Posted in reseña on August 15, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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I have never before become excited about an office product. Then, in search of an ordinary three-hole punch to replace the one knicked by my wife and kids, I happened upon this item in the office supply aisle of my favorite Costco store. (more…)
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I see Sharper Image products frequently in airline catalogues, filled with breathless and absurd reassurances about how long you’ve waited for a product like this to change your life. I chuckle. (more…)
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I can remember having the thought that people who use electric pencil sharpeners are a sad, pathetic little lot. (more…)
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After you use a toaster oven like this, you’ll wonder why you ever owned an ordinary toaster. (more…)
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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…)
Posted in clarity, denkschrift, rrythmia on August 14, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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…)
Canter Bridge 