Living in Paris these past 20 years has clearly made me out of touch, despite spending the past four months in Boston and thinking that I had become …
Read moreNow this is a fun story, isn't it? Ariana Huffington of the Huffington Post claims that at a dinner at Candice Bergen's house shortly after …
Read moreWhile we are on archaeology today: the Web site of the Catalhoyuk Research Project has a new multimedia feature devoted to the figurines discovered …
Read moreIn today's issue of Science , yours truly has a news article accompanying a new report about the archaeological site of Monte Verde in Chile, dat…
Read moreThere is a lot of buzz today about two related issues: Will Hillary stay in the race, and will she be offered the VP slot--thus creating the so-calle…
Read moreLike many of you, I stayed up way too late last night thinking that Obama might just take Indiana by a vote or two, and downed a few too many cognacs…
Read moreThe returns from Indiana are not fully in yet, but that race clearly will be very close--while Obama racks up a nice pile of new delegates from his c…
Read moreIn a column in today's New York Times entitled " Doing the Troops Wrong ," op-ed writer Bob Herbert discusses the "New G.I. Bill&…
Read moreI can't say it any better this morning than my blogger pal Marc Cooper did in his latest post, so I'm just going to reproduce his comments h…
Read moreI'm spending this rainy Sunday morning in Boston correcting my students' final papers, while listening to Ken Laster's fabulous weekly ja…
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