Search Results: Yaroslavl
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INTERNATIONAL
- Benedict Coleridge
- 07 January 2014
The coughing is getting worse; it sounds like the pew behind me is hosting a cardiac arrest. English theologian James Alison described mass as 'a long term education in becoming unexcited', a state that allows us to dwell 'in a quiet place' that 'increases our attention, our presence'. In Brussels, becoming 'unexcited' seems important.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Benedict Coleridge
- 25 January 2013
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The coughing is getting worse; it sounds like the pew behind me is hosting a cardiac arrest. English theologian James Alison described mass as 'a long term education in becoming unexcited', a state that allows us to dwell 'in a quiet place' that 'increases our attention, our presence'. In Brussels, becoming 'unexcited' seems important.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ben Coleridge
- 22 April 2010
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Winter in the Russian industrial city of Yaroslavl has been hard since
the Global Financial Crisis. The 'contract' between Russia's elite and ordinary
Russians, whereby the latter sacrifice their civil and political rights
for economic wellbeing, is not delivering.
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