News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to… — Walter W. Powell Copy Share Image
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“On February 14, I received a telegram from Buenos Aires urging me to return home immediately; my father was "not at all… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Buenos Aires was also a modern commercial city that served as the hub of Argentina’s vast agricultural and natural resources, as well… — Neal Bascomb Copy Share Image
“But Buenos Aires also had poor outlying slums, called villa miserias, where hundreds of thousands of people lived in tin or cardboard… — Neal Bascomb Copy Share Image
“He has spent weeks on the pristine, frosty shore of Lake Baikal in Siberia. He has drunk himself stupid in the fairy-tale… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
“Tamara Bunke was the only woman to fight alongside “Che” during his Bolivian campaign. She was an East German national, born in… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“The closest most people have ever come to understanding what an investment banker does may have been on October 24, 1995, when… — Peter Troob Copy Share Image
“General Gary Prado Salmón, retired, had been the commander of the unit that had captured Guevara. He confirmed General Vargas’ statement and… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“When you're a kid, the world can be bounded in a nutshell. In geographical terms, a child's universe is a space that… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share Image
“I was extremely shy of approaching my hero but he, as I found out, was sorely in need of company. By then… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to. I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I learned an invaluable lesson from a kid in Argentina when we were playing Buenos Aires in 2002. I came out of… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
“Vagueness about numbers is a curse of the public sector. In the worst cases it borders on the criminal. Challenged to find… — John Micklethwait Copy Share Image
