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My son bought me this DVD for Christmas after it appeared on a recent list of the funniest movies ever made. Our family watched it together on Christmas night. (more…)

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I’ve owned this watch for a year and it continues to grow on me. (more…)

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Widespread confusion marks the role and function of the governing board in the non-profit environment both in the United States and internationally. Indeed, the board figures as one of the top three the make-or-break entities in the more than one hundred educational institutions in sixty-odd countries with which the organization I direct finds itself in partnership. (more…)

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The time on my watch is two hours behind Charlotte’s languid late-morning minute hand. It’s ‘Going Home Day’, that passage of my journeys which begins far from the hearth, often with colleagues and friends, occasionally in the faux hominess of a hotel room, and ends—finally, it ends—amid familiar smells, domestic jokes, wagging tails, and loving arms. (more…)

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Andrea Bocelli possesses one of the great romantic personae of our musical generation. His voice is, with apologies to many more capable observers, not that of an operatic tenor. (more…)

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This 1996 Meridian Records (London) celebration and sampler of Georg Philipp Telemann showcases the delightful and über-competent Cambridge trio called Badinage. Paul Carroll, Sally Civval and harpsichordist David Rowland play a restrained, precise Telemann that is honey on the ears. (more…)

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I stumbled upon Florent Pagny’s voice on a drive through France in 1997 and quickly picked up Savoir Aimer, produced in that same year. I still listen with appreciation. (more…)

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This splendid little Rutledge Hill Press publication is best read as the first in the Press’ ‘Gentlemanners Books’ series. (more…)

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Though other reviewers appear to have had less impressive results, I have just now used this project successfully to repair a CD that used to stop in the middle of track four and cause my computer to seize up while iTunes tried to deal with the issue. (more…)

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The thing that most amazes me about this dark, Goth, extraordinarily bizarre band’s albums is how much (almost joyful) energy penetrates their sound and how sane they all sound in the program notes. Yet there is here also sorrow and a mind dancing with the possibility of losing itself. (more…)

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