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Conversing with dead people isn't all it's cracked up to be. The other night I had a brief edgy chat with Robert Lowell, the great poet who taught me poetry writing in the 1960s and died a few years later; I don't believe there was a connection. I do this sort of thing a lot lately--talk to the dead, live in the past--probably because I am getting on. But it's mainly a matter of preference. I would rather have a conversation with Lowell than with most of those who are so-called alive--though...
...afternoon, he met with Mass. Hall staff members, and held a meeting of University vice presidents and assistant provosts in Mass. Hall’s Perkins Room before attending a brief reception to mark...
...snarky e-mail about our co-worker. All he did was read it. Then he told me that for the good stuff I should have spied on his home PC. That's where he does his most interesting web surfing, he said. He went off on a brief discourse about the various kinds of hard-core pornographic pop-ups that show up when he visits soft-core sites. Joel also told me that he keeps all his financial data on his home computer. Interesting. Come to think of it, I've always wondered about his salary. Joel...
Eisenberg, who studied traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) while a medical exchange student in China in 1979, expressed great respect for TCM, and outlined the brief decade-old CAM movement in the U.S., contrasting it with the nearly 4,000-year-old history...
...wife and says the perils are greater than ever. "We might be put in prison, we might be killed. If North Korea finds out you got to Seoul, they will find your relatives and kill them." The map is put away and another missionary leads the group in a brief prayer. One of the women preparing to leave is crying quietly. It is pouring outside, and soon the river will be rising. But the refugees won't stop coming...