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HEY, DUKE, THIS IS A HOCKEY GAME, NOT A CULTURAL STUDIES SEMINAR. You say it was a basketball game? The faithful didn't have to taunt "Duke can't skate."
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A NEW BACH CHRISTMAS CANTATA.It is an entrant in the Chicago Tribune's New Holiday Classics contest. Voting remains open through December 6.(Via Northern Illinois University.)
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SOMETIMES IT IS SIMPLE. The dean at Anonymous Community takes a road trip. By default.(My one-step process for making train travel more appealing: speed it up. Okay, Stephen, have at it.) That link, and a companion link at Inside Higher Ed, has sent numerous wise and worldly readers this ...
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OBSERVATION OF THE DAY. King Banaian follows up on Recant, or Be Excommunicated with an alert to observers of higher education. If what Climategate teaches is the inherent flaws of the peer-review process, that would be worth as much as sticking another fork in the hockey stick. It relies on ...
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OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH THE RUSSIANS. The Moscow to St. Petersburg Nevsky Express has been bombed, with serious loss of life.Moscow Station in St. Petersburg.The bombing occurred on a remote stretch of track, not easily reached by ambulances or med-evac helicopters, and a second bomb that exploded ...
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THE DIAMOND JUBILEE. The prototype 4-14-4 rolled out of Lugansk in December, 1934.Moscow, January 1935.The model might be in running condition by January.Cold Spring Shops, November 2009.
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MARKING OFF. Happy Thanksgiving. (If the Wall Street Journal runs the same piece the Wednesday in advance of each Thanksgiving, why not I?)I give thanks for your readership and your comments.Spare a few moments thanks for the young people in harm's way around the world, for the people in ...
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REMAINDERED GOODS ON A LARGE SCALE. Book Review No. 45 features Sam Walton: Made in America. In previous years, I've offered reviews of How Wal-Mart is Destroying America and Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism, works that recite grievances about the corporation. Mr Walton, not ...
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COMPOSER RIVALRIES. "Peregrinus expectavi pedes meos in cymbalis" means "I really don't like Igor Stravinsky". More here and here.
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THE REAL TECHNOCRATS? The Overhead Wire asks readers to rethink the rails-dirigiste-roads-emergent view of urban development. I'm always a bit surprised (but shouldn't be) when I read an article like this about how extreme conservatives believe that folks interested in smart growth and livable ...
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INSTEAD OF GUANTANAMO. The national government contemplates purchasing the Thomson Correctional Center, a state prison that Corruptistan hasn't had the money to put into service. The editorial board at the Rockford Register Star approves of the plan. I am still weighing the arguments. The ...
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OUR NEIGHBORS AT WAR. More Northern Illinois graduates at Ft. Hood. Two other 2008 graduates were present at Fort Hood during the shooting.They were Lt. Laura Dorado and Lt. Mike Cramer, said Steve Ashpes, chair of the Department of Military Science. He added that neither were injured as a ...
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OUR NEIGHBORS AT WAR. SSgt. Miguel Angel Valdivia, a May graduate in mathematics, was recalled to active duty in October, returning to Fort Hood on 31 October.He is recovering from injuries sustained on 5 November. Instructors in the math department at NIU said they were surprised to learn ...
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A NEW COLD WAR INITIATIVE. Fruits and Votes picks up a Wilson Quarterly article on the state of high speed Passenger Rail in the world. Since entering service in Japan in 1964, fast trains have been gaining in speed and popularity. The first Shinkansen, or bullet train, traveled between Tokyo ...
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TEAR. DOWN. THIS. WALL.It is too soon to hope that Kaliningrad will become Königsberg, or Wielbark revert to Willenberg.
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SAD NEWS FOR THE STATE LINE. In the Fort Hood shootings, two northern Illinois soldiers, Francheska Velez and Michael Pearson, and two southern Wisconsin soldiers, Amy Krueger and Russell Seager are among the dead. Another four Wisconsin soldiers are among the wounded. Cruel February comes again.
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BITTER CLINGERS. The Soviet Union is eighteen years past its sell-by date, and Stalinism is a great way to turn a poor country into a destitute one. On November 7, some people still have occasion to stage a Communist parade.Global Times photograph.I'm looking at those greatcoats and wondering ...
