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A reader from a small town (possibly a town of disenfranchised small people), commented that my list of presidential imperatives (post, Janu...

Which story tugs at the heart more? The goat that paid for a girl’s education, or the lawyer who befriended a lonely, dying man? A small pe...

A good review is usually a good sign that a book has merit. Unless the review is in the NYT: This from a recent statement by Erlanger: ...

Not a great threat, I know. But the trivialization game (post on January 23) continues on the op-ed page today: ..some reporters though...

My grandmother (1901 – 1994) was the most apolitical person I know. My grandfather (1886 – 1973) was completely immersed in politics. She b...

Our limited capacity to invent or imagine or absorb new words often leads us to describe newly emergent circumstances with borrowed words an...

The essay on the half dozen recent books denouncing Bush’s foreign policy ( NYT Sunday Book Review ) is brutally honest. We live in a time a...

My impeccable technological acumen [a joke, for sure] allows me to find that I’ve had some visitors to this blog who needed to locate sites ...

Relax, in the case of the Deans, the answer is yes . Just goes to show, Bush is on the ball with this one: save marriage counseling for the ...

Why did I make light of Berlusconi (post January 16, see also NYT today ) and the Italians’ obsession with their Prime Minister’s appearance...

I spent the afternoon listening to appeals of university nonresidency determinations. One such student missed being a resident (and therefor...

On NPR, we hear/read the report on the Division of Youth and Family Services in NJ – an agency that made headlines when it was discovered la...

After a second evening this month at another book club meeting… [Webster’s definition of junkie: Main Entry: junk•ie Variant(s): also...

From the blog of a law student at HLS: Fun with the State of the Union and a Word Frequency tool I found on the Internet: 1. The most...

Those of us living in Poland in the 50s, 60s, 70s remember broadcasts on TV where party officials convened and spoke to the public of recent...

Now that's a deeply Midwestern title, isn't it? In the alternative, I could say "Nueske's heads the heap!" Today...

Sometime in December I submitted an essay I had written, for review at a major publication. It was a long-shot, but sometimes one just feels...

The first day of class. 42 semi-attentive faces – half-dozen with lap tops opened, ready for (a game of spider solitaire) note-taking. I beg...

My Warsaw friend, Agnieszka, sent me a link to a Polish news weekly which, in addition to having interesting news of Poland, has a detailed ...

Just so you know, great minds on this side of the ocean have been thinking of ways to get the younger generation hoppin’. We don’t want our ...