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George Blecher
May 22, 20077 min read
Dirty Secrets of a Translator
No translator can translate equally well. A lot gets lost in translation. Some languages don’t translate well. These are just some of the...
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George Blecher
Oct 10, 20054 min read
The Hidden Face of America’s Poor
At first you don’t notice them. They’re so skinny that in a crowd of three or more at a street corner or in a mall, they disappear. When...
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George Blecher
Feb 2, 20055 min read
Healthier in Lungs, Poorer in Spirit
Eating in a Manhattan midtown restaurant the other night, I happened to glance over at the bar area. People were perched on bar stools,...
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George Blecher
Oct 5, 20045 min read
We Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us
In the light of the American presidential election in November 2004, George Blecher muses on the growing gap between those sympathising...
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George Blecher
Mar 20, 200410 min read
The Leisure Class and I
George Blecher discusses the timeliness of Thorstein Veblen’s “Theory of the Leisure Class” and traces his own lust for the...
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George Blecher
Feb 8, 200022 min read
Americans at Millennium’s End
Additionally published in Wespennest (Vienna)
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