Wednesday, October 18, 2006
The Not-So-Beautiful Voice (03:34 PM) - The Anchoress writes:Someone who doesn’t much like Renee Fleming’s most recent work (whose name might be Legion) put together a kind of mean, but very funny lip-synch of la Diva and Baby June Hudson. Enjoy.Yes, enjoy the video. Oh, but…
Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson …Together at Last (09:39 AM) - They had to reanimate Robert Oppenheimer to figure out how to do it safely, but Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson will finally be appearing together in the same movie. Mille fois merci to Dan Collins, Protein Sage, for the note….
A Snapshot from Vienna (08:48 AM) - My friend Felicia, who is studying in Berlin and her surrounds this fair fall, sends along a few photos of the Vienna memorial to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the “miracle,” as his father wrote, “which God caused to be born in…
Peter Robinson in The Wall Street Journal (07:35 AM) - In the Journal this morning Dartmouth trustee and Hoover Institution fellow Peter Robinson discusses a sea shift in the higher education sector—that alumni, who have been stakeholders all along, are only now becoming informed stakeholders, and are turning their knowledge…
The Eighteenth of October (01:20 AM) - Twenty-one, today. Thanks, Mom and Dad!…
“Protect Biodiversity.” (01:04 AM) - In troubled times, the world’s tallest men in the highest halls turn their attention to the problem of fishing on the high seas. And evidently the UN is paying attention, too….
Lumping Israel With the Terrorists (12:27 AM) - David Kopel has a crucial report on the movement to ban small arms sales, which seems to be largely targeted at Israel. It is as if someone burst into Manhattan with a phalanx of megaphones and demanded that all drug…
Mexico To Challenge United States Sovereignty (12:03 AM) - The nation of Mexico, whose ineffective political leadership depends on mass emigration of its population in order to avoid ruin, has publicly stated that it intends to bring the prospect of a US-Mexico border fence to the United Nations. This…