The next day, our snowy landscape had turned to ice. I again left the house early, to allow for slow travels. My little car has a manual transmission and front-wheel drive, both of which are very helpful in bad driving conditions. In ten years, I have never had a big problem. Until...
My tank dangerously low on gas, I eventually made my way back to Snail Road, stopping every few minutes to drink some water. It’s a good thing I’d had the sense to bring water with me. Otherwise, I might have collapsed somewhere in the lunar-like landscape and drifted off into eter...
But in fact, it was the trip I remember best, the traveling, the looking around, the changes in weather and landscape, the very simple and subtle interactions with people along the way. I was an adult. That’s the difference between adults and children. The critics who say nothing ...
district mathematicus and professor for mathematics at the Protestant Stiftsschule (sort of university) in Graz died, and the authorities enquired in Tübingen about a replacement, Kepler was recommended for the position. Kepler
Not so where Palestinians control the landscape. Let’s see: sand or oranges? Which do I prefer? Ideologically, I’ve never heard Israel say the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim, yet almost daily I hear Muslims from all corners of the world espouse this attitude toward individual Jews an...
He postulated that in some ways, Asian American film festivals have achieved everything they set out to do when they first started up back in the 1970s, which to him meant increasing the visibility and voices of Asian Americans in the US filmmaking landscape. In some ways I think he’s ...
They are brain food for the printed page, a tangible and aesthetic pleasure in the all-digital landscape. They are gatekeepers of diversity and culture, encouraging intellectual engagement at the same time. Despite attacks by digital natives and others who have not lived through the changes in ...
51 At Tun-huang, in cave 61, there is a huge mural that depicts the various sights of Wu-t’ai shan in the tenth century: the landscape with its buildings, temples and pilgrims. 52 Later literature attests to Mañju’srii’s continuing residence at Wu-t’ai shan: a biography of...
Travelling the length of the loch, we climb up into the Highlands, over the unique, desolate landscape of Rannoch Moor and the Black Mount to majestic Glencoe, one of Scotland’s best-loved glens, site of the 1692 massacre of the MacDonald clan. We stop in the Fort William area for lun...
“Trump is a felon. Here’s why that should matter in the 2024 race.”The Washington Post “Injustice: First Felon President.”New York Post Ms. Bogert goes on about how the word felon had fallen into disuse, and that “the impetus behind the sudden widespread use of the word ‘felon’...