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one of the best film treatments of war ever: Band of Brothers (HBO series on DVD)

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Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have honored the Greatest Generation as it deserves with this superb based-on-a-true-story film version of Easy Company’s long march through various kinds of warfare from D-Day through the fall of the Third Reich. (more…)

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family: Hotel Rwanda (DVD)

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Hotel Rwanda shatters complacency, so long as—in the words of Nick Nolte’s UN coronel—we don’t ‘gasp and then turn back to eating dinner’.

Don Cheadle turns in a memorable if unpolished star turn that anchors this survival tale.

That’s precisely what Hotel Rwanda is: a survival tale. A true one, to be sure, and not unlike many that remain unrecorded and unthanked because their own heros perished among the million corpses left behind by this most inexplicable genocide. (more…)

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the most reliable news and analysis in the English language in the world, bar none: the Economist

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I could not carry on with life as I know it without the Economist.

No hype. It’s that good. (more…)

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excellent and balanced look at one of the lesser Tigers: Chris Baker, A History of Thailand

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The authors of this compact Cambridge University Press history of Thailand deliver on their promise. This is a vintage CUP product: balanced, full of measured opinion, error-free in typography and layout, sweeping without shallowness.

There is not a better one-volume entrance to this fascinating but lesser-known South East Asian Country. (more…)

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the tradition and the saying: Sigmund Mowinckel, The Spirit and the Word. Prophecy and Tradition in Ancient Israel (Fortress Classics in Biblical Studies)

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This entry in the Fortress Classics in Biblical Studies series brings to fresh light some classic exemplars of twentieth-century Old Testament criticism, no small contribution in a moment when the discipline’s fast-fragmenting methodologies threaten biblical scholars with amnesia. (more…)

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a common touch and a devoted fan base: Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine

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Kiplinger’s Personal Finance is a worthy challenge to Money magazine for a monthly dose of economic and investing trends, helpful financial tips, and—in KPF‘s case—a kind of populist advocacy for the little guy investor. (more…)

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Coffee, tea, Forbes, or Fortune?: Fortune magazine

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If you need to keep abreast of financials and business on a monthly basis, Forbes and Fortune are the two conventional choices. (more…)

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Don’t leave home without this intellectual journal: First Things

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First Things editor Richard John Neuhaus is famous for two things. (more…)

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Not your father’s newsweekly: World magazine

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As an insatiable news junky and practicing Christian reader whose work takes me to many countries each year, I recently caved to my wife’s insistence and began to read the World subscription that a relative had given us. (more…)

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recreating a man: Psalm 51

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A man’s bones ache under the guilt he acknowledges. His heart lies shattered.

That the psalms should present King David as knowing this, indeed, that they should have him say so in the first person is testimony to the enduring, transparent genius of the biblical David. Even the king—reader of Torah, spokesman for justice—’went in to Bathsheba’. Is there anyone, one asks in the shadow of this, who has not had his Bathsheba? Has anyone not known the grating rot of bones, the fearful terror of a heart that’s been crushed? (more…)

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