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This is a perfectly adequate hole punch.

But unless you have space issues, pay a little more and buy the much better ‘Light Touch’ hole punch by the same manufactorer. It’s infinitely better.

Progress happens sometimes.

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This is a very cool product made with just three pieces of stainless steel. (more…)

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Question: How does a man with such an ordinary voice and diminutive stature toss off a whole anthology of agile, smart hits with an edgy title and huge listenability?

Answer: He writes. Good grief, but the man writes. (more…)

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Before there were computers, before there were even ball point pens, Edwin Hatch and Henry Redpath churned out this fundamental work on the Greek Old Testament.

The laborious care–one wants to say love–which they brought to the first translation of the Hebrew Bible is a testament to that species of linguistic rigor and respect for the text that is too rare in the humanities and even in biblical studies these days. (more…)

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This product will be adequate for in-car charging of your Blackberry 8700c unless you have a large car and need a slightly longer chord. The chord on this project is shorter than on other similar projects.

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This stylish, understated Kenneth Cole watch sports black-and-silver versatility. It goes great with blacks, grays, and blues. ‘Also not bad for a jeansy dress-down day, though that can be a bit of a stretch. (more…)

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Psalms 77 and 78 both peer intently into the past, even to the point of employing the same vocabulary to access it, to render it recoverable by defining it with words.

Yet the two poets see a different picture. The author of the seventy-seventh psalm views a glorious past from within the painful longings of a present in which God has absented himself. Indeed, his pathos-filled language dares to suggest that God has changed. The deity of those good years no longer dwells with his people:
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The Spanish of Latin America’s madre patria—her distant motherland—is a dialect away from the daughter continent’s accent and cadence. The Spaniard beside me speaks it now, as we remove our pens, take off our belts, surrender our wallets, place our laptops flat on the belt and step through the metal detector, please. It is the first of a hundred micro-humiliations to be endured in what will be a long day of travel. (more…)

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Gleason Archer was an amazingly learned man, representing a kind of conservative biblical scholar trained in the Albright School and its astonishing capacity for managing multiple Ancient Near Eastern languages, the growing field of ‘biblical archaeology’, and an inside-out knowledge of the biblical texts. (more…)

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What a great romantic comedy! The young Hanks, the adorable Meg Ryan, the preternaturally savvy Ross Maliner, Rosie O’Donnell being nice.

It all came together with Seattle as its backdrop, that city of radio psychologists by the sea. (more…)

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