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Secret Surfing
The search giant reinforced its hegemony earlier this year when it started presenting results for Web sites, video, news articles, and images, all in one seamless column. The new interface, which it calls "Universal Search," sounds definitive. Once you can search everything with a single box, what's left? A lot, actually. Even as Google fulfills its manifest destiny by expanding to blogs, books, patents, streets, Earth, and even Mars, a bunch of other search sites have taken up the challenge of sorting the world's data. None of Google's competitors quite matches the industry leader for simplicity, ease of use, or even plain old accuracy. But if you're willing to mix and match, it's possible to outdo Google by picking and choosing from a host of nifty features that the search giant has ignored or overlooked.
57 Varieties of Radical Causes, Part I
Founder Drummond Pike referred to his organization as “a convenient vehicle with squeaky clean books."[8] The Tides Foundation keeps as much as ten percent of the total amount for “charitable advisory fees," which it can use for administrative costs and also as a treasury over which it has discretionary control. Likewise, the Tides Center will handle administrative functions for third-party non-profit organizations compatible with its political agenda, skimming up to 10 percent of all donations for itself. The projects and organizations the Tides Foundation has chosen to fund are troubling. For example, the so-called “legal left" (this is how its members refer to themselves) has been a prime beneficiary of Tides largesse. One of the principal recipients is the National Lawyers Guild, which began as a Communist front organization and, even after the fall of the Soviet empire, remains proud of its lineage.
Exploring Turkishness
Snow (2002) won the 2005 Prix Médicis étrangers, a French award granted to foreign books. The Independent listed Pamuk as one of six literary heroes of 2005 and the German Book Trade awarded him the Peace Prize in the same year. His novels have been described as intelligent, well researched, erudite and elegant. His aim is to bridge the divide between East and West. The difference between the two cultures has caused him pain: The world Pamuk inhabits is not a happy one. It is steeped in backwardness, and the struggle between secular and religious thought is tearing at the fabric of his country. Poverty is endemic, the weather harsh. Pamuk's stories are immersed in gloom; all his heroes suffer from acute anxiety, a sense of doom and a general feeling of inadequacy and quiet despair. His work belongs to two distinctive genres: The first, that of historical fiction, includes The White Castle (1985) and My Name is Red.
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