March 1, 2008
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Old man for No Country
The flight from Heathrow to Dulles took more than nine hours, which was long enough to watch parts of seven different movies three times. Since one of those movies was No Country for Old Men, none of the other movies stood a chance. By the time we arrived, I had become a student of the… Continue reading
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With the emphasis on “by”
In the shortest and most famous speech in U.S. history, Abraham Lincoln summarized our democracy as one “of the people, by the people, for the people”. In the Internet age, we have the means to make that democracy work better than ever, to gather and exercize our power to participate — not just by voting,… Continue reading