Theodore Dalrymple has done it again!! Thanks again, Paul, for turning us on to City-Journal. This particular article takes the cake. In it, he sets out to...
...from city-journal. Two fascinating articles about what should be done to replace the Twin Towers, and a look at what Barry and I have been exploring for a...
Paul Brake
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Nov 7, 2001 1:47 am
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hey -- just read a great, great article by david talbot in salon.com... i'd highly recommend it. it's called 'the making of a hawk,' and it charts his own...
Barry: Prepared this for my newspaper, the Keynoter. Best Cousin Tim...
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Jan 4, 2002 1:14 pm
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haha! what is it about beards, anyway?? anybody knows that beards are the universal symbol of ee - vill! (unless you're sean connery.) -- barry . . . . . . ....
In a message dated 1/5/02 1:41:38 PM, inpeople@yahoogroups.com writes: << haha! what is it about beards, anyway?? anybody knows that beards are the universal...
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Jan 6, 2002 8:41 pm
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here's a provocative article by michael lind, in the prospect. he argues that the idea of a liberal "west," standing out against fundamentalism, is a fallacy:...
a delightful article from faz.com, about the harry potter books. ... he goes on to discuss, epcot-style, some specifics, from one-person flying units...
In a message dated 1/9/02 7:38:53 PM, barry@... writes: << Happily, even within the limits of the real world's laws of ... Barry: I thought the...
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Jan 10, 2002 4:17 am
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... well, not even all Southern Baptists (capital S and B, there) would say that, though certainly it's in line with their hoisting up of the drawbridges.... ...
Barry, Elaborate a bit on this, if you would be so kind. I've read all four books and, while I enjoyed them immensely and am looking forward to the remaining...
... consider: it is a dark time in the world. an evil lord is at work, stealing, killing, and destroying. a child with a destiny is born into it, who ...
hey- saw these musings by bill wyman at salon.com -- Walk through the great museums or churches of Rome or Paris and marvel at a curious thing. You don't have...
a great article in partisan review about the relationship between civil society, democracy, science, protest, and individual thought -- as distilled in the...
Interesting questions, indeed. My first thought is a recent counter-example: Lord of the Rings. Though the film isn't a perfect one, there was a huge amount of...
... the ... level ... Guggenheim ... to detail.... ... takes ... churches take ... ...and, also, something that i just realized -- and i'm sure this has a lot...
hey all -- here's an article on a long-lasting, well-built machine. the b-52 is getting ready to be 50 years old this april, and the current fleet is 94...
all this talk about today being a palindromic day (and i hope you're planning something special for 8:02 pm tonight!) is a perfect preparation for an article...
a nice article here in new republic about the slippery notion of equal temperament in music. <http://www.thenewrepublic.com/121001/franklin121001_print.html> ...
Two essays for your consideration--Bush's Middle East policy, and a view of the root of the problems of the Catholic Church recently. ...
Paul J. Brake, Jr.
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Apr 3, 2002 12:02 am
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as for the bush doctrine article -- about the fact that america often wishfully talks like palestinians want peace and side-by-side living when in fact they...
.... i bring you.... <http://www.google.com/jobs/britney.html> ...the page that lists all the misspellings of "britney spears" that have been entered in the...
... Another "church doctrine" is that of the infallibility of the Pope--that one didn't even appear until one of the Popes in the 14th or 15th century ...
Paul J. Brake, Jr.
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Apr 3, 2002 10:12 pm
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... And speaking of the electoral college, I was interested in this series of 3 articles on the excellent Findlaw opinion website, Writ: ...
Paul J. Brake, Jr.
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Apr 3, 2002 10:22 pm
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Barry, Paul and the rest of the Gang: New revelations in the Boston Globe today. For the latest news on this crime and cover-up, see the Boston Globe online....
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Apr 4, 2002 12:21 am
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aack!! what a strange phenomenon!! by the way, for those who may check this out tomorrow after the headline's gone, the link is ...
In a message dated 4/4/02 2:21:49 AM, barry@... writes: << soooo, the church *did* know that all this was going on, and did realize that it was a...
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Apr 4, 2002 1:58 pm
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tim writes that the focus of this is *sin* rather than crime, and that any other group than the RCC would have been penalized criminally much much earlier. ...