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Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Thursday, November 13

Meetings I missed, Pt. XVII

by DavidAkin on Thu 13 Nov 2003 09:55 PM EST

There was a Wi-Fi meetup in Toronto just last night and I had no idea. That does it. I've got make sure I'm reading Joey's blog every 20 minutes. And Rader's, too.

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On Cultural Studies and Theory

by DavidAkin on Thu 13 Nov 2003 09:07 PM EST

Noel Malcolm reviews the new book by Terry Eagleton in The Daily Telegraph and hits several nails on the head when it comes to his assessment of sludge of verbiage that passes for academic discourse. (Can't say if he's right or wrong about Eagleton's book, not having read it yet.)
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