Maine Gov. Paul LePage is the former mayor of Waterville where he earned a reputation for bluster and brawling (behind pay wall). LePage, The Boston Globe reported on March 7, has…
As the Libyan regime teeters, the media have focused on the uses to which the Gaddafi family put the country’s wealth. From Friday’s papers we learn a good deal about…
Like many of my peers, I stopped reading The New York Times Tom Friedman years ago largely because of his views on trade. His March 2 column, ‘This is just…
In ‘The Wire’, Idris Elba shone as ‘Stringer’ Bell, a drug ring’s #2 who looked like a young executive, took business classes but who’d ordered the wrong man’s killing. Elba’s…
Good friends invited us over for dinner followed by a DVD. Turns out we watched the wedding concert in honor of the Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden which took place…
From MovieLine via The Daily Beast: the remarkable room in which the future George VI works with his therapist in ‘The King’s Speech’ had seen other film productions. Says MovieLine:…
Seventy-five years after the Civil War began, Sinclair Lewis, America’s first Nobel laureate for literature, feared another national cataclysm: a Fascist takeover. In the course of It Can’t Happen Here…
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