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February '68
Six months after the Summer of Love, a young reporter named Lewis Lapham traveled to India to participate in a gathering that included celebrities like The Beatles and Mia Farrow, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a proponent of transcendental meditation. In a new book, he shares the true story of the legendary confab.
Our Immigrants, Their Immigrants
Jonathan Laurence, professor of political science at Boston College and affiliated scholar with the Center on the U.S. and Europe at the Brookings Institution
- on the problems of intergration of immigrants in France
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Joel Kotkin, Irvine Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and author, The City: A Modern History (Modern Library 2005) and The New Geography, How the Digital
Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape (Random House, 2000)
- on why Muslim immigrants here in the US are integrated
» Boston College Professor Laurence's Bio
» Jonathan Laurence's Website
» http://www.joelkotkin.com/">Joel Kotkin's Website
We Built This City
Kate Ascher, executive vice president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation and author, The Works: Anatomy of a City (Penguin, 2005)
- on everything you wanted to know about the inner workings of a city
The Meddle East?
Robert Fisk, journalist and author, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Knopf, 2005)
- with a political history of the middle east
» Robert Fisk's website
February '68
Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's Magazine and author, With the Beatles (Melville House, 2005),
-says it's good to harbor doubts
» With the Beatles (Melville House, 2005)
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