by Dawn Farmer Sliver of the Moon and Venus
Archive | January 29, 2009
Whom will President Obama appoint as ambassadors?
Much of President Barack Obama’s pre-election stump speeches focused on the perceived need to reinvigorate America’s moral leadership around the world. Indeed, rhetoric on the White House website says, “President Obama and Vice President Biden will renew America’s security and standing in the world through a new era of American leadership.” Critical first steps, many […]
Book about happy drugs will make readers happy—Review: Pharmakon by Dirk Wittenborn
Dirk Wittenborn’s exploration of the drug culture—not the flashy counter-culture of the 1960s but the mainstream medicate-every-problem culture that arose in the 1980s—is at once a biting indictment of social values and a touching portrait of an unfulfilled family. Wittenborn’s Pharmakon manages to do all this and more. The story begins at the crossroads where […]
S&R Honors
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Samuel Smith: No one hurt - that's the best news in all of this.…
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Bret Higgins: The last three Bridge issues, well, only three sin…
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