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Just as California’s Huntington Library broke the scholarly stranglehold on the Dead Sea Scrolls by making the unilateral decion to publish the photographic plates of which they were stewards, so Naxos can be credited with making affordable classical music available to us masses, who still whince when we pay for a CD. Continue Reading »
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Because this 1,314-page book covers such a wide range of majors and the average family or college aspirant is likely to have narrowed his or her interests down to just a few, this book is best suited for the reference shelves of a high school guidance office where a diverse cross-section of readers can access it. Continue Reading »
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I remember the first time I heard Point of Grace. The experience came though a set of headphones in the music section of a Medford, Oregon, department store. I had no idea that female vocalists today could sing such tight harmony with such a driving beat (upon occasion). I was sold. Continue Reading »
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As though from some cobwebbed corner of your memory, these Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young tunes emerge as an instantly recognizable memory. The harmonies could belong to no other than this inimitable sixties and seventies band, acoustical as it gets, tightly harmonic as any folk or Rock & Roll voices could possibly become intertwined. Continue Reading »
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The problem is really about as simple as it gets: you need moisture in the air of a room that has too little of it. Continue Reading »
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One of the facts about today’s economy that I find amazing is that I can buy a powerful, effective, little machine like this for under twenty dollars. It doesn’t seem quite right. Continue Reading »
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It is difficult to know what pleases God.
Religions the world over have diverse opinions about how to achieve divine felicity. Often the prescription involves some measure of intentional human suffering, as though celestial happiness were a zero-sum game that demands the shrewd balancing of joy and misery in order that everyone should have his barely adequate share. As with most negotiated settlements, everybody ends up grumpy. But at least the worst extremes of heavenly ire can be stopped by this means. Continue Reading »
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‘That’s monte’, the local Costa Rican grass guy says in answer to the offering my wife gingerly holds before his expert eye. ‘You’ve got to get rid of all of that.’ Continue Reading »
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Our family lived for many years in a Central American country where the water was iffy. We became Brita users then in the remote hope that it would keep some of the bad stuff our of our stomachs. Continue Reading »
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Let me begin this brief review with an awkward confession. When I wake up each morning, I stare into this little Black and Decker contraption before and for longer than I stare into my wife’s eyes. Continue Reading »
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Canter Bridge 