I came here to write. I’d known I wanted to be a writer before I knew how to read, but after college, I found myself only writing copy for advertising agencies that sucked all creativity out of me. Life was so expensive and politics so erratic in Turkey that all of my attempts at literary writing were shut down for one reason or another, each time

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Apart from the work of Ellis Stones and Edna Walling, there was practically no original landscaping in Australia before the late 1950s except for that of Burley Griffin and the pre-First World War Guilfoyle, who was responsible for the Royal Botanic Gardens. There was, however, a growing awareness of Australia's indigenous flora, but the practice i... See more

But in the end, like many of my peers, I felt a sense of disappointment. You have to believe in grand possibilities to endure the pain and difficulty of the selection process to join the French civil service at a senior level. Only once inside do people open their eyes and realize it’s more complicated than expected: the state’s bureaucratic struct

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