More details – deeply disturbing details – dribble out on the foreclosure tsunami. But they’re hard to understand. Arcane acronyms overload the brain. Details — flotsom and jetsom — keep us from…
The October 5-6 PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment) annual conference in San Francisco promises to be a grand celebration. It should be. No one would have predicted the PRI’s enormous successes…
Yesterday’s post on Fordham professor Steven Stoll’s essay, ‘Agrarian Anxieties’, got me thinking about another Bible story of conquest and enslavement: the Babylonian captivity. In the 6th century BCE, the…
Among my many claims to fame: I am the only Pittsburgh Pirate fan sentient during the 1960 World Series who will admit he did not see Bill Mazeroski’s bottom of…
In the pleasant surprise category: iTunes10. What an improvement!! I like music mixes, and a three-hour drive to Vermont or a seven-hour train ride to Washington now sails by. Whether…
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