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Striving for the better within the circle of the commonplace.
At first, I was thinking of writing something along these lines: "Would you evaluate the current capabilities of U.S. intelligence gathering by considering the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor?" Then it occurred to me that after Sept. 11, it's probably...
I ordered a dictionary of classical Greek (I don't know very much about the grammar, but I know the alphabet well enough to read inscriptions) so I can finally read this book. As I grow older, it seems to me...
The story on Neanderthals I mentioned last night is online now....
Big article on Neanderthals in the new National Geographic -- it doesn't seem to be online yet. Neanderthals continue to fascinate me. There are very few species who don't have relatives within their genus -- Homo Sapiens is one. My...
Ted Gup says it best. After citing previous keystone kop antics by investigators looking into the 2001 anthrax case, he writes, Against this background, who could be blamed for imagining that an innocent Ivins was hounded to his death? Can...
It's very difficult to know where to begin critiquing a piece like this, which claims that the death of Yugoslavia had less to do with the likes of the extreme nationalist Radovan Karadzic than with the plotting and machinations of...
The Washington Post finally develops some skepticism (after uncritically relaying the suicide theory peddled by attorneys for some of the prison guards in the death of Ronnie L. White: Five medical examiners from across the country interviewed by The Washington...
Apparently they survived the persecutions of the middle ages. I've been rereading Norman Cohn's work Europe's Inner Demons, (Amazon link here), which describes their persecution in some detail. I had no idea there were modern Waldensians, let alone American ones....
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