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is giving the finger still offensive?

Many years before Adele stuck it to the suits at the Brit awards, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the economist Piero Sraffa were travelling on a train from Cambridge to London. It proved to…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 22, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2124 words)

Homs, city of torture

In Bashar al-Assad's Syria, it is not just forbidden to speak, demonstrate and protest: it is also forbidden both to give medical treatment, and to receive treatment yourself. Since the beginning of…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1868 words)
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