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Like many other digital achievements, YouTube's and other videosharing
sites' accessibility have provoked visions of a total democratization
of the audiovisual space, where there are no more barriers between
producers and the audience, or between professionals and amateurs.
For example, Wired magazine announced in May 2006: "Any amateur
can record a clip. Follow these steps to look like a pro.'" Producers
of digital photo cameras and video equipment, indeed, provide users
with the most accessible technology and software to record and share
clips on the go.
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When in 2003 the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique organised a congress dealing, for the first time, in a comparative way with the subject of the language of charters in medieval Europe, one important area, Scandinavia, remained unstudied. However, Inger Larsson’s book, reviewed here, fills the space left empty in a more than satisfying way. Larsson’s study concerns the development of the vernacular as a language of written records in medieval Sweden; she deals with the use of Swedish in the domain of pragmatic literacy.
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The Kurdish question today is a very different matter from what it was
twenty-five years ago. Today's Kurdish movement is a very different
movement from that of the 1970s — or rather, it consists of a number of
movements each of which is very different from its predecessors.
Kurdish society itself is perhaps even more drastically transformed than
the terms in which we see the movement. In large areas of the region
known as Kurdistan, especially in the Iraqi and Turkish parts, traditional
Kurdish society has been destroyed in the course of war, rebellion and
counter-insurgency.
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To judge by the political discourse, being a leftist today means supporting Sharon. Even when his government decides yet again to postpone the evacuation of the illegal outposts to an unknown future date, the pundits explain that the mere fact that he even raised the matter for discussion in the government is indicative of the seriousness of his intentions. Sharon will evacuate Gaza first, they say, and afterwards the outposts, and in the end maybe even the West Bank. And those who most believe that Sharon will dismantle settlements are the parties of the Left. On what basis?
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This Dutch research paper analyses the road to Turkish association with the EEC. Essential in doing so, is the question of allocation of duties between multilateral organisations with their aid to Ankara and the internal discussion amongst the Six. Accordingly, utilising the means of association, criteria for applying and the development of a general model are covered. Moreover, it seeks to provide coverage of the political and economic motives of the diverse parties that played a part while answering the application for the Turkish association.
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That the contemporary relevance of Jwaideh’s work had not diminished by the turn of the
century is shown by the fact that the recent Turkish translation was banned almost upon
appearance.[2] In a situation where many other books on the Kurds, including some more
overtly political ones, were and remained freely available, this can only be considered as
a mark of distinction, based on the recognition of some dangerous quality. It was no the
subject matter as such that caused the ban but rather, I imagine, the way in which
Jwaideh framed what was usually called the Kurdish ‘issue’ or ‘question’.
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Maximizers – adverbs denoting a maximum degree of a property (e.g. completely) – are often re-conceptualized as boosters denoting a high degree (cf. very). As a result, these degree adverbs come to modify unbounded adjectives which are not compatible with the idea of a maximum value. Although this kind of meaning change proved cross-linguistically robust, the exact mechanisms of this process have never been investigated.
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In Onderdrukking en verzet (Repression and Resistance), the first comprehensive
history of World War II in the Netherlands, Henk van Randwijk discussed
the distinction between goed and fout, right and wrong.
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On a late Saturday afternoon in the dark month of December 1927, Bert Hogenkamp
the staff of the Capi photoshop in Amsterdam were surprised to
see a customer dressed in a cassock enter the store. He asked to
have a word with Joris Ivens, the son of Capi’s owner C.A.P. Ivens,
who was acting as the manager of the Amsterdam store. The customer
in question was Jan Hin, or Ansgar Hin as he was known
after entering the Schotenhof Benedictine Monastery near
Antwerp.
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Martin van Creveld was born in Rotterdam and emigrated from the Netherlands to Israel as a small child. Educated at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the London School of Economics, he is currently professor of history at Hebrew University. His numerous books prove that his interests go well beyond his own discipline of military history. He is well versed in anthropology, political philosophy and international relations (but less so in economics).
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