Places

Beijing 2009

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I spent three days doing the standard tourist bit and getting over jet-lag.   Smog was very bad the first day but not noticeable again till now.  I saw the Forbidden City (well worth the visit), the Temple of Heaven, the Lama Temple, the fake-goods market (very poor quality and bad fakes), Tiananmen Square and the … Read more

Annual Cheeseburger Party

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Starting in 2008 we hosted an annual poolside American Cheeseburger Party in late summer.  The guests varied but generally included David and Wenner, Tom and Tim (always), Evelyn and Louie, Bernadette, Michele, Patrick and Micheal (if in town), Jurgen and Martha.

Villa St. Joseph, Mane France

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    525504300RUE HAUTEMANE922181.36319250.45.7676448591440543.9372098597957 We found Villa St. Joseph in the summer of 2007 and closed on the purchase in early 2008. STATUTS SCI THE FINNEGAN RESIDENCE  

David Galloway

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We were introduced to David soon after we bought our house in Mane.  David quickly became a close friend.  We met at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2008, traveled together to Berlin and Japan in 2011 and Uzbekistan in 2014.

Tom and Tim

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We met Tom and Tim when we were first looking for a house in France.  They helped us find our house.  They supervised multiple remodeling projects.  They visited us in Buenos Aires in 2013.

Europe 2007

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The trip had three parts.  First we started in Paris, then Milan, and finally we rented a house in Tuscany with Sandy and Keith and Ed and Nadine. In the second part we moved west from southern Croatia to eastern Provence. In the third part we went house hunting, seeing over 20 houses in about … Read more

My Washington Education: The Politics of Research

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From the late 1970’s through 1990 I conducted numerous public policy related studies.  This post relates stories of how politics and research mixed and ended with my exile from Washington.  Only a distinct minority of studies in which I was involved are the subjects of the following stories. Research in Berkeley Disabled in Science NSF Grant: … Read more

PhD in Sociology from Berkeley

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I was awarded a PhD in Sociology with specialties of quantitative research methods, the sociology of science, deviance, and social theory.  My dissertation committee consisted of Neil Smelser (chair), Charles Glock, and Reinhold Bendix. My PhD examining committee consisted of Charles Glock (chair), Paul Feyerabend, Troy Duster and Robert Bellah. My biography on the Sociology … Read more