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Claire Berlinski, Ed.
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Since earning her doctorate in international relations from Oxford University, Claire Berlinski has lived and worked in Britain, Thailand, Laos, Turkey and now France as a journalist, academic, editor, translator and freelance writer. She is the author of Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis is America's, Too and There is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters. She has also written two spy novels. Her writing has been published in publications including the Wall Street Journal, Th… [more]
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The editors were just asking each other, backstage, who among us might be in Canada and able to give us an update on the Canadian elections. We were running through the names of our Canadian members from memory. Then we realized we should really be more organized about this. Ricochet has a presence in every inhabited continent (and we […]

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I am an American living abroad, currently residing in Thailand and teaching history at an international school.
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Its proper name is KrCourtesy of bangkok.comung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit.

To us it is just Krung Thep, or Bangkok. The City of Angels. The Big Mango.

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Born in the Evil Empire, Oblomov was once a promising young man. He is now middle aged and spends most of the day lying on his couch in a suburb of Washington, D.C.
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statue-of-liberty-part-of-a-group-everettThe central conceit of FX TV series The Americans is that a pair of grown-up Russian spies, having never set foot outside the Soviet Union, parachute into the United States and instantly pass for stereotypical American suburbanites.

Well, not quite instantly–they do spend their first night in the United States in a motel room, marvelling at the air conditioning, the shag carpeting, and the plentiful toilet paper. And they practice their English as though the language were a pair of KGB-issued secret transmitter-decoder shoes that need polishing and breaking-in. But in the morning–Boom!–they’re The Americans.

Folks, believe me when I tell you, it does not work like that. For at least a year after our arrival in the United States, my mother served Corn Flakes with chicken soup. My dad had studied English for most of his life, but never completely mastered the definite article.

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