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David's Deliberations
David's Deliberations: Anniversary Books on Politics & Prose's 30th Anniversary
As a public interest advocate I always connect anniversaries to events and future actions. Memory, commemoration, reinforcement, next actions each brings us closer to the next objective in civil rights, safety net protection, peace and countless other efforts.
For us 2014 is a year of anniversaries: 40 years since the Nixon resignation, 50 years of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and One Person-One Vote and 60 years since Brown vs Board of Education. They have clear memories for me. I played an active role in achieving three of them.
We are also about to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the creation of Politics & Prose. I look forward to being present for the celebration and hope I'm there for the 40th. Politics & Prose thrives as a community bastion of civil discourse, a place that discusses ideas with joy and open minds, where friends meet and new friends are made and you can be serious about books and have fun. My continuing connection with Politics and Prose stands as a source of pride and pleasure under the leadership of Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine and the remarkable staff that is part of the Politics & Prose community.
Each of these anniversaries bring us a bevy of books by authors that have appeared at P&P, authors who provide historical perspective in the liveliest of ways. The books that I'm boosting taught me matters that I couldn't know when I was in the frontlines on civil rights, one person-one vote and Watergate.
Starting with the oldest anniversaries first, I want to recommend six excellent books that are a delight to read even if you lived through these times. You may want to share them with your children and grandchildren.
Brown v. Board of Education
Simple Justice (Vintage, $27.95) by Richard Kluger traces the battle of Brown v. Board of Education. The personalities are complex: the talented lawyers, reflecting the Talented Tenth that W.E.B. Du Bois instilled in African-American elites, the brave plaintiffs, parents and children, in the Deep South and Kansas. The story has complex cultural roots that are as at least as significant as its legal roots.
Simple Justice is the authoritative account of what led to the 1954 decision that held: "Separate education facilities are inherently unequal." Kluger writes gracefully and thereby makes history live.
Sixty years later Sheryl Cashin, a Georgetown Law Professor, who clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall, sets forth ways to address racial and social inequality in America. Place Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America (Beacon, $25.95) gets us past the categories associated with affirmative action to address those people who are disadvantaged by race and class. She has opened up a thought provoking discussion on how to create multi-racial opportunities that challenges the current thinking and helps us navigate a potentially volatile subject.
1964 Civil Rights Act
The 50th Anniversary of Civil Rights Act of 1964, landmark in every way, brings us two excellent books: Clay Risen's The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act (Bloomsbury, $28) and Todd Purdum's An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, And The Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Henry Holt and Co., $30).
Each book recognizes the major work of William McCulloch, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, who is one of the heroes, largely unsung, in the bill becoming a law. I believe that. One evening at a P&P event I had a chance to praise McCullloch from the floor. Later that evening a woman came up to me with tears in her eyes to tell me she was Congressman McCulloch's daughter.
Risen's is a textured history that takes us through the Kennedy Administration's initial ambivalence, its impatience with the civil rights advocates and the President at last recognizing that civil rights is a moral issue. Risen takes us through the Birmingham strategies and tragedies and has us in Mississippi when Medgar Evers is assassinated.
Risen richly recognizes the different roles of Senators Humphrey and Mansfield and each necessary to have Senator Dirksen overcome his initial doubts about certain titles and in time persuade many conservatives to support the legislation.
None of this happened in a vacuum. Certainly the religious community—particularly the middle-west Protestant and Catholic communities—made a clear difference in achieving that far reaching goal.
Purdum surrounds his book with a century's unfinished business of racial equality and ends with an epilogue of some of the personal stories, not all happy, with the players as life cycle and organizational events interfere with their late in life endings.
Purdum's book has three parts: The Administration, the House and the Senate. The story is told by a skilled journalist with a historic sensibility. The interplay of Humphrey and his wooing of Dirksen, Mansfield's role, the determination to not yield the floor to the filibusterers, the bi-partisanship which was constant that improved the result, and more importantly led to its acceptance, attested to by Senator Russell leader of the Southern bloc.
President Johnson's contribution was not one of persuading legislators. The evidence suggests he persuaded only one. However, his determination to get a strong bill, reinforced by McCulloch, gave Humphrey the room to negotiate with Dirksen so Dirksen legitimately shared in the credit. The negotiations were accomplished without materially weakening the legislation. In every way LBJ was important, picking up on Martin Luther King's peroration at the March on Washington, Free at Last! Free at Last! Free at Last!
One Person-One Vote
Chief Justice Warren thought that his greatest contribution was the one person-one vote decisions affecting Congress and state legislatures. J. Douglas Smith's On Democracy's Doorstep: The Inside Story of How the Supreme Court Brought One Person, One Vote to the United States (Hill and Wang, $35) takes us behind the scenes in the Executive Branch, gives us an idea of the issues before the Court which and dramatically tells the efforts to undo the decision in the Congress led by our civil rights hero Dirksen with the complicity of the Johnson Justice Department. That effort was derailed by Senators Douglas, Proxmire, Clark and Hart and the decision was preserved. The battle was fought again in 1965 and the same Senators plus the newly elected Joe Tydings warded off the wreckers.
John Gardner, a mentor of mine, said of Elizabeth Drew's Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Nixon's Downfall (Overlook, $29.95) that 40 years after publication it will be the book that lasts.
Drew's work gives the reader a complex and an understandable picture of the passage ways and layers that we have to navigate. Watergate is much more than what did President Nixon know and when did he know it. We are constantly challenged as a people to overcome our penchant for historic amnesia. It is not about the memory of grievance or bitterness but how do we use memory to help us face our current problems and not deny their existence.
Drew's work gives the reader a complex and an understandable picture of the passage ways and layers that we have to navigate to understand the Watergate days. Re-reading it I found myself reading intensively the firing of Archibald Cox and the principled stands of Elliot Richardson and William Ruckleshaus. I stayed riveted on the days of the House Judiciary Committee's working through the Articles of Impeachment and the care with which Members—Republican and Democratic—met their responsibility.
In Washington Journal Drew provides us with original reporting in her Afterword. She gives us new and astonishing material on that part of Richard Nixon's life that has not been examined, his post-Presidency.
Read again Washington Journal stays fresh, written in a time of no 24/7 news cycle, no twitter feeds, no blogs, not even CNN. Her reporting probes and explains, thereby connecting the free floating dots. Its republication, and the Afterword, will keep Washington Journal alive for a new generation and allow the older generation to be reminded of what we must not forget.
These books have a commonality about our past political culture that the current one lacks: a willingness to tackle tough problems, to recognize the country and its democratic systems and processes matter. In Watergate the Judiciary Committee dug in, worked in a non-partisan way to create an agreement based on evidence. In civil rights the branches of government worked in a way that created substantial acceptance after the Supreme Court said segregation was neither constitutional nor acceptable. The race to undo one person, one vote was stopped.
The lesson also shows that problems do not go away. New ones emerge. That's why we work to find ways to address inequality of voting and opportunity. That is our public work that has to continue.
--David Cohen
David's Deliberations 11/01/12
Though Hurricane Sandy hangs over us with power outages and flooding, we can't forget we are in the final stages of a Presidential election, though we won't know what variables played a role in the election until it is over. Meanwhile we, especially people in Ohio and other battleground states, are saturated with ads. We can retain our passion for public service and leadership if we look to history, where nothing is airbrushed. The richness of American history is captured in three recent books: two books on President Lincoln's leadership and a biography of Lincoln's Secretary of State William Seward help me savor and appreciate the challenges of leadership and public service. These books grip the reader from beginning to end as they fully explore new about the Lincoln Presidency—why it inspires, what challenges it faced, the obstacles Lincoln overcame, and what ones he didn't.
Lincoln's Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union - Louis P. Masur (Harvard Univ., $29.95)
Louis P. Masur's Lincoln's Hundred Days presents a gripping story of the hundred-day gap between when the decision was made to issue the Emancipation Proclamation and its effective date on January 1, 1863. Lincoln educated his cabinet about emancipation through story and parable. "Stand patters," mostly Democrats, pulverized Lincoln's decision. "Maximalists," who were also Abolitionists, thought Lincoln was a hesitant and compromised leader. The African American leader Frederick Douglass understood the Proclamation's import even if it did not free slaves in the states that hadn't seceded, the reason—according to Masur—that Lincoln strongly supported a constitutional amendment banning slavery. Douglass, sagacious advocate that he was, began publicly addressing the question of what would happen to the slaves after freedom, even before the Proclamation took full effect.
Masur's book also covers the period before the end of the Civil War when Lincoln visited wounded troops. (Remember the troops were an important part of Lincoln's electoral margin over the fired General McClellan.) Lincoln felt the power of the Emancipation Proclamation decision even as he walked silently in Richmond during the war. One woman proclaimed, "I know I am free for I have seen Father Abraham and felt him."
Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year - David Von Drehle (Holt, $30)
David Von Drehle's Rise to Greatness opens on New Year's Day 1862 with Lincoln greeting hordes of citizens, and takes us through the whole year. Each chapter follows one month, and discusses the complexities of saving the Union from McClellan's imperious caution and disloyalty to his commander-in-chief; the challenge from the British as Charles Francis Adams, our Ambassador to Great Britain, pushes for emancipation; and the official declaration of the emancipation policy. Von Drehle closes the book with the birth of freedom.
What Von Drehle does so brilliantly is capture Lincoln's sense of history and how change is created and sustained. Of Lincoln, Von Drehle writes, "to him, human history was an inexorable current that sometimes meandered, sometimes raged, but ultimately found its own course." In Lincoln's view, change required working through "his options with the most cautious initiatives" because as volatile issues were taken on—especially slavery—there was no going back.
Von Drehle shows us that at the start of 1862 the nation looked backward, not certain that the Union could be preserved, but as 1863 began with the Emancipation Proclamation in place, the nation could look forward.
Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man – Walter Stahr (Simon & Schuster, $32.50)
Carla and I once had the good fortune to visit the Seward home in Auburn, NY. Our interest was triggered by Gore Vidal's novel Lincoln (arguably his best work) and reinforced by Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals. In Seward, Walter Stahr takes William Henry Seward to a deeper level with the story of a creative and forward looking political leader.
Few politicians are themselves after a defeat yet Seward, in his mind assured the Republican Presidential nomination in 1860, loyally served Lincoln as Secretary of State. (Yes, Obama and Clinton appear to be a Lincoln and Seward parallel.) In this role, Seward had the courage to challenge the compromise Clay, Webster and Calhoun suggested of turning over fugitive slaves.
When Seward is injured shortly before the war's end by a runaway horse and coach, he is visited by Lincoln. I wish the conversation had been recorded: Lincoln returning from a Richmond hospital after shaking hundreds of wounded soldiers' hands and an ill Seward.
Seward did not have the strength to speak at length but with the war at a near end you can imagine the discussion of the plans for the future—two politicians, two leaders, two patriots, looking ahead.
- David Cohen
David's Deliberations 10/04/12
This past weekend the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) held its annual conference in Washington. NAIBA gathers booksellers living on the east coast from as far away as Buffalo and from large and small cities in the region. Much of this year's conference was about why words and books matter. Independent bookstores are the life blood for keeping words paramount.
Carla did lots to build NAIBA and, in its early days, served as chairperson of the group. NAIBA is a mature and lively institution most recently, and strongly, led by Lucy Kogler, owner of Talking Leaves in Buffalo, New York. Margot Sage-El of Watchung Booksellers in Montclair, New Jersey will succeed Lucy as NAIBA president and our own Mark Laframboise, who has served on the Board of Directors for five years, is now Vice President of NAIBA, an indicator among independents of the respect Mark holds in the independent bookstore community.
I arrived early to observe and talk to the meeting participants, a decision that filled the evening with joy and hope. Politics & Prose staff was everywhere talking with booksellers, editors and publishers. I met old friends from other independent bookstores as well as the editing and publishing communities.
My curiosity caused me to be a reporter. Why was everyone so upbeat? It came down to three core reasons:
1. People like coming to Washington because Washington is central to books. People felt they were somewhere that connected to their mission as booksellers, editors, and publishers.
2. Politics & Prose, under Brad and Lissa's leadership, provided a "behind the scenes" tour of the store. Visiting booksellers were broken down into small groups led by different staff members, so guests glimpsed the full range of what Politics & Prose does: the book floor, to be sure, but also the importance of receiving, the events and education programs, and children's books, among others. People I met spoke about the tour enthusiastically. It was a clear highlight of the weekend.
3. There was energy about the importance of books, their sustainability, and the ability of independents to adapt to a rapidly changing environment. No sky is falling here in Washington or, as I like to say, "No cosmic oy vey." What Lucy Kogler, outgoing NAIBA president, wrote about the Department of Justice's lawsuit against publishers is an understatement: Independents, she said, "chase the future, the local and independent are wildly present and healthy... [and] have the courage to recognize their power to change the course of the industry by choosing independence."
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The NAIBA conference also presents the Carla Cohen Award, which goes to the author of a children's book that educates children about their rights by ensuring they will read books "that will allow them to question, imagine and dream" and thereby become actors in the essential ingredients of freedom. This year's winner of the Carla Cohen Award is MK Reed, author of Americus, a graphic novel about book-banning in a small Oklahoma town and the effort to overcome the ban. Jonathan DavidHill is the illustrator. The publisher, Roaring Brook, graciously invited me to attend the ceremony. I was impressed with how MK Hill captured Carla's spirit. She spoke movingly and passionately about the First Amendment and the importance of encouraging a flow of ideas.
The obituary for former New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger made the trenchant point that for the Times to meet its journalistic responsibilities it has to be profitable but also to spend time digging for news that's fit to print so that important stories don't get buried. Similarly, independents have to be profitable so that they can educate others and make the free flow of ideas visible and audible. At NAIBA, I found a deep commitment to that goal. Independent bookstores are part of a community that includes book people, authors, readers, editors and publishers, all of whom are focusing on the present and the future.
- David Cohen
Getting Our Public Work Done: Governing Ourselves
These closing weeks of summer has us absorbed with political conventions, rhetorical excesses and looking for that extra effort in behalf of our favorite candidates. Many of us will choose to register and canvass voters, and help overcome the obstacles placed in front of voters participating in this election. We want a genuine democratic election and have to worry that the self-styled voter fraud laws put a democratic election at a real risk.
Once the election is over, hopefully fairly and cleanly resolved, we have to make decisions, deal with urgent public problems and reach majority decisions in our legislative bodies, especially within the U.S. Congress.
During this this politically active period, three books help put us on the road to get things done with accountability. These books have energized me for future efforts to do our public work by being engaged citizens. So I suggest you read It's Even Worse Than It Looks, by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein (Basic Books, $24.99); The Party Is Over, by Mike Lofgren (Viking, $25.95); and The Politics of Voter Suppression, by Tova Andrea Wang (Cornell Univ., $24.99).
Each of these books is accessible, crisply written and filled with practical steps to change our political and policy systems so that those systems are not captured by political extremism. Mann and Ornstein (Brookings and AEI) show us the way to restore majority
rule in the Senate and no longer have serious issues buried under the table by the harmful filibuster. They suggest ways of changing our political culture by attacking distortions, tribalism and fostering the give and take of public discussion.
Mike Lofgren, a Republican senior analyst for the House and Senate Budget Committees, knows the system from the inside. Lofgren's strength is that he has not been captured by the culture that allows extremism and mindlessness to dominate. Good examples for Republican Lofgren are the GOP presidential candidates' budget plans that are "math-challenged." Lofgren then shows how a majority the members of the House and Senate defense committees have been captured by the special interests.
Tova Andrea Wang shows why voter suppression, rooted in our history, is illegitimate. Yet we have a countering tradition that increases participation. Wang weaves the historic with the contemporary, the harmful and the positive. What I love about Wang's contribution is that she recognizes the value of citizens organizing to help people get registered and participate. Through organizing, and helping others, we navigate and overcome the barriers.
- David Cohen
The Role and History of the Supreme Court
June always brings an active month of legal decisions, and often these decisions are made by a sharply divided Supreme Court. I want to demystify the judicial branch to help citizens be more informed about the decision-making process. The Supreme Court is too important an element of our system of democracy for Presidents, Senators and lawyers to be the only ones discussing and debating these cases.
This year I have read three excellent books on the U.S. Judiciary. Each one would make an outstanding Father's Day or graduation gift.
Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780316199797Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Back Bay Books, 10/2012
Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir (Back Bay, $15.99) by Justice John Paul Stevens is a gentle memoir by a respected public servant of Chief Justices Vinson, Warren, Burger, Rehnquist and Roberts. His insights deserve attention because, at its core, the institution has a legacy to protect. Will it? That's part of a citizen's responsibility. - David Cohen
ISBN-13: 9780199754540Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Oxford University Press, USA, 3/2012
Linda Greenhouse, in her The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford Univ., $11.95), lucidly informs us about the role, importance, and functioning of the Judiciary and her reasons why we should be informe. - David Cohen
Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge of His Era (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780674064393Availability: Not currently shipping from publisher – Subject to future availability
Published: Belknap Press, 3/2012
David Dorsen's Henry Friendly: Greatest Judge of His Era (Belknap, $35) recognizes the contributions of a thoughtful appellate judge and his influence on others including Supreme Court justices. As any good biography does Dorsen captures a complex personality. - David Cohen
John Marshall: Definer of a Nation (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780805055108Availability: Not currently in the store – Usually ships in 1-5 days
Published: Holt Paperbacks, 3/1998
Currently we await decisions on the Affordable Health Care Act and the Arizona immigration cases. The rich biographic literature on the Supreme Court provides history and commentary about the court's place in our democracy. Its importance today cannot be separated from the demanding issues dealt with in our past.
Here are my favorite biographies and commentaries which place the courts in context. Each would make a superb Father's Day or graduation gift.
<h2>I. Biography</h2>
Currently we await decisions on the Affordable Health Care Act and the Arizona immigration cases. The rich biographic literature on the Supreme Court provides history and commentary about the court's place in our democracy. Its importance today cannot be separated from the demanding issues dealt with in our past.
Here are my favorite biographies and commentaries which place the courts in context. Each would make a superb Father's Day or graduation gift.
<h2>I. Biography</h2>
Louis D. Brandeis: A Life (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780375423666Availability: Not currently shipping from publisher – Subject to future availability
Published: Pantheon, 9/2009
Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780547149257Availability: Not currently shipping from publisher – Subject to future availability
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/2010
ISBN-13: 9780805080575Availability: Not currently in the store – Usually ships in 1-5 days
Published: Times Books, 4/2006
ISBN-13: 9780374532444Availability: Not currently in the store – Usually ships in 1-5 days
Published: Sarah Crichton Books, 8/2010
Archibald Cox: Conscience Of A Nation (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780738201474Availability: Not currently in the store – Usually ships in 1-5 days
Published: Da Capo Press, 3/1999
Archibald Cox: Conscience Of A Nation is available to be printed on request through our Print on Demand machine.
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780812932997Availability: Not currently in the store – Usually ships in 1-5 days
Published: Broadway Books, 2/2000
Availability: Out of Print
Published: University of North Carolina Press, 9/2004
Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780195377774Availability: Not currently shipping from publisher – Subject to future availability
Published: Oxford University Press, USA, 11/2010
II. The Supreme Court in Our Democracy
ISBN-13: 9780307274946Availability: Not currently in the store – Usually ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 10/2006
Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780307390837Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage, 9/2011
ISBN-13: 9780446699280Availability: Not currently in the store – Usually ships in 1-5 days
Published: Twelve, 10/2011
ISBN-13: 9780195177572Availability: Not currently in the store – Usually ships in 1-5 days
Published: Oxford University Press, USA, 12/2004
That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt is available to be printed on request through our Print on Demand machine.
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781400030613Availability: Not currently in the store – Usually ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 4/2004
Gideon's Trumpet (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780679723127Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage, 4/1989
ISBN-13: 9780393338812Availability: Not currently in the store – Usually ships in 1-5 days
Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 3/2011
ISBN-13: 9780743250337Availability: Not currently in the store – Usually ships in 1-5 days
Published: Simon & Schuster, 11/2007
FDR and Chief Justice Hughes: The President, the Supreme Court, and the Epic Battle Over the New Deal (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781416573289Availability: Not currently in the store – Usually ships in 1-5 days
Published: Simon & Schuster, 2/2012
ISBN-13: 9781586488055Availability: Not currently shipping from publisher – Subject to future availability
Published: PublicAffairs, 3/2010
ISBN-13: 9780802710314Availability: Not currently shipping from publisher – Subject to future availability
Published: Walker & Company, 4/2010
David's Deliberation 05/17/12
On May 3, Politics & Prose hosted Andrew Delbanco for a talk about his insightful and stimulating book: College, What It Was, Is and Should Be (Princeton Univ., $24.95). Delbanco's scholarship is steeped in American culture and history - especially when it comes to the literary narrative. Lincoln, Melville and the legacy of the Puritans loom large in Delbanco's lifelong work, which has been animated by the ideals of equality, merit, opportunity, and hope.
Delbanco's lively and thoughtful presentation led to what amounted to a town meeting on the nature of college education, as participants raised their concerns about the astronomical costs of higher education, about the difficulties of preparing children for college, and about the infrequency of teaching that leads to critical thought and a passion to continue learning.
In the course of the discussion, several topics emerged: inter-generational educational opportunities, healthier older generations who are living longer and want to keep their minds stimulated and engaged, and citizens without formal higher education who read and discuss ideas and public matters as part of civic engagement. Our events staff recorded the discussion and you can download the mp3 by clicking here.
Recently, I participated in discussions at NYU on the nature of education; the principal speaker thought that on-line distance learning represents the future. While embracing it, he worried that imagination may be neglected, and while Delbanco's approach has a different emphasis, he also believes foremost in expanding a student's imagination.
In his The Real American Dream, Delbanco put the matter clearly.
As a teacher of the humanities, you do everything you can to help students expand their imagination, by which I mean to look outward, to see something beyond the consumer pleasures with which they are bombarded, to develop some sense of the complexity of the past and the diversity of the present -- that is the variety of ways in which human beings have tried to make sense of the world. Only then is it possible to develop some sense of alternative futures.
This theme resonates throughout College, What It Was, Is and Should Be. Steeped in a firm understanding of higher education's rich history, College is a call to action for more than a few to use their imagination to the fullest. Delbanco referenced a memorable quote by Judith Shapiro when she was President of Barnard - "You want the inside of your head to be an interesting place to spend the rest of your life." That's our challenge at all ages.
- David Cohen
College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be (Hardcover)
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Princeton University Press, 3/2012
Passover Haggadahs
Passover brings to Politics and Prose a rich set of Haggadahs (Haggadot in Hebrew) on display in the front of the store. I am so pleased that Carla Cohen's bibliography, began many years ago, continues to be used and appropriately revised. Carla started the bibliography to assist families in choosing a Haggadah that would fit their Seder needs for family and friends.
In response to a New York Times article on new Haggadahs, a few days ago, a friend asked, "What's wrong with the traditional ones?" Haggadah means narrative or telling. Narratives change. As the essentials of the Exodus story are retold, different emphases are placed on the story.
The newer haggadahs certainly make use of tradition, but they adapt it to contemporary situations so that we increase our ability to experience the Exodus ourselves. And we do this by asking ourselves questions: What are we enslaved to? What forms of slavery continue to exist in our country? In other countries? What can we do about it? What plagues afflict us now? What can we learn from those who fought for freedom and resisted slavery. In our own Seder, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Martin Luther King, Hannah Senesh, Frederic Douglass, Chaika Grossman, and countless others have had active parts.
New American Haggadah (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780316069861Availability: Not currently in the store – Usually ships in 1-5 days
Published: Little, Brown and Company, 2/2012
Many years there are new Haggadahs. This year New American Haggadah (Little, Brown, $29.99) is a star. In addition to its beautiful illustrations, it contains rich commentary and wonderful collection of songs. This Haggadah will stimulate ongoing discussions and lift people spirits with its music. Carla would have loved it, and she also would have appreciated the personal connections with the contributors. Jonathan Safran Foer, grew up buying and browsing books at P&P (as did his author brothers Franklin and Joshua), Jeffrey Goldberg who wrote the Haggadah's Nation commentaries has visited P&P for his books and to help welcome other authors. Translator Nathan Englander and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein have each presented at P&P.
A few older books are my favorites. They add to the quality of discussion. They are not the only good books, but I have turned to them frequently.
ISBN-13: 9780805242423Availability: Not currently shipping from publisher – Subject to future availability
Published: Schocken, 2/2007
Marge Piercy's Pesach for the Rest of Us (Schocken, $22.95) puts matters into historical perspective so that the Seder speaks powerfully to your own circle, particularly to that of secular and non-fundamentalist, religious Jews.
ISBN-13: 9781580231848Availability: Not currently in the store – Usually ships in 1-5 days
Published: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2/2004
David Arnow's Creating Lively Passover Seders (Jewish Lights, $24.99) takes us past dry ritual and order. Lively
discussions make a Seder memorable. Arnow has suggestions to stimulate such
ISBN-13: 9780062018106Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper, 3/2011
Cokie and Steve Roberts' Our Haggadah: Uniting Traditions for Interfaith Families (HarperCollins, $19.99) fits for the increasing number of interfaith families who celebrate Passover. Even culturally Jewish families often have not had the education or experience to feel knowledgeable about conducting a Seder, and this book provides an informed and comfortable start. Our Haggadah has added value for non-Jewish participants who wish to engage in the Seder.
Keeping Passover: Everything You Need to Know to Bring the Ancient Tradition to Life and Create Yo (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780060675530Availability: Not currently in the store – Usually ships in 1-5 days
Published: HarperOne, 2/1995
Irwin Steingroot's Keeping Passover (HarperOne, $16) is a marvelous guide to the Seder's rituals and meanings behind each step. It's superb both for Seder preparation and for a participant to weave in a few points of learning during the Seder.
love to recommend the following two Haggadahs,
but they are out-of-print or unavailable at this time. Perhaps you can
borrow one from a friend or find them through a used book dealer.
Rabbi Richard Levy's On Wings of Freedom was a breakthrough Haggadah when it appeared in 1989. Its translations reflect an egalitarian and non-sexist mindset, filled with ancient and modern readings including lots from the Song of Songs. It connects contemporary events with personal spiritual concerns.
Jonathan Sachs' The Chief Rabbi's Haggadah has elegant essays to accompany a traditional Haggadah. Rabbi Sachs, an Orthodox Jew, provides a learned and humane approach to the Passover story. He is the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and has stood down intolerance within the British Jewish community. His midrash (interpretation) of how Moses was conceived is alone worth reading the book. That is but a foretaste of matters to be read in Sachs' writing.
Click here for more of our suggested Haggadahs.
We interpret Next Year in Jerusalem (the traditional Seder closing before the songs) to mean Next Year in a City of Peace. May All Humanity Be Redeemed.
- David Cohen
Ira Shapiro's recollection of The Last Great Senate
On February 26, Ira Shapiro celebrated his publication of The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis (PublicAffairs, $34.99). A standing room audience – which included former Senate staff members who helped produce important policy in the 1960s and 1970s, leading journalists, and people who care about the state of our governing institutions - participated in a lively discussion.
While I participated in many of the issues about which Ira Shapiro wrote - Senate ethics rules, the Ethics in Government Act, SALT II, the dismissal of Bert Lance as President Carter's Budget Director, approval of the Panama Canal Treaty, filibuster reform, and energy legislation - this informative book, filled with memorable stories, taught me how much I did not know. Details matter, and they are an essential part of Shapiro's graceful and clear writing that captures emotion in his discussions of individual senators.
ISBN-13: 9781586489366Availability: Not currently shipping from publisher – Subject to future availability
Published: PublicAffairs, 2/2012
Shapiro wisely tells us that "The Last Great Senate" does not have to mean final. If it is final, it saps our hope for improvement. He advises that we make "last" mean "most recent" great Senate. This made sense to me, as I aspire to be a person who works to stir and shake things up. We have work to do to achieve greatness again.
That period had many lessons to teach. It modeled leadership that put the national interest before partisan politics, in which the senators that cared about the Senate as an institution. They knew how to create acceptable compromise, and they represented a Senate that reached decisions.
The senators that stood out for me were the majority and minority leaders, Robert Byrd (D-WV) and Howard Baker (R–TN), who consistently rose past narrow partisanship. Republicans included Javits, Lugar, Pearson, Percy. Democrats included: Church, Eagleton, Jackson, Kennedy, Magnuson, Mondale, Muskie, Nelson, Ribicoff. These Senators built on the earlier work of Mansfield, Dirksen, and Humphrey .
I am proud that Politics & Prose, under Brad Graham's and Lissa Muscatine's leadership, continues to provide P&P readers with a rich array of books that help us do the necessary public work of engaged citizens. As I am most familiar with the rich literature on Congress written by many who have served as legislators, staff members, and journalists, here are some of my favorites, including a few referenced by Ira Shapiro. These authors all presented their books at P&P.
Lots to do; never enough time to read. But The Last Great Senate and these other books give us a way to start.
- David Cohen
ISBN-13: 9780394720951Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage, 4/2003
Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography (Paperback)
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Published: Harper Perennial, 7/2009
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA, 8/2008
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Published: Smithsonian Books, 10/2003
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA, 3/2005
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Published: Yale University Press, 9/1985
The Literature of Immigration
The well-received publication of Ayad Akhtar's debut novel American Dervish (Little, Brown, $24.99), caused me to think about the ongoing popularity of immigrant novels in America. Akhtar deals with the tensions between secular lifestyles and religious beliefs among immigrant Muslims (in this case -- from Pakistan). In his book, men who are religiously dominant experience tensions with a younger generation wishing to adapt to American culture, especially with women who resist male control.
Historically, each wave of immigration has produced outstanding literature that has examined its own generational conflict, retained and celebrated cultural identity, and embraced adaptation through its unique version of the American "melting pot." Literature describing the immigrant experience has included both women and men who have spoken for their compatriots' perspectives and have helped outsiders understand. And whatever the characters' difficulties, they demonstrate immigration as providing an advantage.
American Dervish (Paperback)
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Published: Back Bay Books, 9/2012
South Asian writers from the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain are some of my favorites.
- I love Jhumpa Lahiri's many beautiful composed and emotive contributions: both her novel - The Namesake - and short stories - The Interpreter of Maladies, a more youthfully spirited collection, and Unaccustomed Earth, in which she witnesses to the challenges and pains of maturity.
Interpreter of Maladies (Paperback)
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Published: Mariner Books, 6/1999
- Bharati Mukherjee in Jasmine, Desirable Daughters, and The Tree Bride tells epic stories of journeys and movement that unfolds as we read.
Desirable Daughters (Paperback)
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Published: Hachette Books, 3/2003
- Brick Lane, by Monica Ali, describes a Bangladeshi community in London, and provoked a harsh communal reaction similar to the response with which parts of the American and Canadian Jewish communities in the late 1950s met Philip Roth's Goodbye Columbus and Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.
Brick Lane (Paperback)
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Published: Scribner, 6/2004
Goodbye, Columbus: and Five Short Stories (Paperback)
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Published: Vintage, 1/1994
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Mass Market Paperback)
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Published: New Canadian Library, 11/1989
More of my favorites are:
- James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan stands out as an early classic on Irish Americans.
Studs Lonigan (Paperback)
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Published: Penguin Classics, 11/2001
Christ in Concrete (Paperback)
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Published: NAL Trade, 9/2004
Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Paperback)
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 8/1999
The Rise of David Levinsky (Paperback)
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Published: Penguin Classics, 3/1993
Bread Givers (Paperback)
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Published: Persea Books, 8/2003
Middlesex (Paperback)
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Published: Picador, 6/2007
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
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Published: Vintage, 1/1984
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Paperback)
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Published: Riverhead Trade, 9/2008
Mona in the Promised Land (Paperback)
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Published: Vintage, 4/1997
A Free Life (Paperback)
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Published: Vintage, 1/2009
Nativism all too often surfaces in American society and anti-immigrant hostility periodically dominates the political culture. These authors - and many others - stand out as voices to counter this mindless intolerance.
- David Cohen
Robust and Civil Conversation on Emotional Matters
Politics & Prose continues to create a public space where emotional topics can be discussed in a robust and civil way. On February 12, we hosted Rabbi Fred Reiner's Standing at Sinai (Authorhouse, $18), a collection of his sermons and scholarly writings. These are extraordinarily provocative essays dealing with hard issues, such as intermarriage, homosexuality, immigration, and Israel. Audience members raised thoughtful and emotional questions. Rabbi Reiner answered them forthrightly. The audience listened attentively. Both the questioners and Rabbi Reiner modeled the serious and respectful manner in which these matters should be addressed.
As one who strongly believes in Israel as a Jewish homeland and as a democratically religious and secular pluralist state, which includes Israel's Arabs as equal citizens, I have been disturbed by ongoing efforts by some in America who wish to shut down debate in my religious community. Among many other reasons, Politics & Prose made Carla and me proud that it was a safe harbor for robust and civil discussion. That continues under the leadership of Brad Graham and Lissa Muscatine.
In recent months Politics & Prose has hosted Gershom Gorenberg's The Unmaking of Israel (Harper, $25.99). Gorenberg is a practicing Israeli orthodox Jew and an outstanding journalist. Gorenberg refutes the shrill defense of "Israel - right or wrong" and the equally strident attacks on the legitimacy of Israel. Israel is an imperfect democracy (as are all democracies.) Its imperfections do not make it undemocratic when vigorous voices challenge those imperfections within Israel.
P&P also hosted Jeremy Ben Ami's A New Voice for Israel (Palgrave Macmillan, $26). Ben Ami comes from a family of early Zionists and is the founder and president of J St. He dismantles the notion that Jews are single issue voters on Israel and that only hard line policies can win their support.
In the fall, P&P hosted Gilad Sharon's loving book about his father, the incapacitated former Israel Prime Minister and military leader Ariel Sharon. Gilad Sharon celebrated the publication of his Sharon: The Life of a Leader (Harper, $29.99) to a full P&P audience.
Last year we also hosted at 6th and I the courageous Palestinian whose children were killed by an Israeli attack in Gaza. Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish presented I Shall Not Hate (Walker & Company, $15) with strength and courage to a packed and diverse audience.
Carla and Barbara were always proud of the Israel novelists who visited P&P. They represent a moral voice, who like the prophets of old, knew how to be loving critics of Israel. In the fall P&P hosted Amos Oz when he read from Scenes from Village Life (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $22). Lissa recalled his searching autobiography A Tale of Love and Darkness (Mariner, $16) and his novel Fima (Mariner, $18.95), both of which he presented at P&P.
I also remember David Grossman's visits for his profound novels: To the End of the Land and The Book of Intimate Grammar. Meir Shalev came for his memoir My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner and his earlier novel A Pigeon and a Boy. Who can forget the earlier visits of A.B. Yehoshua for his novels: Mr. Mani and Friendly Fire. I will always remember the late Batya Gur presiding over her mysteries: A Saturday Morning Murder and Murder in the Kibbutz. Each of these novelists gave us rich portraits of Israeli society. They model what a loving critic should be.
That quality of discussion will continue at Politics and Prose.
- David Cohen
Standing at Sinai: Sermons and Writings (Paperback)
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Published: Authorhouse, 6/2011
The Unmaking of Israel (Hardcover)
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The Iberian Peninsula
Music from the three great Spanish Cancioneros:
Palacio, Medinaceli & Uppsala plus more!
Main topics:
Ornamentation and improvisation after Ortiz
The Villancico, song in everyday life
Text placement, phrasing and the Lerma Codex
This Fall's sackbut workshop, running concurrently with the early double reed workshop, will focus on music of the Iberian Peninsula from the 15th and 16th centuries. The main body of repertoire that we will be working with comes directly from three "song books" referred to as the Uppsala, Palacio and Medinaceli cancioneros. These anthologies are comprised of villancicos or, roughly, "peasant songs" which developed into art songs in the late middle ages and early Renaissance from their origins as folk songs. We will discuss their form, function, characteristics and history, hopefully getting a better glimpse into daily life at this time through these secular songs.
Performance techniques will be split into two main ideas. The first will be that of ornamentation and improvisation based on the examples put forth in Diego Ortiz's Trattado de Glosas. We will look at his suggestions and work through a number of them, with the goal of applying them and those we create on our own to ensemble pieces. His Recercatas that are found in the second book of the Trattado will form our solo repertoire. The second performance idea is drawn from Gaspar Stoquerus' treatise on text placement, the most comprehensive treatise known to exist on this topic. We will use his rules not only to help us develop a clearer sense of phrasing in works where text is present, but also to take works where the text has not been included and work out a musical phrasing with text in mind nonetheless. To do so, we shall refer to the Lerma codex, a collection of un-texted pieces from the ducal chapel of Lerma reserved for the minstrels.
The day will be divided into sessions of topic discussions, sackbut ensemble (including warm-ups and techniques), solo performance opportunities, and mixed playing groups with the double reeds.


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AP photo Patriots strong safety Steve Gregory, right, celebrates with teammate Devin McCourty after an interception during Thursday night's game in East Rutherford, N.J.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England's offense has long been hailed as one of the most explosive in the league.Lately, though, the other two phases of the Patriots (8-3) have been delivering in impressive fashion, too.What was expected to be a grind-it-out game quickly turned into a laugher Thursday night as the Patriots posted 35 points in the second quarter alone, including offensive, defensive and special teams touchdowns in a 52-second span, on their way to a 49-19 thrashing of the struggling New York Jets."We all saw how quickly that a very competitive game last night, that was a scoreless tie, a battle back and forth, then all the sudden it's 35 points up there. But that's what happens," said New England coach Bill Belichick, who became the eighth coach in NFL history with at least 200 career wins. "A big play, a turnover, score, another turnover, another big play and when you get all those yards in one play, whether it's on a big play or a turnover, then that's what defines explosive plays. It certainly changes the whole dynamic of the game."One of the worst pass defenses in the league over the past year-and-a-half has swiftly shifted into one of the most feared, more closely resembling the units that keyed New England's three Super Bowl victories than the one that allowed the second-most yards passing in the league last season and ranks similarly this year.Just five days before the Patriots feasted on five Jets turnovers Thanksgiving night, they capitalized on a handful of Colts miscues as well, returning two interceptions for touchdowns and a punt return for a score in a 59-24 win over Indianapolis on Sunday. "I think last night is the `Exhibit A' on how quickly the game can change," Belichick said. "Turnovers are a huge part of the game and other than points, they're probably statistically the highest correlation to winning."We had a lot of turnovers earlier in the year and we didn't get enough point production out of those turnovers. A lot of times, we'd turn the ball over and end up leaving with not many points," he added. "So even though we had a turnover differential advantage, that didn't really translate into a big point advantage with those turnovers. The past few weeks, that number has changed more in our favor where the turnovers have been converted into points and in a lot of cases, touchdowns."As usual, the Patriots' potent offense had little trouble shredding the opposing defense.Quarterback Tom Brady accounted for four touchdowns, including one rushing, and finished 18 of 28 for 323 yards, becoming just one of six players to reach 3,000 yards passing for the 10th time.Brady, who has thrown 14 touchdowns against no interceptions during New England's current winning streak, also passed Dan Fouts for 10th place on the career passing list.Running back Stevan Ridley chipped in with 97 yards and a touchdown.But it was the defense that started the scoring spree this time.The points parade began when safety Steve Gregory intercepted quarterback Mark Sanchez and Brady led the offense on a 15-play, 84-yard drive, capped by Wes Welker's 3-yard catch on the first play of the second quarter.That was the beginning of the end for New York.One play after Gregory recovered a fumble by Jets running back Shonn Greene on fourth-and-inches from the Patriots 31, Brady threw a swing pass to Shane Vereen. He darted untouched up the left sideline for an 83-yard touchdown that made it 14-0. The scoring surge continued moments later when Sanchez fumbled after slamming into right guard Brandon Moore's backside. Gregory picked up the ball and ran it 32 yards for a touchdown to extend the lead.New England was far from finished.Joe McKnight fumbled the ensuing kickoff on a hit by Devin McCourty and Julian Edelman scooped up the loose ball and bolted 22 yards for another score, finishing off the 21-point blitz in less than a minute. Brady and Edelman later connected on 56-yard touchdown to stretch the lead to 35-0 late in the second period."I thought that really set the momentum for the game," Gregory said. "It really turned things into a lopsided feel there."They're a good football team, but I think we're a little better this year."The numbers certainly support that.Boasting the most prolific offense in the NFL with 37 points and 435.8 yards per game, both best in the league, New England has now scored 190 points in its past four games, the most in a four-game span during a single season since the 1950 Rams scored an NFL-record 208. The Patriots also top the AFC in turnover margin at plus-17."I thought it was almost impossible to score 35 points in a quarter, but they found a way to do it," said Jets coach Rex Ryan. "You have to give them a ton of credit. That's a great football team. Like I said, they don't need any help, and when you don't protect the football . 35 points in a quarter is ridiculous."The Patriots' mantra all season has been to play a full 60 minutes. On Thursday, however, 52 seconds was more than enough to quiet the Jets."This team is a steady group. When we play together, we play well. Good things happen," nose tackle Vince Wilfork said. "It starts being fun when you score 28 points in a quarter. All you can say is, `Wow.' "
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A Master's in Finance degree from the Eller College of Management is one of the best values in graduate education. Our reasonable tuition and the low cost of living in Tucson result in a positive and quick return on your investment.
For details, please scroll down or link below:
Full-Time MSF Tuition and Fees
2013-2014 Academic Year (estimate)
Please note, the Arizona Board of Regents has not finalized tuition for summer 2014 session as of May 21, 2013. The figures provided here are an estimate of the expected charges only.
Arizona State Residents |
Cost for 12-month Academic Program |
Cost for 16-month Academic Program |
Registration and UA fees | $29,809 |
$34,539 |
Living expenses | 14,334 |
14,334 |
Textbooks | 1,200 |
1,200 |
Miscellaneous | 4,800 |
4,800 |
Total |
$49,829 |
$54,873 |
Non-Residents/ |
Cost for 12-month Academic Program |
Cost for 16-month Academic Program |
Registration and UA fees | $46,791 |
$58,830 |
Living expenses | 14,334 |
14,334 |
Textbooks | 1,200 |
1,200 |
Required Health and Accident Insurance (12 month premium) |
1,660 |
2,324 |
International Student Fee | 275 |
275 |
Miscellaneous (e.g., travel) | 4,800 |
4,800 |
Total |
$68,746 |
$81,763 |
Information regarding housing, travel, and personal expenses are conservative estimates and are intended to give you a sense of these expenses.
The 12-month academic program cost estimates include tuition and fees for Fall, Spring and Summer semesters. The 16-month academic program cost estimates include expenses for Fall, Spring and Fall semesters only (e.g., living expenses for summer are not included). Registration and UA fees may vary depending on the number of credit hours of registration in a given semester (for both Arizona and non-Arizona residents).
Please note that the cost of a part-time program is more expensive. Tuition is charged based on units registered but is not calculated on a straight pro-ration. The UA Bursar's Office schedule of Tuition and Fees can provide an estimate of the tuition and fees charged for fewer than full-time credits.
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Applicants must have been admitted to the MMF program before The University of Arizona Office of Student Financial Aid (OSFA) will make financial aid awards. Graduate students must be enrolled at least halftime in order to receive federal loans.
External Funding Sources
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15 Jehovah hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy; the King of Israel, Jehovah, is in the midst of thee; thou shalt not see evil any more. | 15 The LORD has taken away your punishment, he has turned back your enemy. The LORD, the King of Israel, is with you; never again will you fear any harm. |
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I have Burton Cartel Bindings size L (10+)....
I have Burton Cartel Bindings size L (10+). I wear a size 10 in normal shoes and was thinking about getting size 10.5 in the motos per reviews. My question is with the new Shrinkage Footprint Reduction Technology, If I get these boots will my bindings no longer fit??
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Don't get 10.5. If you are 10 in shoes then get a 10 in boots. Burton boots are 1:1 lasting. This means they are made to fit your true size of foot. You bindings should be fine. You will have to adjust the straps but you will be all good.
your boots should not have a problem fitting the bindings if you get the ten
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Illegal fireworks set fire to this Orland Park home on Friday, July 4, 2014, fire officials said. | Supplied photo
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The roof of an Orland Park home caught fire on the Fourth of July, thanks to people shooting off illegal fireworks nearby, authorities said.
Orland Fire Protection District firefighters responded to the call on the 11200 block of Poplar Creek Lane on Friday night about 9 p.m., according to a press release. The fire occurred just before Orland Park's official government fireworks display was set to start, the released said.
"We constantly caution people about the dangers of fireworks being used by the public without professional supervision. They can injure people and they can cause fires. People watch as fireworks shoot up into the sky, and when done professionally, it is fun. But when it is done individually, the individuals forget that sometimes the fireworks can come back down and cause damage to property," OFPD Chief Ken Brucki said in the release. "Fortunately, this home fire, which we believe was caused by the use of fireworks, did not result in any injuries but it did cause what could have been a major fire that would have changed the lives of the people living in the home."
Neighbors called for help after noticing a fire on the roof. Firefighters arrived and extinguished the fire, limiting it to the roof above the garage, the release said. They limited damage to the home by keeping the fire from spreading into the living areas, the release said.
Orland Park Police were questioning someone, according to the release.
The fire district responded to other fires caused by fireworks in the area, but they were outdoors. It also sent help to fight a fire in the Northwest Homer Fire District, the release said.
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In 2013, it seems like everything's turning up Dwayne Johnson. In the next 12 months, Johnson has three dramatically different projects coming to theaters: the thrill ride Fast & Furious 6, black comedy Pain & Gain, and this Friday, the crime thriller Snitch.
The variety of genres these projects span epitomizes his evolution from "former wrestler" into multidimensional performer, able to move easily from comedy to action to virtually any genre or project Hollywood throws at him.
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Bad Press For Gold Farmers Affects Chinese Players
Re:Don't farmers just work with other farmers? (640 comments)
Wow, this got way off from the OP thread.
Bringing up Rwanda, Somalia, N.Korea, and China has nothing to do with Iraq, as LegendLength already pointed out. Prior decisions are no reason or excuse for future ones unless you have first proven that those prior decision(s) were validated and correct. Even then, you must consider the future decision in its own context.
That being said, consider Rwanda, Somalia, and North Korea. I exclude China because we could hardly consider invading them. Aside from the nuclear situation (the 3 others initially didn't possess a ballistic or nuclear threat), there are economic ones that would make war with them not feasible except in dire, world-war, kinds of situations. Furthermore, China has a stable, Communist party leadership, compared to the volatile despotism or revolution in the other 3.
Rwanda, Somalia, and North Korea all rose to prominence under a different President's watch, in a time when America had not been attacked. Consider how President G.W. Bush would have acted in a similar situation had he been in office in the mid-90s, especially if we had just suffered a terrorist attack. Furthermore, if you recall, we actually _did_ send troops to Rwanda and Somalia--a token force to the former, I believe, as part of multinational UN peacekeeper deployment. These three situations, as well as Rev. Jesse Jackon's infamous Sierra Leone settlement, represent situations where negotiation and appeasement resulted in varying combinations of: failure of their objective, massive loss of human life, and general weakening of respect for U.S. power.
Now, back to gold farmers. Whatever impact they have on the game, IMO ultimately it is up to the game creators--in the case of World of Warcraft, Blizzard--to manage this. This is an open economy--MMPORPGs are hardly a monopoly. If gamers dislike playing with people who are not playing for fun, but rather to make real money off gamers, then it is in the competitive interest of creators like Blizzard to manage this, through legal or technical means. Whether dislike comes from uninformed bigots, or geniunely frustrated gamers, this is yet another situation where--as the farmers have already proven--the dollar rules. And in this instance, the farmers are peasants, game creators are royalty, and US law is king.


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And the fact that this was moderated +5 Insightful shows why the industry has such a long way to go - men overreact and get defended, women overreact and get a tirade of abuse. (This is entirely outside the issue of whether any of the events in this story were appropriate).
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1 Now Moshe was tending the sheep of Yitro his father-in-law, the priest of Midyan. Leading the flock to the far side of the desert, he came to the mountain of God, to Horev. | 1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. |
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We talk about the Houston, Detroit and Chicago games. Listener emails. Our new contest. We go over the free agents we are rumored to be trying to get and explain why it isn't happening. We also talk about the rumor that D'Antoni might be fired before the Super Bowl. Download Episode 101
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Martin joins us on the show today. We go over the last three games against the Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks, and Boston Celtics. We talk about the teams outlook for the playoffs and the next two years, D'Antoni's coaching style, and what needs to be done for the Knicks to become a better team. We end the show by recapping our fantasy basketball league. Download Episode 49
Is Andy Rautins getting any better by not playing?
The Knicks are not winning the title this year. It is a fact, not a shocker and no fan will be disappointed when the Knicks do not win it. The Knicks are unlikely to go far in the playoffs and most fans will likely be happy if they can just push the first round to 7 games. The bar will be much higher next year when we have a full year of Carmelo and Amare plus possibly a few good pick-ups in the off-season. Knicks fans may not expect to win it next year but they do expect to at least go far in the playoffs.
So, how will the Knicks go from a good team to a great team. They will need to work on their chemistry. They will also need to develop the players around them. They will need a solid bench that can really help them compete the way Big Baby Davis makes the Celtics better or Jason Terry makes the Mavs better. They will also obviously need to get better on defense (but we will not focus on that now).
Where am I going with this? Well the Knicks are not going anywhere this year and unless things fall apart greatly they will at least make the playoffs. Why not use the rest of the season to find out what we have on the bench? Why not give Rautins, Derek Brown and Balkman some playing time? I am not saying these guys deserve to start or that we should give Carmelo a night off but why not run a larger rotation. Why not give them 10 minutes a night a see if they can earn more minutes especially on nights when their starters suck like last night against the Pacers. Not every game is a must win where your starters need to play 40 minutes when you know you are not going to win it all anyway.
Why not have a longer term approach? Andy Rautins is not getting much better by sitting out for a year. No one would argue Landry Fields would have been better off riding the bench all year. Roger Mason is not playing better lately because he sat on his butt for the first 60 games of the year. Why not give some playing times to guys that could be good role players next year and in the future. Let's see if some of these players deserve a roster spot next year. If Derek Brown is not good enough to get a look this year, why would he suddenly be good enough next year and why even waste a roster spot on him.
I understand these players practice and D'Antoni sees them there. The players do learn a lot in practice (at least on the offensive side) but it is hard to believe that just practicing without a chance to compete in real games will really develop these players into valuable pieces for the future.
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Well the Carmelo Anthony trade finally happened. We break down the pieces sent out and the pieces the Knicks get back. Marc raises some good questions including, will Stoudemire and Anthony be able to play together, will D'Antoni change his style to fit the players, how do we feel about the trade in general, will we root for the Knicks players that were traded, and what do we do if Isiah comes back. Download Episode 39
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We recap the Hawks/Knicks game, talk about Cleveland beating the Lakers and then spend the rest of the episode talking to Mike Kurylo from Knickerblogger.net. We talk about how Mike got started, some of the moves from the Isiah era, misleading stats, Carmelo Anthony and other potential trades, Donnie Walsh, favorite all-time Knicks and favorite current Knick, Mike D'antoni, and hating the Heat. Download Episode 37


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The new centre makes a bridge between the outstanding clinical expertise of Moorfields Eye Hospital and the research prowess of the adjacent Institute of Ophthalmology to provide a world class children's eye treatment facility. The arrangement of outpatients clinics, a day surgery unit, research facilities and short stay patient/parent hostel all within a very tight site has made the vertical connections between floors all important. On each floor light wells zig-zag up the building against the backdrop of a huge wall mural. Throughout, the design combines medical functionality with a rich, welcoming and easily navigable patient environment. The arresting exterior has a glass façade with a flowing pattern of aluminium solar control louvre blades - inspired by the idea of a wheeling flock of birds.
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Howell: Mussels scar waters
The latest TPWD news release concerning the invasion of zebra mussels hasn't gotten much press.
Speaking for the average fisherman and water enthusiast, I feel compelled to write about it, since it's a serious situation.
Zebra mussels have been positively identified in Lake Texoma. In addition, 13 other area lakes have tested positive for zebra mussel DNA, including the local waters of Ray Roberts, Bridgeport and Arrowhead.
What does this really mean? And why should we care? As I was explaining this to my sons, they assured me there are no zebras in the area, much less in the water, and why are their "muscles" bad?
Where do I begin? Zebra mussels are an invasive, freshwater bivalve (mollusk) species that encrust hard surfaces. They are an unwelcome European import, brought to the states in the late 1980s, most likely in the ballast water of a ship that traveled here. The infested water was dumped into Lake St. Clair, Mich. Exotics (nonnative species) can wreak havoc on a local ecosystem. Just ask someone who finds salvinia in his pond. There are literally hundreds of invasive species in our beautiful state, changing ecosystems and landscapes even as I write.
Zebra mussels, about the size of a thumbnail, are hardy, to say the least. Once introduced into a body of water, they take over; an adult female can release up to one million eggs in a year. They attach to any hard surface — boats, native mussels, crayfish, even trash found in the water. They can ruin your equipment, clogging motor cooling systems, fouling hulls, and jam centerboard wells under sailboats.
We should care because this infestation can hit us in our wallets.
I bet I have your attention now.
When these pesky exotics invade local waters, they clog power plant and public water intakes and pipes. Routine treatment is necessary, very expensive, and leads to increased utility bills. Seeing Arrowhead on the list of lakes testing positive for the DNA should have a sobering effect on many, especially those of us who depend on that lake for potable water.
A positive test for DNA doesn't necessarily mean there are mussels present; it does mean that we should be diligent on preventive measures and keep a close eye on the situation.
What can we do?
State agencies are preaching these three simple steps: 1) Clean — remove all plants, animals, mud, and thoroughly wash all crevices and surfaces on boats you put into any water body. 2) Drain — eliminate all water before leaving the lake, including live wells, ballast, and engine cooling water. 3) Dry — allow sufficient time for your boat to completely dry before launching into other waters (a seven day time period is advised). If you are unable to perform all three of these, you are advised to have your boat professionally cleaned with high-pressure scalding hot water (>140 degrees Fahrenheit) before putting it into another body of water.
Residents are urged to visit http://www.texasinvasives.org to learn more about how we can help preserve and protect the beautiful waters we enjoy. New regulations from TPWD may be on the horizon, as well, to help in this fight.
Boaters and anglers, this is extra work for you, no doubt about it. But we don't have a choice. If zebra mussels continue to spread unchecked, the probability of affecting water sources in cities from Wichita Falls to Dallas to Houston is sobering. For the Dallas and Houston areas alone, that's more than 12 million residents, more than any of 44 of our 50 states
As Benjamin Franklin so aptly put it, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Let's head off these pests before the "mussels grow muscles" in our waters.
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Can someone help me out a bit? I'm going to install my 2" AAL to the TSB spring pack, but have a couple of questions...
1. It looks like, once the AAL is compressed, it's gonna be too long, unless it goes inside the brackets (indicated by the red letter A). Is it supposed to go inside that bracket or is it supposed to stop before them? BTW, it doesn't matter which way I turn the AAL - it still looks like it will hit that bracket.
2. Will the AAL go in the spot indicated by the red line pointed to by the red letter B?
3. Chris4x4 mentioned once that if it's too long, I can just cut the end of the AAL off with an angle grinder. Does it matter if I lose the little rubber spacer at the end if I have to cut it off?
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