The Atlantic Monthly came up with this list:
1 Abraham Lincoln
He saved the Union, freed the slaves, and presided over America’s second founding.
2 George Washington
He made the United States possible—not only by defeating a king, but by declining to become one himself.
It is commonly held that old people are no longer interested in sex. Indeed, young children and grandparents are stereo-typed as sexless creatures. Now comes the first scientific study that investigates just how sexually active old people are. I am looking forward to a study of children under the age of ten.
Continue ReadingThis comic musical is a lot of fun! It is not the history lesson about the struggle to integrate black people into mainstream America that captured my heart. I also did not laugh much. The film is not particularly funny. But the music and dancing is so infectious that many a times I wanted to leap from my chair and start moving my entire body. The choreography is flawless. My body is still moving to the sound of this wonderfully sexy film.
Continue ReadingBy MERVYN ROTHSTEIN (NY Times)
Ingmar Bergman, the
New evidence suggests that old Europe provides more opportunities economic mobility than the U.S. Even Canada comes out ahead. Read this interesting article by Clive Crook.
Rags to Rags, Riches to Riches: Maybe it
Continue ReadingQueen Elizabeth is arriving in Washington in a few days. The state dinner at the White House is billed as the social event of Bush’s presidency. George Tenet is not on the guest list. The press is full of stories about whether George Bush will be able to behave as one is supposed to in the presence of the Queen. What nobody seems to worry about is that the Queen might try to pay respect to the manners of her host country and smack George Bush in the face. “Georgie that’s for Iraq.”
The picture on the right is the Queen on her first visit to the U.S. in 1957.
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