The shortage of foreign reading matter has coincided with a surge of intellectual activity.
He spoke, on one hand, of avoiding "all-out civil war and collapse" in Syria, but he also talked of shadowy foreign (read: American) interference.
Mr Tusk's idea of an energy union may differ from that of Maroš Šefčovič, the European commissioner in charge of energy; it is not yet clear, for instance, whether it would mean creating a single body charged with purchasing foreign (read: Russian) energy supplies.
Proficiency in the host country's language is captured by questions on the main language spoken at home, and the type of newspapers (German or foreign) read.
We arrive in the town of Derna, where the top export is the Libyan jihadist, sent to fight against foreign (read: U.S). invaders pillaging Iraq and Afghanistan.
The U.S. government evacuated foreign (read: white) personnel from Rwanda, and pretty much ensured the total success of the 100-day slaughter that occurred.
The only references to resources come in attempts to defund the EPA or in oil mantras, (un naturally, such as: "we have to reduce our dependence on foreign (read: middle eastern) sources of oil".
Meanwhile, Daunt's publishing wing has just brought out what I believe will be my next foreign read: Marie, by the French writer Madeleine Bourdouxhe (trans: Faith Evans).
When I first moved to China, in the mid-1990s, the only readily available foreign reading was the heavily censored China Daily and classic books like The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
His tone is relentlessly measured and sometimes banal; in his best-selling book, "The Audacity of Hope," a chapter on foreign affairs reads like a tentative primer on the history of American foreign policy.
