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December 31, 2003 Happy New Year! I am planning to some cleaning and re-arranging of papers tomorrow in my office. I don't want to suffer the fate of the man who was trapped for two days under a pile of reading material in his apartment. Thanks to Garzon Times for pointing out the story at cnn.com.
According to a survey of 630 Domino's Pizza
delivery drivers in Washington, D. C., "people with 'Dean for President'
bumper stickers on cars in their driveways tipped 22 percent higher than
people with 'Bush for President' bumper stickers. People with 'Bush
for President' bumper stickers were three times more likely to order
meat-topped pizzas than 'Dean for President' drivers."--from a Reuters
report in the Boston Metro.
December 29, 2003 On the political quiz at madrabbit.net, I scored a 15, placing me near Bill Clinton on the scale. December 27, 2003 "The Bush administration is using elevated terror alerts for political gain while confusing Americans and accomplishing little, Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich said."--from an Associated Press article. Thanks to "Muslims for Kucinich" for pointing out the article.
December 26, 2003 "Engraving an anti-homosexual message in the Constitution would be a sorry legacy for the Bush administration. The president should be ashamed of himself for even thinking about trivializing the Constitution in this way."--columnist Marianne Means.
December 19, 2003 Some Harvard faculty and students are displeased that the Harvard University Health Services have given their extra supply of flu vaccine to the Cambridge public health department, says an employee as quoted at Brian Flemming's weblog.
December 15, 2003 The Crusades: A History of Armed Pilgrimage and Holy War, by Geoffrey Hindley, is a short (260-page) survey of the Crusades. The book contains so many names and dates that I often had the impression that when reading one sentence I was immediately forgetting the sentence that had preceded. The names of the various emperors, kings, dukes, counts, and popes often meant little, if anything, to me. Ultimately it is all pretty much a jumble in my mind. The book might have been better if it had been four times longer or four times shorter. Having read the book, I still have no idea what sort of government existed in the Moslem countries in the relevant centuries, nor do I have any idea what the difference is between Sunni and Shiite. But if I remembered, I’d know who led the forces into battle at such and such a place on such and such a date.
December 12, 2003
December 3, 2003
"New Haven officials are considering
an ordinance that would ban 24-hour convenience stores from operating in
city neighborhoods and limit various businesses from remaining open
between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. The City Plan Commission approved the ordinance
Nov. 19, and the Board of Aldermen will hold a committee meeting on the
measure on Dec. 23.
"According to [a] survey, between 66
and 70 percent of black students at [Harvard Law School] are women,
despite the fact that the school’s student body is only 44 percent
female overall," says an article in the
Harvard
Crimson.
According to a weblog written and managed by students at the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis, a Christmas tree in the atrium of a building at the school was removed because of the objection of a faculty member. A Christmas tree is not a religious symbol. People who successfully demand removal of Christmas trees may be inviting a backlash that will do their cause, whatever exactly it is, more harm than good.
December 2, 2003 An inexpensive skin-care gift set
CHEAP KISSES
The 2004 Spoleto Festival USA, to take
place in Charleston, South Carolina, from May 28 to June 13, will
include performances of the epic 18-hour Chinese opera The Peony
Pavilion, of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, and of
Vincenzo Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, according to a press
release at
businesswire.com.
Bishops and cardinals who had been expecting a special showing of Mel Gibson's movie about Jesus tonight at the Vatican will have to wait, says a Reuters article. In an e-mail sent last night, the production company asked the prelates to wait because "the film is only weeks away from being finished.''
The staff of the
Harvard
Crimson take an unusual interest in being able to buy liquor on
Sundays in liquor stores in Massachusetts. Why shouldn't six days
a week be enough for shopping in liquor stores?
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Rosslyn: Guardian of the Secrets of the Holy Grail, by Tim Wallace-Murphy & Marilyn Hopkins, would seem from its title to be a book about Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. The book, though very pleasant to read, actually gives relatively little information about the chapel or about the St. Clair family who own it. The book discusses in a somewhat general manner the esoteric tradition in western Europe, with some attention to the Knights Templar, and advances the theory that there was a pilgrimage route of initiation from Santiago de Compostela in Spain that proceeded through five sites in France and ended at Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. If you wish to read anything that you can get your hands on that alludes in any way to the Knights Templar or to the esoteric tradition in Europe, then this short volume is worth reading. I would not recommend this book to anyone seeking an introduction to the subject matter.
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