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Male voices, when they work well together, are a marvel.
This is as true of England’s soccer stadiums as it is of a tightly knit gospel quartet. It’s hard to say whether the four men of Overtones have ever been near a soccer stadium, but the odds are long.
No matter. What they do, they do very, very well.
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There’s something just a bit rich about a middle-aged pencil-pusher like me choosing to open his junk mail and electric bill with a little sword.
But hey, we don’t get to do much hunting and gathering any more, so toss us a bone. A little bellicose letter-opening never turned anyone into a real-life axe-murderer.
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This 1994 matchup of Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock would not be the last pairing of this couple. This fortunate outcome for movie viewers makes it even more fascinating to watch the chemistry between the two back in 1994 when they did not trip off the tongue easily as a twinned male-female leads. (more…)
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Our HP 1012 printer occupies a shelf at the geographical center of our home, wirelessly networked to four computers spread across our three stories.
It never fails us.
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In the age of email and voice mail, a hand-written note is perhaps more powerful than ever.
Crane & Co. delivers a classy, silver-on-white, engraved medium for saying ‘thank you’ that is just the thing for somebody who has done more than opened a door for you twice but less than buying you a new car.
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This finely produced University of Texas hardback is not your typical off-the-rack ‘What’s that bird?’ book.
What bird book do you know that begins with such picturesque scene-setting: ‘It is 6:30 a.m. in late April: a strange assortment of liquid chirps, chortles, and muffled yodels threads the dimness about to be burnished. In a nearby yaupon, a cardinal hammers bellow chinks into the still-black earth. Overhead, Purple Martins lance dawn—expressing their invisible presence through these baubles of sound that hang, as do the minstrels, in the dew-rich air.’
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My work demands a lot of interpersonal contact, face-to-face, over-the-phone, and written. Recently I have moved the more intimate of these communications off the electronic impersonality of email and onto quality stationery. At the same time, I’ve bought two fountain pens, my first ever, combining this black Cross Century II with its silver-and-gold twin. One stays at the office and one by my writing desk here at home.
In the mix, I find that I’m discovering a new art form and means of personal expression. Always an illegible writer, the stationery and the fine pen slow me down just enough to realize that I actually *can* write. (more…)
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Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.
My work demands a lot of interpersonal contact, face-to-face, over-the-phone, and written. Recently I have moved the more intimate of these communications off the electronic impersonality of email and onto quality stationery. At the same time, I’ve bought two fountain pens, my first ever, combining this polished chrome Cross Century II with its black-and-gold twin. One stays at the office and one by my writing desk here at home. (more…)
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Among the constellation of golf magazines, Golf World is the one that isn’t straining to be a lifestyle magazine with golf thrown in. (more…)
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The apostle Paul’s letter to the Christians at Rome is a constitutional document of Christian faith. The product of formidable passion and intellect, this theological-pastoral treatise has become the locus of a handful of doctrinal fine points that shape that faith and provide grist for the theological mill that grinds on into the present time.
By the time Paul pens this letter, he can assume that his readers are familiar with the Greek term ‘euanggelion’. Usually translated as ‘the announcement of good news’ or simply ‘good news’, the term resonates on multiple levels throughout Greco-Roman culture. Perhaps its most pertinent use as precursor to the apostle’s employment of the term is that which designates the arrival of an emperor. Paul is able to refer to ‘the good news’, suggesting that by late in the first century it had become commonplace among Christians to refer to the arrival of Jesus Christ and the proclamation of his achievements as the euanggelion par excellence. (more…)
Canter Bridge 