Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Torso of an Archaic Apollo

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We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a l...

meet the mormons

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In 1861, at a meeting of the New Orleans Academy of Sciences, Dr. Samuel Cartwright and Professor C. G. Forshey gave an amazing account of t...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

the sound of a shaken leaf

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One of the “covenant curses” is curiously descriptive of the jittery culture of fear in which we now live: But if they will not hearken unto...

the new reality

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In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications...
Monday, March 23, 2009

As part of our continuing

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series on Asian painting, isn't this wonderful: Pine Forest by Hasegawa Tohaku

Here's Brigham:

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Description by his counselor in the presidency: Salt Lake City, Utah Territory To the New York Herald Dear Sir: I can’t undertake to explain...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

the penitent magdalen

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" /> georges de la tour (1630). Easter treat.

morgan filly

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Catching a catfish with a gourd

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by Josetsu (15th century) Zen monks believed that meditating upon an impossible task provided a useful means to enlightenment. Worked for me...

The lingering stench

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In 1992, just after the fall of the Soviet Union, Jonathan Brent seized a unique opportunity that, if not for him, would doubtless have been...

what would I have done, asks Hitler authority

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The attempt that came closest to toppling Hitler, that of Claus von Stauffenberg in July 1944, was the culmination of a conspiracy of extrao...

Psalms 12:4--"our lips are our own"

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Our new consumer advocate/reporter, Marvis Wilcoxson, gives a rare "five seahorse" (§§§§§)rating to this new informative site: htt...
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Yi Chong (1541–1622) Ink Bamboo
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

"Science & Technology" by B. Richards

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Our field reporter, Ms. Bethany Richards, has been reassigned from "general interest" to our science and technology beat. She just...
Monday, March 16, 2009

from the lazlo letters:

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From: Lazlo Toth ...... January 12, 1991 To: President, Preparation H Dear Mr. President, I have seen commercials for your product on televi...

Thus the World Was Lost

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From Milton Mayer's book, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45: Mayer tells the story of a chemical engineer, who brought M...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

a privilege to believe

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"To be a rock, a bastion of surety, revelation must be something on which one can count and receive in every occasion of real need. I b...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

update on stefano

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A sympathetic photographer recently sent me this candid shot of her highness. I guess things aren't working out so great with Stefano af...

another younger brother makes good

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International race car driver Andreas Mikkelsen at work.

those loveable, wacky romans!

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Celebrated classics professor Mary Beard has brought to light a volume more than 1,600 years old, which she says shows the Romans not to be ...

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Fascinating book, The Slave Trade by Hugh Thomas, covers the Atlantic slave trade from 1440 to 1870. It was a literally filthy business from...
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a day that will live in...?

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was December 21, 1970, when Richard Nixon's secretary informed him that the "King" wished to see him immediately. Nixon report...
Friday, March 13, 2009

history lesson

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Although the US signed international agreements opposing forced repatriation, after WW II, Roosevelt, Churchill and cronies, under a program...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

U.S. Finishes A 'Strong Second' In Iraq War

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BAGHDAD—After 19 months of struggle in Iraq, U.S. military officials conceded a loss to Iraqi insurgents Monday, but said America can be pro...

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When I was a young man, I served as counselor to a wise district president in the Church. He tried to teach me. One of the things I remember...
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Jesus Christ paid the price and will satisfy the demands of justice for all who are obedient to His teachings. Thus, full forgiveness is gra...

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Richard Lewontin—an atheist who thinks matter is all there is—in the New York Review of Books (January 9, 1997): “Our willingness to accept ...

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[Members of] organized religious communities...can participate in the polite conversation of the day. Habitually, they talk and listen to me...

happy days, for some

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German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: “We learned from the worldwide economic crisis of the 1920s (1930s) that an economic crisis can ...

portrait

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It Is Not the Fact That I Will Die That I Mind

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but that no one will love as I did the oak tree out my boyhood window, the mother who set herself so stubbornly against life, the sister wit...

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When the distinction between natural and supernatural . . . breaks down, . . . one realizes how great a comfort it had been--how it had ease...

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[Walking back from superb fly-fishing on Magic Island, in my favorite shoes, I think of saints and mystics.] Catherine of Siena, for example...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

things I never knew

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A few deep thoughts from our new Hawaii reporter, Kona Lowell: I never knew how pretty you were until I saw you with someone I really hated ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2009

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Saturday, February 28, 2009

have dinner with your family

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The most serious and dangerous challenge for Christians today is not precisely the loss of faith and religious practice among the fallen awa...
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In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never...

OK, OK

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Alright, you got me. As an alert reader pointed out, no moratorium was placed on photos of other members of the Jessica Simpson family, so h...

attention readers:

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behind the scenes there has been just an unbelievable amount of sniping about Jessica Simpson. Although I'm sure Bethany meant well, she...

Now this is the truth

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Now this is the truth. We humble people, we who feel ourselves sometimes so worthless-so good for nothing. We are not so worthless as we thi...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

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