Month: January 2010

From the first paragraph of the Harvard Crimson's obituary for Ihor Ševčenko, a distinguished emeritus historian and classicist at Harvard:Ihor Ševčenko once said that some historians, in their compulsion to…

That's Washington, DC., lawyer Mark Greenbaum's suggestion in an LA Times editorial, "No more room at the bench."  (By which I think he means, no more room at the bar.)Greenbaum…

Melissa and Larry have been married for over twenty years.  They have four biological children and nine adopted children (some who have special needs).   The couple have been foster…

In response to Eric’s post on workshop culture (which, in turn, is partially a response to my prior post on workshops) Glenn Cohen provides some very interesting comments.  So I…

Should this blog be called theaviary.org or some such?  (theaviary.com's already been spoken for.)  That's a question I had while reading George Fletcher's new novel, The Bond.  Because Fletcher's main…

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Loren Steffy, business columnist for The Houston Chronicle, suggests that the BCS title game might be named "the Bailout Bowl," as Citigroup is one of the sponsors.  His editorial is…

Well, now that we've rounded the new year's bend, it's time to start thinking about things to look forward to in 2010....We'll have the new editions of Dan Filler's lateral…

Well, there's a course in wine law at Berkeley -- so why not?  I missed the following news because I was buried in exams in December -- a law firm…

Some photographs of the Birmingham Friends Meeting, a key site of the Brandywine Battlefield and below it the Birmingham Octagonal School.                  …