pictures, mainly from Bucharest Romania

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Vivid Magazine: A call for a national elite

What national elite Romania might once have had is now spread out over half the globe between Vienna and Los Angeles. As well, a significant amount perished in the communist labour camps and prisons. The lack of a domestic elite finds itself in today's parasitic and ineffectual political class, in our dusty academic circles, and in our predatory, shortsighted and ultimately uncompetitive business class.

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Vivid Magazine: Why I stayed

Having “left” Romania at the tender age of nine months, I am often asked why it was that in 1997 I returned?

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