This is going to be short and sweet this last day in May. Just saw that U.S. troops killed two women who did not stop their car at a checkpoint. Apparently they were in a big hurry to get to a maternity hospital where one of the women was ready to give birth.
The […]
Why I am delighted to be living in Canada!
[Quote, from Harvard doctor: “”Based on our findings, if I had to choose between the two systems for my patients, I would choose the Canadian system hands down.””]
Canadians healthier than Americans - study
May 31, 2006
By Maggie Fox
Washington - Despite complaints about long waits for services, Canadians are […]
One of my brightest students in 37 years of teaching at Queen’s, Neil Bearse never ceases to amaze me with his ability to do new things, and do them well. As a Knights of Columbus basketball coach, a computer whiz (no geek, he!), and a very able student, he excelled in the courses he […]
Courtesy of David Fenton, one of the funniest and most creative people I know, this set of metaphors reminded me of some of the “stretches” students made in the papers I’ve read in the past forty years of teaching university history courses…..
[Some of these are quite funny; the authors will probably end up in marketing […]
There’s so much bad news these days that one literally aches for some sunshine in the papers. Fortunately, Michael Kesterton at the Globe and Mail amasses daily interesting and often instructive tidbits of information and wisdom in his “Social Studies: A Daily Miscellany of Information.” Today he noted, among other bon mots, a report from […]
This from the New York Times, the most intelligent assessment yet that I have seen of the Duke lacrosse team and its current problems. Harvey Araton writes regularly for the Times, and here hits several nails squarely.
Comments, of course, welcome!
SPORTS OF THE TIMES….At Duke, Freedom of Speech Seems Selective
For their national semifinal against Northwestern […]
Nearly two decades ago, with winter schlupping all around, and the only area of creativity in front of an old computer (black and white screen, you get it), I decided that I had the idea for the advertisement of the century–an ad so good that Leo Burnett of Chicago had to see it. I felt […]