Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Ruth Gledhill, in the course of her coverage of the scandal of expenses by British Members of Parliament, observes that journalists are no prize at keeping their expenses down. Her own experience "on another newspaper" (she currently blogs and writes for the Times) runs like this: I remember many, many years ago, and on another …
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Originally written in 2005. Dear Graduate, (name withheld because the Internet is a crazy place) My wife and I were well pleased with your achievement of valedictorian. She was hoping that you, her former piano student, would achieve this. But the piece in the paper (sorry, surfers, paid subscription required) was a surprise. I'll get …
One of the running "legends" in American life and art (yes, snobs, I know that "American art" is held by the cognoscenti to be an oxymoron) is that of what I'd call the "rube moving to town," or better the big city. He or she leaves the farm or other small places and goes through …
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Tull fans may remember this line from A Passion Play: We pray for souls in Kentish Town. Evidently someone's prayers along these lines got answered, as the former well-known sceptic A.N. Wilson attests: A week ago, there were Palm Sunday processions all over the world. Near my house in North London is a parish with …
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One of the most popular features of this site are the More Than Dreams videos, from the Muslim world. We now offer them in Flash format, the same technology that YouTube uses. Unfortunately, YouTube limits the video length to ten minutes, and these are considerably longer than that. Check them out.
I find myself frequently have read one book and coming to the realisation that I need to read another. For example, my trudging through St. Thomas Aquinas’s Disputed Questions on Truth and Summa Theologiae convinced me that I needed to read the Bible through from cover to cover, which I forthwith did (and have repeated …
I'll bet ACORN never thought of this (until now): These events (Indonesian elections) are also the venues where the terms and conditions of traditional vote-buying are laid out by campaigners. Election monitors in the past have noted that while accepting money to vote for a particular candidate is commonplace, vote-buying has had little impact on …
I'm reposting this today primarily because the incident at Galatoire's (a very well known restaurant in the French Quarter of New Orleans) took place on an Ash Wednesday which is, IMHO, the best day to eat out in the Crescent City. But I also think that the comments on prosperity teaching needs reiteration. Orignally posted …
The title of the story is the solution: White House Now Plans Limited Bank Aid Package The Obama administration has decided on a new package of aid measures for the financial services industry, including a bad bank component, and is expected to announce it next Monday, according to a source familiar with the planning. Since …
...the Cold War would have ended a lot sooner: In the early 1970's, when the Brezhnev era seemed most full of promise, an elderly Frenchman travelled from Moscow to Khabarovsk on the Trans-Siberian railway. After only a few hours at the eastern end of the line he boarded the train again for the long journey …
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