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Bringing Nothing to the Party True Confessions of a New Media Whore PAUL CARR This edition is licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. You are free to distribute any or all of the (unmodified) text for non-commercial use, providing you credit http://www.paulcarr.com Full license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us First published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson london ‘I have a theory that the truth is never told

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The History of Ninjutsu Ninjutsu began more than 800 years ago among the ninja people living in Japan. The warrior class which ruled Japan at the time were called the Samurai. They controlled the land and it's people. Their lord, the Shogun, was the only person the Samurai was answerable to. The ordinary peasant served the warriors every whim. A peasant could never strike a Samurai. If he did, it would mean his life. The ninja would not serve the Samurai, and fled to the barren, cold,

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BYJOHNLLOYD (WITHDOUGLASADAMS) The Meaning of Liff The Deeper Meaning of Liff What’s the name of the tallest mountain in the world? Mauna Kea, the highest point on the island of Hawaii. The inactive volcano is a modest 13,799 feet above sea level, but when measured from the seabed to its summit, it is 33,465 feet high—about three-quarters of a mile taller than Mount Everest. As far as mountains are concerned, the current convention is that “highest” means measured from sea level to summit; “tallest”

pages] within the space of four months, forming two separate novels, of which I will write one in the morning and the other in the evening, and to finish them by a fixed deadline. Do you know, my dear Anna Vasilievna, that even now such eccentric and extraordinary things utterly delight me. I simply don't fit into the category of staid and conventional people . . .” In this typically ebullient fashion, Dostoevsky described to a friend the predicament he found himself in during the summer of 1866. He was

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courtesy of The London School of Economics and Political Science Cover design by Karina Braszo Democratic Ideals and Reality DEMOCRATIC AND REALITY IDEALS A Study in the Politics of Reconstruction by the RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR HALFORD J. MACKINDER Privy Counsellor; lately Chairman of the Imperial Shipping Committee; formerly Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Professor of Geography in the University of London; and at one time Reader in Geography in the University