Context & Content
Marton Radkai
- Location
- Germany
- Birthday
- May 09
- Company
- Freelance
- Bio
- Native New Yorker, living in Germany on the border to Switzerland and France. Journalist, editor, translator and always on the lookout for interesting projects.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Hello Kurt,
My old
friend Gabriel A. used to say
"Dogfood"... I like
th…”
October 17, 2009 04:57AM - “Good story, Steve. It
poibnts out the strange
disconnect
between the reality
that…”
October 16, 2009 02:57AM - “Hi,
I just hope
that the American people
notice it. From outside
the
US, it was
fa…”
October 12, 2009 02:20AM - “sorry.... Alan”
October 09, 2009 10:32AM - “Hi Allan,
They
are part of a less sterile
cultural heritage... very
funny
stuff.…”
October 09, 2009 10:27AM
Marton Radkai's Links
Bookkeepers and Bookmakers
Frankfurt is much more than just banks and Joe "Peanuts" Ackermann, of course.
The Frankfurt Book Fair is on and somewhat underreported by the MSM, even though it is one of the world's biggest trade fair for books. This year, over 401,000 items were on display, down some from… Read full post »
Prizefights
The reaction to Obama winning the Nobel Prize for Peace at the end of the week came as quite a surprise on an otherwise banal news day of business, banks, bombs and bloodshed. And it raised the usual storms of pro and con with sharp crosswinds of bloviation… Read full post »
Chicago jiujitsu
The distinct sense of glee felt in some of the more vociferous conservative circles at Obama’s journey to Copenhagen to promote Chicago as an Olympic city must have come as a pleasant surprise to the president and his advisers. Just as a cat, once it has caught sight of a moving… Read full post »
A few days ago, Roger Cohen at the New York Times wrote a column entitled “The Miracle of Dullness” regarding the upcoming elections in Germany. It said more about the author than the country he was writing about. Cohen begins by describing how his plane thumps down pl/… Read full post »
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