As much as I love working with kids and earning a living, I miss academia. I used to pour a lot of research and writing hours into my essays, and enjoyed publishing one or two as well (but of course none of my favorites were ever read by anyone outside the university - so it goes). I found a couple online for your reading pleasure if you came here, as you usually do, to learn about some serious business.

The Crisis in the Niger Delta
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20849562/Volume-II-Issue-I-Spring-2009
(page 3)

Communism Nostalgia and Communist Chic in Poland
http://www.humanityinaction.org/knowledgebase/62-lost-and-found-communism-nostalgia-and-communist-chic-among-polands-old-and-young-generations
(This is a co-written work by myself and two European students serving as a culminating paper for a month-long study abroad program in Warsaw, Poland).