Tag: wimsey collection
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February 18, 2007 10:42 AM EST --
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The Special Investigation Report Team at the Non News Network
New York
The Department of Health and Human Services announced today that Americans are no longer required . . .
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September 10, 2007 07:16 PM EDT --
The Wizard has recently acquired, through perilous exertions and an astonishing exercise of wits, an amzing compendium of useful advice and spells.
Not wishing to hoard this wisdom from those . . .
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March 04, 2007 01:16 AM EST --
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Xanthe recently published a brief account of an Ash Wednesday visit to St. Xavier's, and Wurdzgurl recently published a handsome printing of Eliot's "Hollow Men". . . .
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November 25, 2009 09:35 AM EST --
I wrote this article last night, exactly one hundred years after the Turkey was postmarked.
One hundred years ago today, young John Waterman received a Thanksgiving card from his friends in Albany, . . .
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May 16, 2007 08:45 AM EDT --
David McGill, one of the few gifted Gather News Correspondents and someone who should know better, tagged me to contribute Five Positive Things About Myself.
I just offered Five Positive Things on . . .
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August 27, 2007 11:55 PM EDT --
I just read the news about Senator Craig (True American is already delighting the anti-fundamentalists . . .
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September 27, 2007 11:34 PM EDT --
It is distressing to see good articles, charming stories or anecdotes told in a well-crafted manner using superior language skills, . . .
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December 16, 2007 04:52 PM EST --
Dannielle S, recently published a thoughtful article challenging the need to give "things" or "doodads" for Christmas. There are many ways to express love, appreciation, . . .
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January 30, 2008 01:07 AM EST --
They are mostly gone; they are all doomed.
No more buried insults, bon mots, or hidden barbs.
In order to prevent one's articles from being linked to random rubbish, one . . .
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March 15, 2008 10:45 AM EDT --
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This article is written in response to a poignant story by Kate C., the remarkable journalist, regional historian, and raconteur who sometimes wears a wedding dress.
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April 18, 2008 07:25 PM EDT --
A well-established prinicple in the history of psychology,especially industrial psychology, is called 'The Hawthorne Effect". The term was coined by Henry Landsberger (1955) in a critical . . .
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June 14, 2008 09:26 AM EDT --
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Among the never-used postcards in my collection are a number of linen cards(named for the textured paper that resembles fabric) in very good condition.
These cards include . . .
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September 27, 2008 04:27 PM EDT --
This is a very large, illustrated article that should not be opened with a dial-up connection.
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July 25, 2008 09:14 AM EDT --
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This article was first published in January of 2007.
I removed the article in July of the same year.
I am re-posting it here, with slight editorial revisions, . . .
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August 28, 2008 01:18 PM EDT --
In a recent article, I described my acquisition of some old photos in Texas.
Boys In Texas
Several month ago, my businss required several visits to Austin, Texas.
Outside of the city, . . .
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August 29, 2008 08:35 PM EDT --
As an Unvalued Gather Member, and one who is also clueless and indifferent, I learned belatedly of the Summer Bonus Picture Points extravaganza.
Unvalued Gather Members - . . .
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February 19, 2007 09:43 AM EST --
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At least since the 1960's, arguments have been made about the contribution of Christian theology to environmental degradation. Lynn White, in his 1967 . . .
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April 05, 2007 11:37 PM EDT --
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It was rainy and grey when we arrived at the Gare de Nord in Paris. The city was packed with students from all parts of France and of Europe, . . .
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April 29, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
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In an edition of Harper's magazine in 1920, Robert Frost published one of the enigmatic little poems of deceptive simplicty that came to define his style.
Twenty-five . . .
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May 01, 2007 10:04 AM EDT --
I have long loved the simple, "pared-down" poetry of Emily Dickinson. It is as fierce, plain, stark, and uncompromising, as any Yankee . . .
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