I'm a producer-editor in the Vanguard journalism department.
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- What I would Change About the World: Too complicated to cover here.
- Current Project: I'm armchair-traveling (editing for the various correspondents in our department who travel the globe).
- Influences/Heroes: Raymond Queneau/Samuel Beckett/Mark E. Smith
- Political Bent: Left
- Favorite Bands: The Fall
- Favorite Directors: Orson Welles, Takeshi Kitano
- Favorite Movies: The Tarnished Angels; Touch of Evil; Contempt
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- mshen commented on Re-Greening Detroit 4 years ago
It would indeed be wonderful if Detroit, home of the automotive industry, could be reinvented as a 21st century eco-friendly city. I imagine the process is mindboggingly complex, however. Can... more
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- mshen commented on France Censors 4 years ago
I think this law is a misguided response to a serious problem of violent videos on the Internet. I'd be curious to know the opinions of any French citizens out there, however. I know that the... more
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- mshen commented on 8.0 Epicenter Peru 4 years ago
Both the earthquake and the slow response from Lima are tragedies. It puts me in mind of two things: Katrina and the slow progress (or lack thereof) in rebuilding New Orleans to withstand another... more
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- mshen commented on I Can haz brains? 4 years ago
I'm not saying she's any kind of genius. Or that these pageants are a good idea. But it's not like she was espousing anything particularly objectionable up there. She just got... more
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- mshen commented on I Can haz brains? 4 years ago
Oh, give her a break. Sounds like she just got nervous.
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- mshen commented on China's Chance 4 years ago
Some follow-up reading to this pod can also be found on the NY Times today: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/world/asia/26china.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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- mshen commented on Mogadishu Madness 4 years ago
Reporters Without Borders says Somalia is one of the most dangerous places in the world to work. It was interesting to edit this piece, not least because it contains a more nuanced portrait of... more
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- mshen commented on Virtual Campaigns 4 years ago
As someone who has occasionally daydreamed about escaping the United States for an imagined pseudo-socialist paradise of approximately hexagonal shape located in western Europe, I was sorry to see... more
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- mshen commented on China's Chance 4 years ago
China's preparations for the Olympics: Interesting. Olympics themselves, in the age of steroid-injecting, micro-second shaving, uberprofessional athletes: Totally boring. Gimme the old...
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- mshen commented on Pollution to Protest 4 years ago
I have edited a bunch of Vanguard pods set in locations around the world. I have to say that these e-waste villages look like the absolute worst places to live. It should make anyone think twice... more
