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Sunday, August 14, 2022

"Be secret and exalt"

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     "Now all the truth is out," William Butler Yeats writes. "Be secret and take defeat/From any brazen throat."       ...
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Saturday, August 13, 2022

Northshore Notes: Howl at the Moon

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      I don't know why it never occurred to me before. But I was reading today's report by Northshore Bureau Chief Caren Jeskey, and...
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Friday, August 12, 2022

Librarians get the job done

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     The Richelieu Reading Room at the National Library of France in Paris is beautiful. No, you can’t get in, unless you are a registered r...
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Thursday, August 11, 2022

Flashback 2011: Spiders can bite you in many ways

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          Monday I finally did something I've been meaning to do for months — walk through the Chicago Botanic Garden with its president...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Trump isn’t toast yet

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Gen. Douglas MacArthur signs the Instrument of Peace during Japanese surrender ceremonies on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Sept. 2, 1945. (...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2022

A couple of crows on a tree in my backyard

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     Between my backyard and the village property beyond is a line of trees — healthy pines, with the exception of one very dead tree that n...
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Monday, August 8, 2022

Another reason not to work in Indiana

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Smithsonian Institution      Congratulations! After years of gerbil-on-a-wheel effort at the Feinberg School of Medicine, you’ll be getting ...
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