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The Top of the World
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2 days ago, 07/03/2013 at 15:09
I spent much of a day earlier this week 800 miles north of the Arctic Circle, high up on the western coast of the massive island of Greenland – indeed, the largest island in the world -- in the north Atlantic. At this time of year, there are still only a few hours of daylight, and the huge glaciers that collide are shimmering sheets of blue ice, like blankets over the snow covered valleys. It is a forbidding and extraordinary place. |
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Way Up North ...
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2 weeks ago, 28/02/2013 at 15:15
On the long flight home from three days in Afghanistan, I've just reread Steven Pressfield's superb study of Alexander the Great's harsh, bitterly contested fight in Afghanistan -- he marched for years over the terrain that today I traverse in an afternoon flight. |
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To Know the World
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04/02/2013 at 15:47
Charlemagne said that "to know another language is to have a second soul." In this rapidly globalizing 21st century world, that simple statement summarizes the gift of regional expertise, cultural understanding, and the ability to communicate directly in the language of an ally, partner or colleague. |
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