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This is the sound of a brilliant career reaching its apex. Unless Gloria Estefan surprises us with a turn no one could anticipate, Mi Tierra will go down as the best music she ever produced. Continue Reading »

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One wonders how a project like this gets started.

Were Gloria and Emilio lounging around the fireplace one night when …

Gloria: ¿Amor? Continue Reading »

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With apologies to all who have winced upon reading ‘God is my copilot’ on the back of somebody else’s car, this audio version of the Bible (Today’s New International Version) makes car time like, well, like having God as one’s copilot. Continue Reading »

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The New International Version of the Bible may well be the most researched and carefully edited English presentation of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek biblical texts every produced. Though it has generated successors, the NIV is still a worthy choice for the Bible reader. Continue Reading »

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LSJ‘, as this good friend of a book is called by specialists of ancient Greek language and linguistics, is a staple.

You wouldn’t skip breakfast before heading to work. You wouldn’t wear dress shoes without socks. You wouldn’t fail to own a well-worn copy of this classic Greek-English lexicon if your work immerses you in ancient Greek. Continue Reading »

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My company’s IT guy decided I work best when I have music in my office. Continue Reading »

Mendelssohn’s Elijah has been loved, hated, belted out by innumerable church and community choirs, performed with white-tie panache, and more often than not simply ignored. It’s a difficult work to categorize and even more challenging to review helpfully, since it often appears to be several works in one. Continue Reading »

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The New Revised Standard Version is a late-twentieth-century updating of the venerable Revised Standard Version. This reviewer has become familiar with the NRSV as the base English-language text of the New Cambridge Bible Commentary, a project for which I am writing the volumes on the book of Isaiah. Continue Reading »

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This is a perfectly adequate hole punch.

But unless you have space issues, pay a little more and buy the much better ‘Light Touch’ hole punch by the same manufactorer. It’s infinitely better.

Progress happens sometimes.

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This is a very cool product made with just three pieces of stainless steel. Continue Reading »