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• Being human.
• Love in Wartime: the epistolary romance of a Los Alamos scientist and a Radcliffe junior destined for poetic renown.
• Mortify Our Wolves: the struggle back to life and faith in the face of pain and the certainty of death.
• What Menus tell us.
• Olympic leftovers.
• Six ways of looking at corporate greed.
• Letter to Posterity: a passion for philosophy led me to my first career, and a passion for art led me to a second, as a critic.
• Questions of being: what if our minds are the ultimate reality?
• The Voice Is Ready to Sing.
• All Scotland Waits for Her: an inspired British documentary featured an unforgettable locomotive, and the work of two of the 20th century's greatest artists.

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• Mortify Our Wolves: the struggle back to life and faith in the face of pain and the certainty of death.
• Trapped in a golden age.

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• Presidents and poets.
• Love in Wartime: the epistolary romance of a Los Alamos scientist and a Radcliffe junior destined for poetic renown.
• Letter to Posterity: a passion for philosophy led me to my first career, and a passion for art led me to a second, as a critic.
• Liberty Is a Slow Fruit: Lincoln the deliberate emancipator.
• We Shall Go to Her, but She Will Not Return to Us.
• The Clintons up close: a friendship between two couples yields insights into a presidency and a marriage.
• When 2 + 2 = 5: can we begin to think about unexplained religious experiences in ways that acknowledge their existence?
• Haggin.

  Music critic Bernard H. Haggin Bernard H. Haggin was one of the very first music critics who recognized the musical significance of jazz and respected it as a musical form. He was also one of the very rare ones who was truly a listener, who discounted all else except the music as it was performed. ...