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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
Great music and full-dimensional sound at download price, cardboard covers with original artwork: 40 popular titles from ECM's almost four decades offer aficionados the opportunity to plug gaps in their collections and invite new listeners to explore one of the great catalogues in jazz. "Touchstones" give low-threshold access to a label which, according to the New York Times, provides "one current...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
In 1995 many African-Americans saw OJ Simpson as an innocent man persecuted because of the colour of his skin. This time, he is unlikely to receive similar sympathy
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Wow, this was a huge week for new releases and great reissues. We still haven't caught up but there's lots of new stuff for everyone. Go to JazzLoft There are 12 more titles added to the ECM Touchstone series this week including CDs by John Abercrombie, Jan Garbarek, Bill Frisell, Marc Johnson, Pat Metheny, Paul Motian, Charles Lloyd, Chick Corea, Enrico Rava and more...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
CRANSTON, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Touchstone Crystal announces an official transition to fully finished jewelry made with Crystallized™ - Swarovski
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Banking Business Review (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Touchstone Investments, a mutual fund company, has expanded its strategic partnership with Navellier & Associates by merging the existing assets of the Navellier Millennium International Growth Fund into the new Touchstone International Growth Fund.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Touchstone Adds International Growth Fund to Its Lineup
CINCINNATI, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Touchstone Investments expanded
its strategic partnership with Navellier & Associates this week by merging
the existing assets of the Navellier Millennium International Growth Fund
into the new Touchstone International Growth Fund.
While Touchstone Advisors will assume advisory responsibility,
Navellier...
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
If we have to name a Muslim who was the touchstone to test the secular pretensions of India, it would be Sheikh Abdullah without doubt. Not Maulana Azad, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Asaf Ali or any other but only Sheikh Sahib, popularly known as the Lion of Kashmir. I had the privilege of meeting him many times, being instrumental in publishing the English translation of his autobiography, Aatish-i-Chinar...
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GOD, CHRIST: QUESTIONS & FAITH (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level. William F Buckley Hat tip: Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments: A Buckleyan...
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A Dozen Steps (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
From today’s Daily Reflection; “Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily we A.A.’s can agree with him…” And I ought to be a spiritual giant based on that :) “When on the roller coaster of emotional turmoil, I remember that growth is often painful.” Makes [...]
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Blog Meridian (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Image found here. Today is Wallace Stevens' birthday. Long-time visitors here know that Stevens' work is an important touchstone for this blog, so I would be remiss if I didn't post a little something in honor of this man on his day. Below the fold: a couple of links to past posts of mine in which Stevens figures prominently, along with a poem of his. First the posts, which also happen to be...
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Carla Nayland Historical Fiction (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Edition reviewed: Touchstone 2008, ISBN 978-0-7432-7731-0. 557 pages. Set in England and the Burgundian Low Countries (approximately modern Belgium, the Netherlands and parts of northern France) in 1461–1480, Daughter of York tells part of the story of Margaret of York, sister of Edward IV and Richard III. Most of the main characters are historical. Margaret’s ladies-in-waiting are fictional,...
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TruePravda (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Touchstone’s Anthony Esolen gives us a quite profound — and amusing — list of rules for finding whom to marry, and whom to not.
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Alliance of Women Film Journalists (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
AWFJ highlights films made by and about women Wednesday, October 1 Religulous - Lionsgate Friday, October 3 Beverly Hills Chihuahua - Touchstone Pictures The Express - Universal Pictures How to Lose Friends and Alienate People - MGM Pictures Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist - Sony Pictures Possession - Yari Film Group Flash of Genius - Universal Pictures An American Carol - Vivendi Entertainment
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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Judy Blume bubble bath! The author of that inimitable adolescent female literary touchstone Forever , which we consumed whole in fifth grade in one furtive afternoon in our bathtub , brings her erotic genius to the 92nd Street Y, where every woman born in the ’60s and ’70s turns up to pay her respects. Later, another moist clump of literati throw an Obama fund-raiser: Salman Rushdie and Jhumpa...
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they must need bears (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Laurie King , who writes Sherlock Holmes marysuefic professionally, is on my radio talking about her new book Touchstone , which she says is not science fiction because she makes an attempt to describe how what she calls the "woo woo factor" (one of her protagonists has a psychic ability) might really come about. Ahh, innocence.
