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This stylish, understated Kenneth Cole watch sports black-and-silver versatility. It goes great with blacks, grays, and blues. ‘Also not bad for a jeansy dress-down day, though that can be a bit of a stretch. Continue Reading »
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Psalms 77 and 78 both peer intently into the past, even to the point of employing the same vocabulary to access it, to render it recoverable by defining it with words.
Yet the two poets see a different picture. The author of the seventy-seventh psalm views a glorious past from within the painful longings of a present in which God has absented himself. Indeed, his pathos-filled language dares to suggest that God has changed. The deity of those good years no longer dwells with his people:
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The Spanish of Latin America’s madre patria—her distant motherland—is a dialect away from the daughter continent’s accent and cadence. The Spaniard beside me speaks it now, as we remove our pens, take off our belts, surrender our wallets, place our laptops flat on the belt and step through the metal detector, please. It is the first of a hundred micro-humiliations to be endured in what will be a long day of travel. Continue Reading »
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Gleason Archer was an amazingly learned man, representing a kind of conservative biblical scholar trained in the Albright School and its astonishing capacity for managing multiple Ancient Near Eastern languages, the growing field of ‘biblical archaeology’, and an inside-out knowledge of the biblical texts. Continue Reading »
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What a great romantic comedy! The young Hanks, the adorable Meg Ryan, the preternaturally savvy Ross Maliner, Rosie O’Donnell being nice.
It all came together with Seattle as its backdrop, that city of radio psychologists by the sea. Continue Reading »
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So here I am, middle-aged and a little too rotund, when along comes a guy friend almost as middle aged and nearly as rotund who challenges me to a one-year fat-off competition.
Being a Guy Thing, this is not about mutual encouragement or any healthy kind of accountability. This is war, with all the mutual humiliation that goes with such unrelenting hostility. Continue Reading »
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A tale of two friends and the Mag Lite:
Fifteen years ago, a friend living in Pakistan sent me a Mag Lite for my birthday in a vain effort to make me more ‘handy’. Though the larger cause was doomed from the start, I’ve been a Mag Lite user ever since, keeping one close at hand in each of the family cars and in each level of the home. Continue Reading »
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If the NCAA sanctioned an intercollegiate sport called Cranky Light Sleeper, my wife would be the Division I national champion. Meanwhile, I’m the guy who needs to chill and read for a while before drifting off to sleep, maybe even have a chat …
And they say us guys aren’t relational. Continue Reading »
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There is something amusingly ironic about the phenomenon. Keyboard master Friedrich Gulda plays pieces originally composed by J.S. Bach for beginners on a modern piano that Bach might have felt was a machine lowered from Mars. If he knew about Mars. Continue Reading »
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When an historian treats a great figure of the past or touches upon the canon of literature, his or her speculative choices gain credibility to the degree that he or she controls the data.
Stephen Greenblatt’s intensely speculative exploration of William Shakespeare is data-driven and anchored in a stupendous familiarity with the poet’s historical moment and the documentary fund that allows us access to the time and place in which the Bard strode large across the land. Or at least across London, where his profession was and his family was not. Continue Reading »
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Canter Bridge 