Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

New Blog: The Sana’a Burea

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Waq al-waq has added a new blog to our links. This one is run by Haley Sweetland Edwards and Paul Stephens.

I met Haley at an OPC event last year and have been impressed by her reporting from Yemen over the past several months, check out their blog: The Sana’a Bureau

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Inside the subtle art of succession

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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