A quick question for all of you news junkies: Have any of you heard anything about President Bush and Iranian Pres Ahmadinejah being at the U.N. at the same time? Officials have separated them by a small gap, two hours, to avoid a verbal face-off. I found that in the London Times, but haven't seen anything in our Press. Has anyone seen anything?

I've run across these verses over and over again recently. Maybe they'll strike a chord ( Read more... )

Currently, this Pinsky translation of Paul Celan's "Love Crown" is one of my favorites. Hopefully someone appreciates it as much as I do. I'll just give a couple lines ( Read more... )

You are a Black Coffee
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A friend of mine who lives in Mass. returned my call Wednesday about what kind of housing options were available out there. I've decided- very last minute- to go to Gordon-Conwell in the fall to take Greek and Theology classes (MA). I felt I was being pushed in a different direction last year around this time, and I guess it was Gordon ( Read more... )

"I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. No matter how many times we reopen King Lear, never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry, all woes forgotten, at a jolly reunion with all three daughters and their lapdogs. ( Read more... )

So I've run into a few road-blocks with the whole Gordon plan. Trying to find an apartment on the North Shore isn't easy. I've gone through all the classifieds and nothings really turned up (all Gordon housing has been full, not surprisingly, for months. I just didn't really know what I was doing, and, thus, lost out there ( Read more... )

am I part of the cure, or am I part of the disease?

So my memorial day reference is limited to quoting a past president. It is, however, good to keep in mind.

"When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." -JFK, 1959

I knew no words to share with anyone ( Read more... )