Kazakhnomad's wanderings
You know how the mind wanders when you are wondering what the next move will be of your opponent, especially when 12 time zones away in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Submitted by
kazakhnomad on Wed Aug 6, 2008 8:15pm.
1) Washington Post Feb. 11 1975: “When the Calf Meets the Oak” from a Russian proverb, the book traces the combat that Solzhenitsyn (the calf) led against Soviet totalitarianism (the oak) from his public emergence in 1961 to his exile ... Read more »
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kazakhnomad on Tue Aug 5, 2008 8:02pm.
Thanks to Alvin Kapusta (Ukrainian diaspora who worked in Wash. D.C. in the State Department) and his saving newspaper and magazine clippings about Solzhenitsyn. I typed out the best quotes I could find about Solzhenitsyn from Kapusta... Read more »
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kazakhnomad on Tue Aug 5, 2008 7:59pm.
The following is the third of a four part series of notes I took on Solzhenitsyn while at Hoover Institute June of 2005. I looked through the archived files of Alvin Kapusta to find that he had followed this famous Russian Solzhenitsy... Read more »
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kazakhnomad on Sun Aug 3, 2008 8:42pm.
The following are texts from Kapusta Boxes 9 and 10 labeled “Solzhenitsyn Clippings 1977-1980” folder at Hoover Institution archives at Stanford University which I accessed June 15-19, 2005 regarding Alexandr I. Solzhenitsyn.&nb... Read more »
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kazakhnomad on Sun Aug 3, 2008 6:17am.
When I taught ESL (English as a Second Language) in northern Virginia for three years, I had students from all over the globe. However, during that time from 1995-1998, I do not recall having any students from Kazakhstan. Perhaps Kaz... Read more »
Submitted by
kazakhnomad on Fri Aug 1, 2008 7:22am.
A high school friend of mine wrote that she really liked the latest Batman movie “Dark Knight.” (It has nothing to do with chess, sorry) After seeing it myself the other day, I asked her what she liked about it. &... Read more »
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kazakhnomad on Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:07pm.
This blog entry is a continuation of yesterday’s culling out papers from my old files of what students have handed in to me. Some are pretty hilarious. The following reference letter was written by A.K.’s teacher from Turkey.&nbs... Read more »
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kazakhnomad on Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:50am.
I will make a HUGE disclaimer before I quote an essay from one of my Sierre Leone students from 1995, it is just too good to pass up. As I’m going through papers to file, to keep, and to burn, there is a reason why THIS descript... Read more »
Submitted by
kazakhnomad on Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:46am.
Yesterday was a brilliant day with a picnic of shashlik at our place. Afterwards a requisite water fight, adventures out in the woods to plan a new fort, treehouse and finally canoeing down the Red River. The four launched fr... Read more »
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kazakhnomad on Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:00am.
The following about stages of power is something I learned several years ago which is taken from Janet Hagberg 1994 book having to do with the above title. This might apply to my institution of higher learning in Central Asia, or... Read more »