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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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: ...
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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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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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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. ...
In the discussion about priests and the church, Barry wrote: "suppose that a priest was found guilty of embezzlement -- and that furthermore several priests...
i read the articles you recommended, paul -- very very interesting. the last one was predictably utopian (talking about how 11 states or 4 candidates could...
**note that I will carefully phrase things so as to give nothing away** Episode II! same wonderful, frustrating, paradoxical lucas job as always: visually ...
hey all - take a look at these strongly expressed thoughts, and ask yourself if you can guess who wrote it.... ... In our age, the idea of intellectual liberty...
are you a james surowiecki fan? he writes the financial page for the new yorker, and gosh darnit every single thing he writes is really interesting and...
where would ordinary educated nonspecialists be without our twin towers of long-form journalism, the new yorker and the atlantic? here's an atlantic article...
Excellent article, Barry. Thanks for sending it. I have been aware of this debate for several years, at a very surface level. But this is the most in-depth and...
a fascinating interview with an author who looks at the 'creative class' as an index of the energy of a city, and explains why austin took off and detroit...
In a message dated 6/10/02 8:52:06 AM, barry@... writes: << it got me thinking about san antonio (a place many of us on this list are connected to),...
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tim - my bad, there; i didn't represent his thesis entirely accurately. he's not claiming that there's a *cause* -- only a *correlation*. so, he says that the...
a friend just wrote, in the slack grammar that characterizes informal internet communication, "that is just apart of how i think." that got me to thinking: how...
here's an article in by ryan lizza that talks about the federal funds that florida is getting these days -- huge amounts of special deals and favors designed...
i read that article with great interest, until it became clear that this was another superstitious worry-piece that i thought had died out in 97. some...
"As a philosopher, Socrates regards all opinion, no matter how conventional and confused, as potentially partial knowledge." That's Paul Cantor, author of...
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