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A classic. Spitzer on cover of New York magazine
As Donald Luskin says on his blog, this has got to be the “Magazine cover of the year. … And it’s only March.”
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The Last Supper – artwork and interpretation
Here’s the first of nine interesting interpretations of the Last Supper. Hit the link below the picture for the others – I especially like 2, 4, and 6. You have to read the note to #9 to figure it out! The Last Supper – 1 of 9 | Christianity Today
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Fr. Eugene Keane
I just got an email that this priest had died. I knew him a little, and then Brigid and I had some very pleasant contact with him. Tim and his birth mother stayed in his home (it was below Kingston, NY) before Tim was born. I doubt if we had seen Fr. at all in…
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Tragic death in Croton
Yesterday morning there was a terribly sad and shocking accident at the Croton-Harmon railway station, as Theresa Fiorentino, the operator of the newstand in the station was struck and killed by an Amtrak train. Like everyone else who ever commuted to New York, I saw the lady all the time back when I was a…
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St. Patrick’s Day
I liberated this picture from the Althouse weblog. Here’s a feature in today’s Wall Street Journal that’s timely – New York and the Famine – WSJ.com On this St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland is peaceful and prosperous. The animosities of the past will have little bearing on the great parade that travels up Fifth Avenue…
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First hike of the season; up Sugarloaf Mountain
Last Friday morning we had our first hike up a hill. We made the 2 mile round trip up Sugarloaf, a couple of miles north of Cold Spring. Joe and I had gone up the 900 foot high “mountain” last May. Tom Faranda’s Folly: Tom and Joe’s Sunday climb up Sugarloaf We decided it would…
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Great article on the inner life of Mariano Rivera
The Yankee closer and future Hall of Famer. In today’s NY Times. How to conduct oneself when you’re a superstar. Rivera’s a Closer With an Open Heart – New York Times Over and over, Veras used the word dream to describe how it felt to be teammates and friends with his idol. They talk shop,…
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Good baseball article: how to throw a changeup
I’m not a NY Mets fan, but here’s a really neat feature about their newly acquired superstar pitcher, Johan Santana. And he’s a rarity – a pitcher whose strike-out pitch is a changeup. Santana’s Changeup: Hitters Never See It Coming – New York Times Six years after Santana began meticulously honing his four-seam grip as…
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A recovery story
Recovery from sexual assault – from Christianity Today Very powerful – you have to read the whole thing Calling on the Saints | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction Some have suggested that the church was partly to blame for my rape. They have a point. My husband and I had moved into…