homeland?

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