[monochrom] Shuarma in Wien?

werte bagasch-gemeinde! wo gibt's eigtl. noch shuarma in wien? frueher immer bei fuad am naschmarkt, aber der hat schon vor laengerer zeit das geschaeft an den nagel gehaengt...sachdienliche hinweise die zum verzehr des gesuchten fuehren hoechst willkommen! beste gruesse, martin w. -- NUR NO

[monochrom] Bolivia Looking Forward: New Constitution Passed

After Bolivia's new constitution was passed in a national referendum on Sunday, thousands gathered in La Paz to celebrate. Standing on the balcony of the presidential palace, President Evo Morales addressed a raucous crowd: "Here begins a new Bolivia. Here we begin to reach true equality."

[monochrom] The funniest sentence in the Russian language?

>>the goat cried out in an inhuman voice<< Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 1/30/2009 10:18:00 PM

[monochrom] Revisiting "In the Heat of the Night"

By Leonard Quart. In the fifties and through most of the sixties few if any Hollywood films dealt in a serious and authentic manner with black life. The only one that readily comes to mind is Michael Roemer's (a white filmmaker) Nothing But a Man (1964), starring Ivan Dixon as an itinerant bla

[monochrom] What The Obama Government Might Mean To The Arts

Barack Obama was sworn in on 20 January with a historic mandate for change. Extraordinary times call for bold actions and visionary ideas. Big government is back. Hopes are for an administration that is not only more progressive, but also smarter. This could be good news for the arts—as lon

[monochrom] Scandinavia, Atheist Heaven

So the typical Dane or Swede doesn't believe all that much in God. And simultaneously, they don't commit much murder. But aren't they a dour, depressed lot, all the same? Not according to Ruut Veenhoven, professor emeritus of social conditions for human happiness at Erasmus University Rotte

[monochrom] Danaergeschenk Bü rgerkarte

Die Quintessenz klärt auf, wie die Bundesregierung die Verwendungsquote der Bürgerkarte hebt. Ich bin entsetzt. Und erwarte den Ausgang der Wahl: Werden die 5000 Studenten mit Bürgerkarte a) gar nicht wählen b) via Internet wählen c) herkömmlich wählen Ich tippe auf 95% a) das heisst, ob das Wahlg

[monochrom] Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard

If you plan to learn Chinese, you may be interested in this enlightening and delightful piece by David Moser, University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies: Whereas modern Mandarin is merely perversely hard, classical Chinese is deliberately impossible. Here's a secret that sinologists won't