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Surviving perihelion

 I’ve been daydreaming about the comet Ison a lot the last few days, fascinated by this celestial body that has been making interesting headlines. Ison

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The Book Thief

   Our fascination with the Holocaust seems unending, in part because nothing in the world’s recent past offers us such perfectly sculpted heroes and villians.

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Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a time abounding with associations, where each item on our often copiously supplied dining table connects us to something, or usually more regularly,

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Viva La Vida

It has been a full and demanding week for me. I was at my office until 9 PM and was up this morning at 5

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Seeing People

During this Thanksgiving Day week here in the United States, I am reminded of an anecdote I ran across some years ago.  The true story

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JFK

Everyone 55 or older remembers it—remembers where they were when they heard that President Kennedy had been shot. That the threshold of recollection is so,

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