Braudel Posted here (above) — both as Word documents and PDFs — are four articles which I wrote for the reference bookCurrent Biography: Chaim Potok novelist Current Biography, May 1983 A.J.P. Taylor historian Current Biography, November 1983 Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie historian Current Biography...
Even though many of the people I’ve met, at work or elsewhere, don’t make a strong connection and probably know nothing about me other than my resume stuff, my experience is different from yours, and that’s why I found your comment odd (“people don’t care about you beyond the s...
The big change to Roger’s racket came after his shock second-round loss to Stakhovsky at Wimbledon in 2013. Roger added both Hamburg and Gstaad to his schedule and then announced he would be playing with a brand new racket. This was a prototype model, and there’s not a whole lot know...
bustling enterprises, and a coach went to London almost every day. They travelled overnight, interestingly. There were 4 or 6 places inside the coach, and 2 places “outside” in the basket, at half-price.
I have to be honest about the fact that I absolutely love to argue. I am good at it. I have a quick and logical mind in conversations and I have always been able to win debates. Pretty much anyone who knows me well can confirm my ability. It is a terrible skill to posses. I hav...
t be fixed. And your initial category of regret is foundational regret. These are often early life decisions like not completing a degree, not saving money when you were in your 20s, and choosing some sort of a path that really now at this stage of life can easily be altered. In fact...
Cannes golden boyXavier Dolancouldn’t hold his latest until next year’s festival, choosing instead to World Premiere his English-language debut at his home country’s #1 festival. Love or hate the Quebecois enfant terrible of the cinema scene, you can’t deny the cast he’s assembled here...
Mendelsohn when he told her a take she had done was great. “It wasterrible,” she told him, “and I did it on purpose, andyousaid it was great.” So often undervalued in her professional and personal life, Kahn was sensitive to all kinds of inattention and threats of abandonment, but...
we could have had a virus that had those characteristics. So if this pandemic with relatively low death rates — terrible but relatively low compared to what it could have been and relatively low transmissible still enough to cause a pandemic but lower than it could have been — if we’ve ...
Well, things didn’t exactly turn out that way, did they? Sure, everyone uses Uber and the company has disrupted the taxi industry and changed transportation as we know it. But honestly,Uber is a terrible business model and even worse investment. ...