"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
I feel bad about Ronald Reagan’s passing, but let’s keep perspective. You heard the call for it here first – put Ray Charles on the ten-dollar bill. Can I get an Amen?
Amen!
You can hear "Hallelujah, I Love Her So" and a batch of other great early Ray Charles songs referenced in "The Atlantic Sound," one of the programs of the public-radio show Let the Good Times Roll, hosted by Jerry "The Iceman" Butler.
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Waxwing O. Confirm: Among the more colorful noms de spam in the junk-mail bin. Others: Angrier D. Wagged, Wigglier D. Signatures, and Tailwind G. Narrower.
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Oh, the humanity! The new ZeppelinNT actually sounds like a great idea. Hope it flies.
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Again, there is no obit like a Telegraph obit: I give you the late Earl of Romney.
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Evocative of Richard III's Little Princes in the Tower and of Edward Gorey, this haunting account of the fate of the Lost Dauphin of France has bothered me more than anything I've read in the past week. (Via John at the Six Bells)
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