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The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] Thursday, January 29, 2009 [image] Mo' Russia [ Kathryn Jean Lopez ] Jay reports on Putin in Davos and more here . 01/29 07:56 AM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2009. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us

Nordlinger: Davos Journal, Part III
Articles on National Review Online — ... and here . Shall we just get going, without many prelims, about the beauty of the Alps, the habits of the jet set, and so on? Okay. The prime minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is meeting with a group of journos. I can t help making a crack, to myself, when I see a reporter from Reuters — and I will inflict it on you: I think, That s nice: Middle Eastern leaders meeting with their core constituents and supporters. [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] And this leads me to another point, about Middle Eastern press delegations and their coverage of Middle Eastern ...

Nordlinger: Davos Journal, Part IV
Articles on National Review Online — Davos , Switzerland Ladies and gentlemen, this is your fourth installment from Davos — Part IV of these notes on the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum. For the previous installments, please go here , here , and here . The Annual Meeting has been described as a global summit — and that s not too much of a stretch, really. What were we saying at the end of Part III? It matters not, we ll just march on with the prime minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gilani (sometimes Gillani ). And I ll tell you how to pronounce his last name: The G is hard — you say ...

Nordlinger: Davos Journal, Part V
Articles on National Review Online — Davos , Switzerland F riends, welcome to Part V of this journal, these jottings from the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, way up in the Alps: Thomas Mann country (no, I don t mean L.A.). For the previous four parts, go here , here , here , and here . One evening, I moderate, or facilitate, a dinner panel called Political Art: What Now? The term political art makes my blood run cold, because I think politics usually cheapens or corrupts art, and who knows? Art may cheapen and corrupt politics. But many people like the mixing, and it is ...

Nordlinger: Davos Journal, Part VI
Articles on National Review Online — Davos, Switzerland W ell, we re in the home stretch, ladies and gentlemen — let s end today. Let s have the sixth installment be our finale. And for the previous installments, click on the following links: I , II , III , IV , and V . And just to remind you (as though you needed reminding), we re at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, high up in the snowy, snowy Alps, in Heidi country. (Actually, Heidi lived in a valley below, I believe — been a while.) [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] We are now in the cozy dining room of the ...