Author Archives: Robert

The Weisberg Collection

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Robert

While looking up some names from articles in Studies in Intelligence, I ran into another interesting on-line resource: the Harold Weisberg Archive, hosted at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. When a number of CIA names kept turning up at the … Continue reading →

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Notes on Studies in Intelligence

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Robert

I’ve read a bit more from and about Studies in Intelligence, the CIA’s in-house intelligence journal (not that much, put down that blindfold and cigarette).  A few random notes on this for today. The most interesting discovery was the SI … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the 2016 spring semester

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Robert

A new semester is starting, and I’ll be teaching some general education classes that I haven’t taught for a while.  Hope these are interesting for all of you who decided to enroll, I’m looking forward to meeting you!

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End of semester is here

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Robert

The fall semester of 2015 ends with a shiver! Grades are done and should be mailed to you on time this year. If you want a rough preview, check your Moodle class page grade report. Enjoy the snow up on … Continue reading →

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Idle reading

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Robert

I confess to reading stuff on the internet when I should be working. Before you drag me off and shoot me, try this site. What is this? It is a sortable index to every article that has been declassified from … Continue reading →

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Original German text of Darkness at Noon found

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Robert

Arthur Koestler’s novel Darkness at Noon, inspired by the Moscow show-trials of 1936-38, is one of the most important novels of the twentieth-century. Koestler originally wrote Darkness in German while he was living in Paris, supposedly between 1938 and 1939. … Continue reading →

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A new semester’s greetings

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Robert

A little late, but welcome to my students this semester! Looking forward to seeing you in class.

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Fixing textwidth in vim

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Robert

I have had several problems with my program editor Vim recently.  Here is how I fixed one of them. There are two directories that I had to mess with: c:\program files\vim [vim directory] c:\users\rabbit [user directory] the vim directory is … Continue reading →

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A Historical Relic?

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Robert

I recently ran across the Qing Research Portal, a website which unfortunately has stopped updating. It offers the “ECCP Reader”, an electronic version of Hummel’s Eminent Chinese of the Ch’ing Period, but the Windows version is not available, so I … Continue reading →

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Words to live by

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Robert

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations. Edward Sapir,Language, 1921.

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