Posted in Book Review, tagged nonfiction on June 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Pleasing introduction
A copy of Dress Your Family etc was given to me by a friend, with an enthusiastic recommendation, and served as my intro to humorist Sedaris. A collection of family and daily life-based stories, some are LOL funny, some are poignant, and a few are merely snide. Among my favorites are the [...]
Posted in History on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been wondering for the past 5 years why this hadn’t arisen as an issue. Shades of the ’60’s. Forewarned is forearmed, as they say. Heads up!
clipped from www.military.com
Military.com|by Colin Clark
In an exchange sure to send ripples of anxiety through the all-volunteer military, the Senate’s senior defense spending member asked Defense Secretary Robert [...]
Posted in Arts and Culture, Life, Movie/DVD Review, tagged mystery on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Town and gown
For over a century, the small New England town of Haddon has maintained an uneasy relationship with its prestigious prep school. Some of the coldness has been remedied by a huge donation made by the academy for a local health center. So when one of the scholarship students is found face [...]
Posted in History, tagged Austen, books, news on June 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I think most fans of Jane Austen, and there are legions, like to think of her as having experienced love in her short life. Now a miniature of the young man she is believed to have cared for has been placed on the art market. This morning, an article was posted in The Guardian about [...]
