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Going on vacation for a while, blogging will be light. Hope to be back full-time in January. Meanwhile, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Received this email from Raymond Lloyd, who thought our readers might find it of interest: Abusing Power to Suppress Truth: Letter 1: 24 F...

On Amazon's review page for Kindle, twice as many posts give the new device 1 star v. those who give it 5 stars. I'm an Amazon stock...

  This was the view from our room in New York's Times Square Hilton a couple of weeks ago. Workers were putting the finishing touches on...

According to Jackson Diehl in today's Washington Post , Human Rights Watch apparently isn't watching the Venezuelan president's ...

Writing in today's Washington Post, the Pakistani singing star says he doesn't like Musharraf--or Bhutto: Yet Benazir Bhutto is no ...

According to Maciej Zaremba, in today's Washington Post: The United Nations could argue that it lacks the funds to pay judges. But then ...

From City Journal : George Orwell would have understood the attraction of privileged young people to the Peace Racket. “Turn-the-other-cheek...

From ABC News' website: In this "regime adjustment" the Bush administration has found allies amongst Pakistan's elite, whi...

Ann Coulter likes Pervez Musharraf better than Benazir Bhutto: The media adore Bhutto because she went to Harvard and Oxford, which I consi...

 

...an opera inspired by five paintings of Edward Hopper . We attended the world premiere of this new opera--more of a singspiel , actually--...

Edward Rothstein reviews the New York Historical Society exhibit on Lafayette's 1824 tour of the USA , in today's New York Times . W...

In New York's answer to The Moscow Times , the Russian immigrant newspaper, Novoye Russkoye Slovo, in an interview with Oleg Sulkin (tr...

Delbert Mann, the director of "Marty" and "Heidi", among other classics, is remembered in today's Los Angeles Times...

To all our Indian and Nepalese readers. More information about the festival of lights from Wikipedia: Diwali today is the homecoming of Kin...

By some strange coincidence, I just got this via email...

From The Washington Post : Indeed, in a single week, the president of Georgia -- Mikheil Saakashvili, or "Misha" to his friends --...

Our recent trip to New York reminded this writer of Washington Irving's story of Rip Van Winkle. I was born and raised in New York City...

From the British Prime Minister's Lord Mayor's Banquet Speech: It is no secret that I am a life long admirer of America. I have no ...