‘Do you find yourself thinking a lot about your hips lately?’, Heather asks me with a completely straight face and no hint of irony.
It is difficult for a middle-aged man who has not once in his life contemplated his hips to respond quickly to such a question. After a moment’s hesitation, I manage to muster an awkward, ‘Umm …. not really.’ Continue Reading »
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It is difficult to imagine that so few years ago academic and professional writers painstakingly typed and checked (or typed and didn’t check) reference after reference. EndNote takes care of the hassle of managing multiple works and citations while writing a manuscript. As long as you type things in correctly the first time, you’re good to go, from title page to the last page of your index. Continue Reading »
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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. Continue Reading »
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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. Continue Reading »
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I could not carry on with life as I know it without the Economist.
No hype. It’s that good. Continue Reading »
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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. Continue Reading »
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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. Continue Reading »
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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. Continue Reading »
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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. Continue Reading »
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First Things editor Richard John Neuhaus is famous for two things. Continue Reading »
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Canter Bridge 