Marcy Murninghan , proprietor of the Murninghan Post, has a fine piece on the late Joan Bavaria. Without Joan’s knack for starting organizations – among others: Trillium Asset Management, the…
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…
We tend to think of Abraham Lincoln speaking in sentences Biblical in their complexity and beauty with a deep debt to the King James Version. But Lincoln could make a…
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