Tag: Reading
March 8, 2009
How do we go forward?
A few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal ran an article on the dangers of clinging to past ways of doing business. Contrary to what aging boomers like me believe, […]
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Alchemy, chap 3, cont
Don Pasquale and Ernesto were sitting on her big stuffed couch, her old teddy-bear nestled between them, its big black eyes staring at me pathetically. I was frozen for an […]
READ MOREFebruary 21, 2009
And the answers
1 & 2: Loveleen Tandan is listed as co-director for Slumdog Millionaire, but her name was not mentioned once in these reviews. Whether it should be is a minor controversy […]
READ MOREFebruary 16, 2009
And the winner is…
It’s that time of year, winter bleeding into spring, when we celebrate Black History, Women’s History, and the Oscars. So here’s a little quiz to get you in the mood. […]
READ MOREFebruary 5, 2009
Alchemy, chap 3, cont
3 “You have five minutes to explain why you didn’t tell me that Cardozo is dead. Because that’s how long I’m going to wait before I call the […]
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The iPod and the cellphone and the YouTube that we know
May just be passing fancies And in time may go But the book is here to stay Or not. My editor tells me this is the last time the company will […]
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Your copyrights and google
In 2004, Google made arrangements with the University of Michigan to digitize their entire library, some seven or eight million volumes. Google planned to make this library available to the […]
READ MOREJanuary 10, 2009
Alchemy, chap 2, In which the Expected Occurs
2 Don Pasquale and his cronies lived in River Forest, an old suburb just west of Chicago, where Frank Lloyd Wright houses and a charming little shopping street make […]
READ MORENovember 12, 2008
What should Barack read?
On November 1, the Chicago Tribune invited its two heavy-hitter writers, Aleksander Hemon, and Garry Wills, to come up with a list of required reading for the new president: five […]
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