Monthly Archives: July 2005

A weekend at Walsingford

If the stress, heat and noise of modern urban life are getting you down, how about a little Summer Moonshine? Relax with P.G. Wodehouse in the bucolic calm of Walsingford Hall in the county of Berkshire, … Continue reading

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We must fight them because they’re evil, not weak

So it comes. A major terror attack against a key U.S. ally, accompanied by wild rhetoric. What are we going to do about it?
The first suggestion of the usual suspects will be to cut and run, … Continue reading

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Look back in anger, or a history lesson before its time

Good morning, class. Last week we examined how the rich trove of artifacts from ancient Egypt still presents serious problems of individual interpretation and overall meaning. We turn now to the equally puzzling case of Kannada.
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