“Say a word for…”
# Perhaps that is why — more than their sex lives or bank accounts — chief executives keep their libraries private.
# “Everyone reads everyone,” said Professor Miller, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
# Prince’s priorities are obvious. The main one is getting his music to an audience, whether it’s purchased or not.
# Ah, the difficulties of being human in the age of the new science museum!
# “I slept three hours in the last two days in the rain,” she said after emerging from the store with her copy. “I’m going to go and read one chapter and then go to sleep.”
# France is this bizarre country where if the writers are often failed men of action, the men of action are always failed writers.
#When it comes to changing The Journal, “I also think he’ll go slow, at least at first,” because Mr. Murdoch “doesn’t want to jeopardize the brand he’s buying.”
# Rorty had a knack for making everything that is difficult in philosophy seem easier, more agreeable, less of a big deal.
# Hello Kitschy
# But Brown and other advocates of the terror-as-crime view are not necessarily under any delusions about jihadist thinking. Rather, they maintain that preventing terrorism requires winning the hearts and minds of actual human beings
# Why did you decide on a small-town setting instead of the big city? Big cities are harder to draw.
#Now, as a National Intelligence Estimate released last week makes clear, the Bush White House finds itself in a similar predicament. Al Qaeda has reconstituted itself in the wild west tribal areas of Pakistan. It is stronger than at any time in years, and it is actively plotting new attacks.
#But could voters accept a president who believes in the Book of Mormon? What about one who believes in the Old Testament but not the New? Or one who venerates Muhammad, or Buddha?
Así, entre artículos del NY Times leídos enteros, a mitad, abandonados nada más ver el titular, guardados para luego, no se pasa la vida, esa cosa vaga que en su indefinición no duele (apenas), pero sí se mata esta idealmente perfecta mañana de domingo…
