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There’s a lot of stuff – some may refer to it as minutiae – swirling around in the old brain today. The Mark Twain quotation at the end of this particular column is an apt ...
With Donald Trump’s rhetoric, it’s often difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff, the statements-of-intent from the ...
For what shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? For Zsa-zsa Korda, the self-styled magnate at the center of Wes Anderson’s new mercantilist pastiche, The ...
Why is punctuation important? Writing without punctuation is like living life without breaks and pauses. A small mark with ...
When Deborah Rutter became president of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 2003, she inherited an institution with debt from a ...
When you concatenate text, you surround the text with double quotation marks so Microsoft Excel recognizes it as text. Otherwise, you'll receive an error. Excel then ...
The document, recalled his untutored protégé, “brought me an interpretation of much that before had been only inarticulate ...
The American director goes behind the scenes of Breathless’ historic production for a film that embraces Jean-Luc Godard’s cinephile passion and formal imagination.
I’m a kindly reader, by which I mean “largely undiscriminating”. I consider myself on the writer’s side, wanting to cheer ...
Michael idolized Magic Johnson as a child and took the nickname “Magic” for himself. He even had the name put on the license ...
The court majority sided with Representative Laurel Libby, who filed an emergency appeal to restore her ability to vote while her lawsuit over the punishment plays out.
The nation's top court on Tuesday ordered the Maine House of Representatives to restore the speaking and voting rights of Rep ...