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Kiko's House (Free subscription) | 02/23/2010
Given my general state of disgust (see post below), I have little inclination to wade into the report by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility that basically absolves Bush Torture Regime legal architects John Yoo and Jay Bybee. Besides which, we've known for a couple of weeks that t he report would state that the men merely used "poor judgment" in crafting memos...
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CEO Blog - Time Leadership (Free subscription) | 02/19/2010
I recently read John Hersey's great book called Creating Contagious Leadership - 9 Habits that Inspire a Leadership Culture . I love the concept of contagious leadership and I figure even if someone doesn't deliberately go about trying to be contagious, the leader definitely will be. I have seen in organizations where the leaders is slow and lack a customer service ethic and this tends to permeate...
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Listing Through Life (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
The heading of this post is the final sentence in The Wall, by John Hersey — a novel about a group of Jewish friends in the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland. And The Wall is the final book on the Racine Library classics list that I started working on back in the late [...]
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Scrivener.net (Free subscription) | 01/13/2010
The intrusion of real life into my life prevents much more. [] Why I love the law ... By this argument, the downside of a particle-accelerator disaster that destroys the planet -- assuming it is quick -- is nothing. In a related thought, if you want to protect yourself from the risk that the world will be destroyed, you can join the wagering at Long Bets on the "it will be" side, and then...
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silencing the bell (Free subscription) | 12/27/2009
We have reached the end of the year and I feel pretty chuffed that I made it. It was a bit doubtful at times when I got distracted with the crafty stuff, but it is good to go out with a bit of literary high brow. I have enjoyed looking back to see what a huge variety of styles and subject matter I have got through during the year and hope I might have inspired a few passers by the try something new,...
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 12/23/2009
"A Noiseless Flash" is how journalist John Hersey titled the first chapter of Hiroshima, his much-praised 1946 account of the detonation of the atomic bomb. Though witnesses some twenty miles away claimed that the explosion was as loud as thunder,...
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Dolphin Hotel (Free subscription) | 12/17/2009
Less than one and a half kilometres from the hypercenter, Shukkeien, laid out on the instructions of the Lord of Hirohsima 326 years previously, was almost completely levelled by the blast and resulting fires. The rainbow bridge spanning the centre of the pond, modelled, like the rest of the garden, on Hangzhou's West Lake, was the only structure to remain intact. Thousands of survivors sought refuge...
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Diary of an Eccentric (Free subscription) | 12/14/2009
After a busy weekend full of Christmas shopping and science fair projects, the time just flew by. It's already time for another Mailbox Monday , the weekly meme hosted by Marcia from The Printed Page where bookworms share the titles they received for review, purchased, or otherwise obtained over the past week. Please forgive me for not including the book covers today. I still have a review for a blog...
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silencing the bell (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The contents of John Hersey 's book Hiroshima first appeared in the New Yorker in August 1946, the editors choosing to dedicate an entire issue of the magazine to the series of articles which he had been commissioned to write. The introduction to this slim volume describes the incredible response that the article received around the world and the impact that it had. The dropping of the first atomic...
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frankwu (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
The TAFF (Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund) auctions END IN A DAY ! (For those of you who don't know, TAFF sends - in alternating years - a delegate(s) from North America to Europe or from Europe to N. America, to attend a science fiction convention. The point of the auction is to raise funds to make this possible. The folks running for TAFF this year are the team of (1) Anne KG Murphy and her fiance Brian...
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Achenblog (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
I need to start reading again. I am ashamed to say that I read only one of the books on The New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2009 list. But it could have been worse -- I could have been skunked. And I'm glad to know that, in extolling the virtues of David Finkel's book "The Good Soldiers," I have been proved RIGHT ONCE AGAIN. [You may have noticed this pattern over time. I say...
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
The Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund is a venerable institution that sends sf fans from North America to Europe and vice-versa, to bridge the world's fandoms (there are other funds that bring together fans from other parts of the world). Frank Wu, Anne KG Murphy and Brian Gray are fundraising for this year's fund, and they've solicited many writers -- Charlie Stross, Nalo Hopkinson, David Brin, Elizabeth Bear,...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Andrew J Rotter offers an absorbing account of the bombing of Hiroshima, says Alex Larman Andrew Andrew Rotter notes towards the end of his sagacious and impeccably researched account of the creation, use and aftermath of the atomic bomb that detonated on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945: "More than 60 years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, people still have nuclear nightmares." The...
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