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A bit of persistence has uncovered the source of the word kopite. It comes from the name of a terrace, that is, a set of stands at the end ...

* The web site of the American Institute of Philanthropy has put up this web page on THE BEST WAY TO ASSIST IN PROVIDING EMERGENCY RELIEF OF...

A nice guide to cleaning up a corrupted computer. If you've time, that a look at the comments as well as the article itself. An intere...

CNN has the following useful list of international aid organizations are accepting donations to help victims of the powerful earthquake and...

Whatever it means, the word "kopite" is closely associated with the Liverpool Football Club. There's a "kopite of the we...

The press has lots of excellent appreciations of Susan Sontag's life and works. I've placed links to many of them below. When I f...

From Cliopatria , here is a post on the South Asian earthquake with a good graphic on the path of the tsunami: MANAN AHMED: Earthquake O...

In an annual tradition, the Magazine Section in the Sunday New York Times gives obits for people who died during the year. Here's the l...

The Modern Language Association holds its annual meeting this week in Philadelphia and, as usual, participants attempt to outdo one another ...

There's an interesting article on Academy Awards for actresses in the Orange County Register. Here are some excerpts: Thursday, Decembe...

Along with its bestseller lists, Library Journal does a weekly compiliation of The Books Most Borrowed in U.S. Libraries . And what are t...

Washington Post Buys Microsoft's Webzine By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 22, 2004; Page C01 ...

A Visit from Saint Nicholas (In the Ernest Hemingway Manner) by James Thurber Issue of 1927-12-24 "This classic New Yorker holi...

Renata Tebaldi has died at age 82 following a long illness. Here are three good obituaries: From the Times (of London): Obituaries R...

There is a good essay on faith in the Boston Globe (reprinted in Common Dreams): God's Clock . In it, James Carroll, notices that we u...

There's a literary Christmas Quiz in the Guardian. Here's a link to it: God bless us, every one -- Literary Scrooge or a Tiny Tim?...

New Criterion has a nice review of Michael Dirda's collection of book reviews. Dirda occupies the last page of the Washington Post Book...