Posted in reseña on September 1, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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In an historical moment when the ‘1967 borders’ are referred to as a simple fact—except in the offices of Hamas and their compeers—it is necessary to be reminded that these lines in the sand were the provisional conclusion of six days when blood ran plentifully around and upon them and nothing seemed obvious. (more…)
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Martin Gilbert does not write small books.
It’s a good deal that we have this man around at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and that we can read the large works he gave us in the twentieth. (more…)
Posted in clarity, reseña on September 1, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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The classification of temperament is as at least two millenia old. Some of this effort falls decidely in the the half-baked side of the pan. Yet much of it is decidely helpful in understanding ‘the way we are wired’ and ‘the way we process things’, to use two very modern metaphors of personality typing.
Maybe you’ve never thought of it like that. (more…)
Posted in textures on September 1, 2007| Leave a Comment »
It is common for modern-day Christians to suppose that ease and wellbeing are signals of God’s favor. Even indications that one is ‘doing the right thing’ are often assumed, primarily, to depend upon one’s ‘peace’ or at least upon unopposed forward progress.
The apostle Paul would not have recognized this convenient correlation. (more…)
Posted in two hippos make an island, tagged Chicago, travel on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Let’s face it, every minute counts. You don’t have extra ones waiting to be spend in queue at a toll booth with smarter drivers whizzing through at speed to the left of you.
So buy the iPass. (more…)
Posted in two hippos make an island, tagged Chicago, Indiana, travel on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Although a handful of stays in a given chain’s hotels—like a single robin and the anticipated Spring—does not a success story make, it at least points in the right direction. During a recent overnight in the Merrillville, Indiana, variant of the Country Inn and Suites, I was reminded that my experience with this brand has been consistently positive. Given the extreme variation that sometimes marks different franchises of the same corporation, this is worth noting. (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, turning the fly, tagged fishing, fly fishing, reseña on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
One of the endearing features of the monthly magazine Fly Fisherman is its tag line: ‘the leading magazine of the quiet sport’. (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, tagged colleges and universities, reseña on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Guides to colleges tend to convey either statistical reportage derived from the college itself or anecdotal subjectivity provided by the school’s students and other constituencies.
The Barron’s Guides lean strongly in the first of these two directions. (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, tagged colleges and universities, reseña on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
The Princeton Review Best 357 Colleges is a fun read.
Whether it’s an accurate selection of the 357 best or a clear portrayal of what the chosen few have to offer is another matter. It’s impossible to tell, though the valuable commentary you get in the Princeton Review is a good supplement to factual date you can get from the schools in question and from other sources. (more…)
Posted in reseña, tagged film, Jerry Seinfeld, reseña on August 31, 2007| 2 Comments »
I was living in England when Seinfeld was in its third or fourth season, blissfully unaware of what people were talkabout with this ‘Seinfeld’ thing when I read in a magazine that you’d have to be hidden in a remote corner of the Amazon to not be into this show. I obviously was in a more inhabited and arguably more sophisticated place than Amazonian corners tend to be, so I tuned in.
Actually, my wife, two boys, and I tuned in.
Good grief, did we get hooked! (more…)
Canter Bridge 