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COMS W 3136y Data Structures with C/C++
A second programming course intended for non-majors with at least one
semester of introductory programming experience. Basic elements of
programming in C and C++, array-based data structures, heaps, linked lists, C
programming in UNIX environment, object-oriented programming in C++, trees,
graphs, generic programming, and hash tables. - J. Lee
Prerequisites: COMS W1004, W1005, W1007 or ENGI E1006.
4-4 points.

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Posted 02 September 2014 - 09:24 AM
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Posted 02 September 2014 - 09:26 AM
I am a muslim by the way. It is commanded in Islam to help our christian and jewish brothers. I mainly do propaganda against masturbation and pornography. Too many people have fallen to them.
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Posted 02 September 2014 - 12:01 PM
Welcome to the home of love. Ye art a newbie, so am I. As for yer propaganda, God aid thee. I am a Jesuit and a friend to muslim people. Hope ye find more love from I and my Master. Welcome, brother.
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Posted 02 September 2014 - 05:08 PM
Our freedom of speach and press has been changed by our courts to mean freedom to sin. This is not the freedom that Jesus Christ gives us. He sets us free from the bondage to sin to be able to serve the Living God and Jesus Messiah. They and the Holy Spirit are one God and the Creator of the universe. Only He can truly set us free. Jesus also sets us free from trying to earn God's favor and offers us a free gift of God's unearned favor. That gift was purchased by Jesus when He died for our sins on the cross. It is out of gratitude that we serve Him.
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Posted 02 September 2014 - 06:02 PM
I am a muslim by the way. It is commanded in Islam to help our christian and jewish brothers. I mainly do propaganda against masturbation and pornography. Too many people have fallen to them.
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6
I Am Not Offended
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. Romans 3:19-20
But Do You Know You Offend The Very God?
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Romans 3:21-23
Who Created You?
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; Romans 3:24-25
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Romans 3:36-27
And Be Blessed Beloved
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Romans 3:28
Be Very Blessed
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. John 5:24
Love, Joe
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Glad to hear you seek . If you choose Christ I suggest you read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John three times through. Love you man.
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I have a love/hate relationship with these cigars. I love the flavor, the pepper, the spice, but I hate the inconsistency in how it's made. It has a nice amount of smoke, but then it will burn inconsistently. It has been my daily smoke for a while.
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Rolling Back Pay? Pregaming Next Week's Big Discrimination Argument.
Professor Deborah Hensler is quoted in the Wall Street Journal on Wal-Mart's sexual discrimination litigation case and where the U.S. Supreme Court typically stands on class action lawsuits. Ashby Jones reports :
Next Tuesday, down at One First St., N.E., arguably the most important sex-discrimination case to hit the Supreme Court in many years will receive a full airing.
It's hard to know exactly how the justices will rule, but one thing seems sure: the opinion that ultimately comes down later this year in the Wal-Mart v. Dukes case will likely dramatically alter the face of sex-discrimination litigation going forward.
So how will the case ultimately go? One would have to suspect that we're looking at a 5-4 decision in Wal-Mart's favor. "The court's majority has been hostile to class actions," Stanford Law Professor Deborah Hensler told the LAT.


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Hello All...how strict is or was your bedrest experience. My docs had me laying STRICTLY on my left side...I could spend 25% of my time on my right and 75% on my left, they would not allow me to lay on my back...for 5 weeks, it was horrific!!!! Is this style of bedrest typical? I don't think it would have been traumatic if I had been able to at least change positions more often. My ribs hurt, I got stiff, I'd find excuses like going to the bathroom just to get up. Lots of people who have never experienced this don't understand why I was so upset by being on bedrest, I guess they saw it as a vacation. I felt like a prisoner in my own body. Anyone else feel the same?
DD Emily born 4-01-04 at 37 weeks due to severe PE/Eclampsia. Currently postpartum preeclampsic.


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Luhr Brothers Inc., Columbia, Ill., was awarded on July 11, 2006, a $20,770,500 firm-fixed-price contract for Calcasieu River and Pass – Foreshore Dike construction. Work will be performed in Cameron Parish, La., and is expected to be completed by March 4, 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were an unknown number of bids solicited via the World Wide Web on May 26, 2006, and one bid was received. The Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans, La., is the contracting activity (W912P8-06-C-0165).
Alexandria, Va., was awarded on June 30, 2006, a delivery order amount of $18,111,097 as part of a $21,075,478 labor-hour contract for global property management support services. Work will be performed in Southwest, Asia, and is expected to be completed by June 30, 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were an unknown number of bids solicited via the World Wide Web on March 24, 2006, and four bids were received. The Army Field Support Command, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (W52P1J-06-D-0029).
AM General L.L.C., South Bend, Ind., was awarded on July 7, 2006, a $9,218,542 modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for purchase of M1152's on CLIN 6013AV. Work will be performed in South Bend, Ind., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This was a sole-source contract initiated on July 17, 2000. The Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (DAAE07-01-C-S001).
ITT Industries, System Division, Colorado Springs, Colo., is being awarded a $17,731,633 cost-plus-award fee contract modification. This system engineering and sustainment integrator (SENSOR) contract integrates system engineering and sustainment of ground-based missile warning, missile defense, and space surveillance sensors. The SENSOR systems currently include ground-based radars and optical systems controlled and operated by United States Strategic Command and Air Force Space Command. The mission of the Space Control Sensors Division and the Missile Warning and Defense Sensors Division is to acquire and sustain a worldwide, ground-based network of dedicated, collateral and contributing missile warning, space surveillance, and intelligence data collection sensors. These systems represent a major portion of the United States space command integrated tactical warning/attack assessment system and the space surveillance network. At this time, $2,108,804 has been obligated. This work will be complete June 2007. Electronic Systems Center Detachment 5, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., is the contracting activity (F19628-02-C-0010/P00102).
United Technologies Corp., Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Group, East Hartford, Conn., is being awarded a $16,501,537 firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed fee contract modification. This undefinitized contract action for F119 engines Lot 6 long lead items and field support and training period of performance extension. At this time, $12,376,153 has been obligated. Solicitations began July 2005 and negotiations were complete in July 2006. This work will be complete by December 2006. Headquarters Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8611-05-C-2851/P00007).
Rockwell Automation, Inc., Mayfield Heights, Ohio, is being awarded a $16,207,531 firm-fixed-price contract to deliver and install machinery control systems (MCSs) and components aboard designated Navy surface ships, and to provide related engineering and on-site technical support. The MCS on a Navy ship controls auxiliary machinery equipment including, but not limited to, the firemain system, the interior communications/standard module alarm monitoring system, list control system, JP-5 system and data acquisition system. The work will be performed at the contractor's facilities in Cleveland, Ohio (20 percent); Twinsburg, Ohio (20 percent); Mequon, Wis. (10 percent); Lady Smith, Wis. (10 percent); Richland Center, Wis. (10 percent); Dublin, Ga. (10 percent); and aboard pierside Navy surface ships (20 percent) in Norfolk, Va., Mayport, Fla., San Diego, Calif., Seattle, Wash., and Bremerton, Wash., and is expected to be completed by July 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was synopsized on the federal business opportunities website and competitively procured with five proposals received. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Ship System Engineering Station, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (N65540-06-D-0022).
DME Corp., Orlando Fla., is being awarded $10,197,897 for delivery order 0002 under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The order is for the VIPER third echelon test set (TETS) radio frequency variant and associated equipment. TETS is an automated field fault isolation system for maintenance of weapons systems. The contract was competitively awarded. Work will be performed entirely in Orlando, Fla., and is expected to be completed in April 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $5,186,546 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for technical assistance for repairables processing program services. This contract has three one-year option periods, which if exercised, will bring the total estimated value of the contract to $20,394,322. Work will be performed in various CONUS (25 percent) and OCONUS (75 percent) locations, and work is expected to be completed by August 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was awarded competitively through Navy electronic commerce online, with one offer received. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity (N00140-06-C-0062).


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August 4, 2015
AUSTIN, Texas -- A top aide to Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst who is under criminal investigation for allegedly stealing campaign funds was accused in court this summer of defaulting on a $475,000 settlement with a land developer.
Court documents obtained Friday accuse Kenneth Barfield of having a history of "failing to disclose all of his bank accounts" to S&K Development Company Inc. The company accused Barfield of moving around the $30,000 a month he was reportedly paid by the David Dewhurst Campaign.
Barfield was Dewhurst's campaign manager and ran his failed bid for the U.S. Senate. New state filings show the campaign with $700,000 less cash on hand than originally reported.
Dewhurst's campaign accuses Barfield of taking money for his "personal benefit."
Neither Barfield nor his attorney immediately returned message seeking comment.
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Stung by the entirely accurate criticism that it is one of the worst-run transit agencies in America, San Jose's VTA has come up with a breath-taking plan for improving its efficiency. Naturally enough, the plan is called the light-rail transit efficiency project.
Click image to download an 8-MB presentation describing San Jose's "light-rail efficiency plan."
The plan (see summary here) consists of spending up to $25 million building two passing tracks so that express light-rail trains can pass local trains in downtown San Jose. I know what you're thinking: this has to be a work of genius. I mean, who would ever think of one transit vehicle passing another? Except, of course, buses, which do it all the time and which don't need millions of dollars of new infrastructure to make it possible.


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our seasonLe Melezin runs from mid December to mid April
our reservation officeWinter season: 7.00am - 1.00amMid April - Mid December:Mon-Fri, 9.00pm - 5.00pm
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During the winter ski season, from December to February, average temperatures range from -15°C (5°F) to 5°C (41°F). During the spring ski season, from March to April, average temperatures range from -5°C (23°F) to 20°C (68°F). Snow conditions are excellent, with six to eight metres each winter and very well maintained slopes. Artificial snow is used to ensure good snow conditions over the Three Valleys round trip at the beginning of winter.
French is the main language of communication. English is also spoken at the resort, as are Italian, German and Spanish.
The Euro is the only currency accepted in Courchevel. There are opportunities for exchange of U.S. Dollars, Swiss Francs or Sterling Pounds.
European Union nationals do not require visas but valid passports and visas are required for visitors from most other countries. Guests are advised to check with their nearest French embassy or consulate.
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Electricity is 220 volts and the sockets take standard two-pin round plugs. Courchevel's time zone is plus one hour GMT.


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Welcome to the Choir Website
Choral singing in Kenfig Hill can be traced back as far as 1890 when the Kenfig Hill Male Voice Party won competitions from as far as the lovely Vale of Glamorgan to the distant coastal town of Swansea. Since those days, many choirs under the Kenfig Hill banner have come and gone. The predecessor to the present choir was forced to disband through lack of public support in 1949.
For more than 20 years the male choral vacuum remained unfilled until in December 1971 a small band of hopefuls from the village met at the local rugby club and formed the present choir. It started life with just 18 members and has since grown to over 70.
Now internationally renowned, this premier Welsh Choir has performed in many European countries including; Norway, Germany, France, Poland and Estonia and has twice toured Canada. In the UK the Choir has appeared in such prestigious concert venues as; The Royal Albert Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, De Monfort Hall Leicester and The Millennium Centre and St David's Hall both in Cardiff. The Choir has also performed in some notable religious venues including; York Minster, Bradford Cathedral, Selby Abbey, Doncaster Minster and St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. The Choir is also proud to have sung in its three seats of political power; the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the Palace of Westminster in London and the home of the Welsh Government the Senedd in Cardiff. Making its first visit to Jersey in 2013 the Choir gave a Grand Charity Gala Evening in the island's magnificent Opera House.
The choir rehearses in the Choral Suite at the Greenacre Motel, North Cornelly each Monday and Thursday evenings. Visitors who would like to come along between 7.30pm and 9pm to see the choir at work, in the preparation of their music, will be assured of a very warm welcome.
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The "New York Times"
To the Editor:
I appreciate the attention that Joseph Epstein gave my book, Behind the Times: Inside the New New York Times, in his provocative article, "The Degradation of the New York Times" [May]. I also thank him for describing me as an "energetic reporter" and availing himself in his piece of so much of the material from my book. However, I must quarrel with his major misreadings of the book. To take one of his most serious misrepresentations, he writes that the Times's former executive editor A.M. Rosenthal is "one of Diamond's great villains." Mr. Epstein then suggests that I consider Rosenthal "guilty of effectively moving the Times to the Right." Further, Mr. Epstein accuses me of calling Rosenthal a "misogynist and homophobe." Wrong, wrong, wrong.
First, Rosenthal is, in fact, a larger-than-life figure who dominates my book by the force of his personality and intelligence. While he appears throughout the book—my narrative encompasses the 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's, the period of his greatest activity at the Times—I devote an entire chapter to his accomplishments. It is called "Last of the Red Hot Mamas"—Rosenthal's own description of himself to me in our interviews (how can a Sophie Tucker figure be a villain?). Second, I show how the publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, and the business side of the paper moved the Times to the Right. Rosenthal, the fearsome editor, I concluded, served as another of the hired hands of the Sulzberger family. (Nowhere, not so incidentally, do I criticize this rightward shift; I report it.) Finally, Mr. Epstein's homophobia reference is particularly egregious. I devote close attention to the Times's treatment of the AIDS epidemic and examine some gay activists' allegations that the Times news department lagged in its early coverage. I specifically report that some subeditors in the newsroom interpreted Rosenthal's attitude as homophobic. But then I specifically document how Rosenthal's Times—and Max Frankel's—did devote great attention to the AIDS story. And I analyze how demographic considerations shaped coverage along with news values. It is an analysis that goes against the conventional wisdom of the subject.
To conclude on a personal note: Mr. Epstein presumes to know my politics, considering me, on his pop-eyed reading of my book, a hopeless liberal. But I saw my role as a nonideological one, that of describing what has been happening at the Times over the past 25 years. When, in the final pages of my book, I permit myself what Mr. Epstein would consider political judgments, they are not putatively "liberal" ones. Thus, I describe the Times's current publisher as promoting a kind of "skin-deep diversity in the newsroom"—and I call that a limp banner for rallying the cause of serious journalism. Maybe that is why long-time Village Voice columnist Geoffrey Stokes, in his review of Behind the Times, wrote that my "conservative biases" were showing.
With critics like Stokes and Epstein, I'll take energetic reporting any day.
Edwin Diamond
Washington, D.C.
To the Editor:
Edwin Diamond has sent me a copy of his letter to COMMENTARY about Joseph Epstein's comments on his book about the New York Times. Since Mr. Diamond's letter is largely about me, I thought it would be useful if I replied in COMMENTARY on my own behalf.
I have not read Mr. Diamond's book. I did take it from the shelf in a bookstore, intending to buy it. I looked myself up in the index and read a few of the references to me. Each one was either inaccurate, mean-spirited, or stale, untrue gossip. The same tired stuff, to me devoid of sophistication or knowledgeability about journalism, which I understand he now teaches.
I thought, who needs this nonsense?—and I put the book back. I have not heard it discussed since.
So I cannot comment directly on the book itself. But Mr. Diamond's letter to COMMENTARY shows me how wise and sensibly thrifty of my money and time I was.
In his letter, Mr. Diamond says that the publisher of the paper, then Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, now the chairman of the New York Times Company, and Walter Mattson, the business manager of the paper, moved the paper to the Right and that I served as a hired hand in the process.
The comment shows a painful lack of knowledge about the paper. In the 25 years I was an editor, the business side of the paper never, but never, tried to steer me or the news columns of the paper in any political direction, Left, Right, up, or down. Walter Matt-son, head of the business department when I was managing or executive editor, took as much pride in the paper as I or Mr. Sulzberger and was as determined as either of us to make sure that no political pressure, from within or without, was placed on the reporters and editors. I understand that is difficult for Mr. Diamond to grasp, but he might try.
Secondly, neither Mr. Sulzberger nor I moved the paper to the Right. What we tried to do, and successfully, was to prevent the news columns from being used politically, consciously or unconsciously, by editorialization in the news columns, unfair attack, anonymous pejorative criticism, and other violations of what we considered decent journalism and the standards of the Times. In other words, we kept the paper straight.
Again, I understand Mr. Diamond may find this hard to grasp. I believe that is because Mr. Diamond, like so many other interviewers, suffers from an interesting problem. He erects a mirror between himself and the subject so when he looks at the subject he really is looking at himself. He knows that if he were the publisher or editor of the Times, he damned well would try to impose his own opinions and political biases on the news columns. He assumes therefore that I or Mr. Sulzberger would do so too. It does not occur to him that the subject of the interview might be considerably stronger, more ethical, or a better and more honest journalist than he.
These interviewers who see themselves in the mirror tell a great deal about themselves, but not much about the people foolish enough to have given them time. Mr. Diamond does not understand much about Mr. Sulzberger, Mr. Mattson, or about me, but of course I accept the fact that he knows himself well.
A.M. Rosenthal
New York City
To the Editor:
What Joseph Epstein seems to mean when he refers to the "degradation" of the New York Times is that it is not as far Right politically as he is. Many of us feel that the Times is better than ever. . . . In my opinion, the Times's treatment of foreign affairs is excellent. As I often say, the Times is not just the best paper in the country, it's the only one.
[Rabbi] Samuel M. Silver
Temple Sinai
Delray Beach, Florida
To the Editor:
Joseph Epstein must be growing weary of the burden of carting around his procrustean bed of bias in laying out first the New York Review of Books ["Thirty Years of the New York Review," December 1993] and now the New York Times itself. Mr. Epstein has emerged as our articulate vigilante in sniffing out traces of liberal and/or leftist thinking as he defines it. He spares no one in his broad sweep of Times writers, then and now. He lampoons the article on begging on New York streets because it did not take a position. I read the same piece and was impressed by the writer's intimation of the complexity of the issue itself. Mr. Epstein wants the Times to come down hard in concluding what Mr. Epstein concludes.
The fact is that, despite his protests, Mr. Epstein simply wants the Times to write as he thinks. He did not like it when Arthur Krock, James Reston, and C.L. Sulzberger wrote in the past any more than he likes Anna Quindlen or Anthony Lewis today. Nonetheless, . . . Times writers continue to win front-ranking recognition among newspaper people the country over.
Charles Ansell
Sherman Oaks, California
To the Editor:
In his critique of the current management of the New York Times, Joseph Epstein refers to the ease with which it is possible to predict any Times editorial position. I assume that this is meant as a point of criticism, since Mr. Epstein goes on to note the enjoyment he derives from watching the Times editorial writers "squirm" in rationalizing the irrational. On the other hand, as Mr. Epstein himself chooses to publish in COMMENTARY, whose editorial predictability is granite compared with the New York Times's clay, the state of his actual feelings vis-à-vis editorial predictability is somewhat mysterious to me.
Michael Halpern
Glenside, Pennsylvania
To the Editor:
Joseph Epstein's article is sad and true. But in his polite manner he has failed to point out how the paper has injected a very real element of danger into the country's intellectual climate.
In the midst of intense fear and public confusion about crime and its causes, the Times fails to see how it is demonizing a very large group of (primarily white, middle-class) people as causing and contributing to crime rather than having opposing political or intellectual views from those held by the Times staff. . . . As recently as May 3, the Times continued to create the justification for a reprehensible intellectual climate of scapegoating, when, in an editorial, it accused almost four million people, members of the National Rifle Association, of participating in "well-organized fanaticism." And that was very polite language and wording relative to its normal vitriol on this topic. . . .
Mark S. Levey
Chicago, Illinois
To the Editor:
Joseph Epstein notes the stuffy style of the old New York Times. It still is boring, especially when, striving not to be, it starts news columns as if they were novels—"Joe Blow sawed planks for his Xanthian village. . . ." It ignores the basic news-story format, which runs from the general to the particular, so busy readers can grasp the story's framework and its major points quickly. Although wordy, the articles often omit explanation, leaving readers perplexed and fatigued. . . .
A font of misinformation, the Times advocates its traditionally anti-Zionist view with a preponderance of articles favoring the Arabs. . . . Despite frequent denunciations of extremism, it disproportionately quotes appeasement-minded Jewish extremists as if they were the authority on Israel, and it allows vicious Arab slander against Israel to go unchallenged. Photos, headlines, terminology, and maps are distorted. Just before the Six-Day War, Jordan occupied Judea and Samaria, but Times maps showed the area as part of Jordan. Just after the war, when those territories reverted to Israeli control, . . . Times maps showed the area as "occupied" by Israel, a misconception now quite popular. . . .
Richard H. Shulman
New York City
To the Editor:
Thank you for Joseph Epstein's excellent discussion of the New York Times. He has confirmed my lingering suspicion that the newspaper I used to revere has lately become (I choose my words carefully) full of crap. The Times is clearly written these days for a few hundred people between the ages of twenty-one and forty, who reside on Manhattan's Upper East Side, summer on Fire Island, and spend most of their waking hours shopping for beads, torn jeans, organic vegetables, and "relationships."
Those of us who still appreciate the profession of journalism . . . and serious journalists have long ago fled to the glorious and uplifting oases of the Wall Street Journal and COMMENTARY!
Jeffrey Roberts
Jericho, New York
To the Editor:
Joseph Epstein's "The Degradation of the New York Times" is right on target. Having read the Times since its two-cent days, I have seen the disintegration of what used to be called an institution. But, like Mr. Epstein, I continue the habit, albeit now down to three times a week.
Why the editors of the Times, with its reputation for quality, scurry about "in an attempt to keep up with what they construe to be the spirit of the age" is disconcertingly puzzling. . . . Certainly Mr. Epstein is correct in claiming that the Times is trying ever so hard to be "with-it." . . . Take the Sunday magazine section. If by chance an interesting topic is broached, the so-called hip style turns curiosity into boredom in its condescension to the non-literate public. Even film reviews no longer educate taste, but cater to the fashion of television soap opera. Unlike Mr. Epstein, I used to enjoy some of the weekly special sections. Today, however, with the distracting graphs and data charts, . . . contemplation of serious issues is no longer needed. But one thing that has remained consistent is the Times's anti-Zionist, anti-Israel policy. . . .
The radicalization of the New York Times on all levels—quality, opinion, taste, even format (I think of the classic layout of page one and of a time when only a declaration of war or peace brought forth across-the-page headlines . . .)—calls for a new newspaper for New Yorkers. Perhaps Mr. Epstein and Hilton Kramer, who has written some scathing articles criticizing the Times in the New York Post, will take up this torch so that I may once again read a newspaper daily.
Daniel Spicehandler
New York City
To the Editor:
In "The Degradation of the New York Times," Joseph Epstein does not claim to have made a full diagnosis of that influential institution. But his article suggests that the effects of the paper's decline are relatively localized and innocuous. The Times's pathologies—its lock-step compliance (bordering on parody) with the program and practices of political correctness; its timid embrace of multiculturalism as long as the culture is not conventional Western; its paternalistic and politicized news coverage; and its unending, uncritical, and unoriented life-style fluff—are more pervasive and consequential than Mr. Epstein suggests.
As the nation's de-facto paper of record, the Times is the most important single source of nontechnical information on the events of the day. While it is nice to have numerous sources of fragmentary or specialized news and commentary, people benefit from having all issues addressed in one voice and in one place. A paper of record does that. Moreover, a paper of record serves as an accessible and continuous reference point (or standard) for fixing the scope and tenor of public debate over the issues of our time. . . .
While there exists no formal device for investing the Times, or any other paper, with the powers and responsibilities of an official paper of record, for whatever reasons it just so happened that the Times came to fill this role in the United States and it did so while delighting in the accompanying influence and moral weight. Perhaps one of the reasons many people find the paper's current shrill tone so grating is that, apart from an ingrained abhorrence of moral self-righteousness, one feels that a position of trust and power (albeit informal) has been abused. It is analogous to the otherwise disproportionate interest in some of the Clintons' prior activities: if someone sets himself up as a moral arbiter (or a patron saint of a politics of meaning) or presumes to revamp broad walks of life with which he has no direct knowledge other than something he read in a book or heard at careerist networking symposia, he had better be able to meet high standards indeed.
Mr. Epstein could have spoken more broadly:
- It is not merely, as he writes, that "the true politics of the new New York Times are to be found at work on the issues of feminism, racism, homosexuality." This suggests that in the Times these issues have no radical priority over all others of concern to humankind. Obviously, the paper continues to run measured and neutral articles on some issues (Bosnia and business coverage, perhaps). But in fastidious accord with PC practice in the university, the paper is obsessed with these issues, which govern its coverage of all others (when they do not displace them altogether). The litmus test for government competence and administration is diversity in staffing; the litmus test for political compassion and responsiveness is AIDS mobilization; that for sound military policy (as for organized religion) is "gender" sensitivity; and so on. Symptomatic of issue displacement is that items on the Navy's Tail-hook convention, gays in the military, and coeducation at The Citadel substantially outnumber those on all issues regarding worldwide arms proliferation, Latin America, and South Asia combined. . . .
- When, as Mr. Epstein notes, the editorial positions of the Times are predictable in their entirety, they are obviously not the work of serious or discriminating mentalities. Politics and social life are complex. The predictability of Times editorials demonstrates more adolescent certitude than any practical insight. . . . Normally one thinks of editorials as places for adducing facts, identifying distinctions, developing an analysis, i.e., for making an argument. If courts should be finding broad abortion rights, what are the pertinent facts regarding fetal development or constitutional law? You will not learn these or other things in Times editorials, which merely cheer when the Times likes something and whine when it does not. . . .
- The Times is immune to the basic notion that, in our system of government, judges apply and interpret the law, but that the people's elected representatives make the laws and set policy. The Times rarely inquires whether judges make correct legal decisions. It wonders only whether there has been a happy outcome. Thus, it will express endless adulation on the resignation of this or that judge, . . . with scarcely a sentence regarding whether the judge's decisions were generally accurate legally. This aversion to the rough and tumble of democratic debate and majority rule . . . resonates in the Times's policies on printing letters to the editor. One almost never sees there an animated incisive attack on the policies of the Times itself (even though the paper must receive boxes of them every day).
Perhaps at the end of the day the decline of the Times is felicitous for our social and political culture. It diminishes the authority and influence which the Times wielded as a de-facto paper of record. But whether we have a malfunctioning paper of record or have lost one altogether, the circumstance is regrettable.
Thomas A. Connolly
New York City
Joseph Epstein writes:
Edwin Diamond is apparently one of those cheerful writers who go happily about their work, letting the details pile up, without having a very strong sense of the cumulative picture such details leave when taken together. So allow me to assure Mr. Diamond that his picture of A. M. Rosenthal is a mocking and cruel one, making the case that Rosenthal, during his tenure as editor of the New York Times, was a bully, a social climber, a stultifier of progress, and a man who above all looked out for Number One, which is to say, for himself.
Mr. Diamond takes pleasure in the fact that the politics of his book were found wanting in both the Village Voice and COMMENTARY, and chooses to see this as evidence of the undoctrinaire quality and hence fundamental soundness of those politics. I think he might do better to consider that the general political line in his book comes off as unconvincing from various, even strikingly dissimilar, points of view.
I wonder if I cannot kill three different birds with one distinction by reminding Rabbi Samuel M. Silver, Charles Ansell, and Michael Halpern that I am not for a moment asking that the New York Times share my politics; all I am asking is that the paper live up to its pretensions as a national newspaper by being as objective, as fair-minded, and (in its reporting) as unbiased as the best journalism has always claimed to be.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Safety in the Eye of the Storm,
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As the second novel in Barker's "Regeneration" trilogy, this one continues to explore the depravity, insanity and outright pathos of war as it warped and destroyed the collective soul of the British nation in W.W.I. The story is an interconnected tale of a host of pathetic individuals - among which is an unhappy imprisoned suffragette, a troubled intelligence officer - all who have become the victims of meat-grinder circumstances well beyond their control both on the homefront and out in the trenches. The awful memes of ordinary people being put through the mill of a senseless war, systematically dehumanized by the most brutal acts of state-run terror, makes for a disturbing read. This is a poignant account of how the ravages of war can turn the world upside down by radically changing people's morals and feelings. This part of the trilogy looks at Prior's life as a person officially assigned to keep a close eye on society's dangerous malcontents and flakes. It just so happens that the people he is to watch are connected to his past. Nothing is straight forward in war in the search for traitors. Nothing is spared as to how far the military and the government is prepared to sustain this evil enterprise, even if it destroys minds, turning friends against friends, impoverishes individuals and families, and silences true love. Playing in the background, in a not-too-subtle fashion, is a reminder that one of Oscar Wilde's not so nice plays, Salome, is playing in London and has attracted the attention of the authorities as to its potential to unsettle the nation so close to 'winning' the war. This piece of theatre is there to remind the reader that, ironically, even Herod's evil kingdom back then knew when to draw the line on acts of senseless cruelty. The reference in the title to the eye in the door shows how intent the nation's leaders are in making everyone aware they are being watched for the least suggestion of treason. As in the case of the poet Sassoon, one of the story's main characters, maybe the only place of true safety in this whole mess is to return to the killing fields where the eyes of an intrusive state can't penetrate.
5.0 out of 5 stars Healthy and Unhealthy Mind Dualities Driven by War Tragedies and Paranoia,
Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 127,000 Helpful Votes Globally) - See all my reviews
If you haven't read Regeneration, you are making a big mistake if you read The Eye in the Door before Regeneration. Regeneration sets the stage for The Eye in the Door and provides much background information that you need to appreciate this book.
Those who liked the first book in the Regeneration trilogy, Regeneration, will absolutely adore The Eye in the Door. The characters from Regeneration return, and you have a chance to find out the consequences of the treatments they received from Dr. William Rivers in Regeneration. Pat Barker builds on the tensions, damage, doubts, and despair of mid-World War I to show how much more desperate matters were for the British by the spring of 1918.
In developing these themes, Pat Barker does a masterful job of explaining how a soldier has to operate both by emotion and by objective distance in order to function. From there, she helps us use the crucible of war to see how that duality is important to everyday functioning for all people.
As the title indicates, the book builds on a central metaphor of everyone being under observation as doubts build about Britain's ability to win the war. Those on the margins are most under pressure and at greatest risk.
I thought that the portrayal of Lieutenant Billy Prior was brilliant. He comes across as the kind of complex, interesting character that can help us learn a lot about Ms. Barker's messages for us. The eye metaphor is nicely developed in the context of Billy's life.
Brava, Ms. Barker!
4.0 out of 5 stars Jekyll and Hyde shell-shocked,
John Green "Jesnnot" (Berwyn, PA United States) - See all my reviews
THE EYE IN THE DOOR (spoilers)
Ms Barker's epigraph, a quote from Stevenson, sets the tone: "It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man. I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both."
I am hampered in critiquing the trilogy, since I've read only the first two works, REGENERATION and THE EYE IN THE DOOR. The first of these concentrates on the relation between the enlightened, humane Dr Rivers and the war hero/war protester Siegfried Sassoon, who has been labeled a war neurotic ("shell-shocked") in order to avoid confronting his rational case against the war. Both Rivers and Sassoon are historical characters who the author effectively fictionalizes (their dialogues, etc).
The second novel focuses on the relation between Rivers and Billy Prior, a relatively minor character in the first. The book is set on a wider stage than REGENERATION, which was confined to the (real) mental hospital of Craiglockhart in Scotland. Here we are in London, during the crisis produced by the initial success of the Germans' spring offensive in 1918. As happens during defeats, the search is on for scapegoats seen as undermining the war effort, groups like pacifists and ... who are seen as destroying the nation's "moral fiber." Ludicrously, the leading anti-... crusader, lays the blame on the Germans, who are said to have sent homosexual agents over before the war to corrupt English youth.
Billy Prior, on medical leave from the front, works for a counter-intelligence agency, but his loyalties are divided, since his earliest friends are pacifists and "conchies" (conscientious objectors). The result of these divided loyalties is a split consciousness, where the fugue state ("Hyde") takes over at times, doing things that the "daytime" Billy is not aware of, but whose consequences nevertheless he must face. It is this split consciousness that Rivers must deal with-and on one occasion, he deals directly with "Hyde," who speaks of Billy in the third person.
At the crisis of the novel, Billy's alter ego betrays his closest friend, something that the daytime Billy at first denies doing, but which he finally comes to suspect he has actually done. Rivers treats the psychological phenomenon by making Billy see that it is basically Oedipal, that he actually wished to kill his father, who had, in Billy's sight and hearing, beat and abused his mother. One manifestation of this hatred is "Hyde's": punching the agent provocateur Spragge, who looks like Billy's father. To complicate the issue, his father is a socialist/pacifist, a fact which may contribute to Billy's ambivalent attitude to his pacifist friends, one of whom he helps, as he betrays the other.
Sassoon make another appearance here, having gone back to France (partly at Rivers' suggestion), and once again been wounded (by friendly fire). But Sassoon's appearance doesn't seem to contribute to the plot of this novel, tho it may have a role to play in the trilogy as a whole. (Maybe his divided consciousness is relevant, since he was very effective at killing Germans, but at home becomes a "dove") Another seemingly extraneous thread is Manning, one of Billy's sex partners.
But basically a rich novel, recalling a key point in Western history. In many ways, WWI was more traumatic than WWII, since it occurred after almost a century or relative peace in Europe. And, as Barker makes clear, WWI was harder on soldiers than was WWII.
Trivia: Why were French troops show on the covers of the paper editions of the first two novels? They play no role in the novels themselves (tho they played the major role on the Western Front).
5.0 out of 5 stars A lovely book,
firstname.lastname@example.com (Belfast) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Eye In The Door (Paperback)
People existing against a war background-normal people doing normal things whilst shouldering the burden of their experiences, their fears and societies norms and expectations.
A lovely book that always has the lightest of touches in the darkest of moments. Nothing is simple and nothing is complicated, but everything is ambiguous and dwarfed by "the front" and what is expected.
The writing is always simple, but the ideas, concepts and dilemmas dealt with are complex and impossible to resolve. Class and duty are themes; the most interesting theme in my opinion is that of being a pacifist, a father figure to your men and a violent war hero simultaneously. (By the nature of things, war heroes are violent.)
My one regret is that I have only just realised that this book is part of a trilogy and that I have read it out of sequence... although on the positive side it means I have two more books to explore. I would strongly recommend this book; I have just gone and bought one of Sassoon's books as a direct result of it awakening school hood poems by him and Wilfred Owens.
4.0 out of 5 stars "People don't want reasons, they want scapegoats",
S. Calhoun "rhymeswithorange" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
THE EYE IN THE DOOR is the second installment in Pat Barker's marvelous Regeneration trilogy. In this volume the principle characters of Dr. Rivers and Prior have left Criaglockhart War Hospital and are now living in London. Although Dr. Rivers has taken a new position treating shell-shock soldiers who have returned from the front in France, he continues to keep in touch and treat his former patients from Criaglockhart, especially Prior. Amidst the bombing and blackouts of wartime London, Prior continues to suffer from war neurosis as he embarks on solving a mystery that involves his childhood friends and acquaintances. He is confronted by England's societal fixation with fear and scapegoating of those who are believed to deter from the war effort (mainly war deserters and homosexuals). Individuals are often forced to hide their true attributes from society during this time of societal finger pointing and blaming. As in the previous volume of this trilogy, the characters of Prior and Dr. Rivers are well developed and nuanced. I continually enjoy reading about their trials and tribulations, and look forward to reading the third and final volume in this trilogy.
5.0 out of 5 stars The Regeneration Trilogy,
Steven Reynolds (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
Pat Barker's magnificent trilogy is not only a profound contribution to our literature on the First World War - it is also one of the most distinguished works of contemporary fiction in any genre. Barker doesn't skirt around the central issues with a po-faced patriotic reverence, but rather tackles them head on: the agonizing contradictions of patriotism and protest; the politics of social and self-surveillance; the homoerotic undertones of trench camaraderie, especially among the war poets; the horrendous physical and psychological costs of war; and the sense of personal duty which drives us, nonetheless, to fight. These are big themes, but Barker's talent is to handle them in a way which makes her novels feel like an easy read. They are accessible, engaging, seemingly simplistic in their style - but in the end profoundly moving in a way which only the highest literature aspires to be. The trick is that she makes her characters so real for us - Prior and Rivers, the consistent protagonists, are completely human. She makes us experience a world-historical incident on a very human scale. Harrowing, intelligent, moving and funny, Barker has crafted a fictional epic that will stay with you forever. Walking through Sydney's Central railway station months after finishing these books, I came across the honour boards listing the hundreds of railway men and women who died in the Great War. Barker's books made the war real for me, made these lives - these deaths - real. If they do nothing more than that for you, they've succeeded.
5.0 out of 5 stars �a strip of empathic wallpaper�,
If "Regeneration" were to be considered the story of Dr. Rivers and his patient Siegfried Sassoon, "The Eye In The Door" might be said to be the story of the same doctor and another patient, Mr. Billy Prior. I also would say that the opening comment is an oversimplification. The first two volumes of this trilogy are amazingly rich in detail and personality, and part three, "The Ghost Road", is proving to be no different.
The title of this review is a quote expressed by Prior early in his treatment with Dr. Rivers. It describes a fictional character, but it also demonstrates Pat Barker's brilliant use of words. She has the ability to transform a cliché, to make it fresh, her own, as when she speaks through a female character, "In her world, men loved women as the fox loves the hare. And women loved men as the tapeworm loves the gut." A bit more thought provoking than, men are from Mars, women from Venus.
Mr. Prior becomes an amalgam for many, and perhaps most of the issues the first two books explore. He also through his complex of issues, greatly affects Dr. Rivers. The Doctor cannot maintain complete detachment; one scene even has them switching roles, with Prior drilling into the painful childhood of his advisor. The relationship between Rivers and Prior becomes so psychologically intense, the doctor finds himself dreaming the nightmares "of others". He starts to identify with a critical event that may have damaged Prior as a child. The timing and location of their respective young fears is amazingly similar.
Ms. Barker seems to use the doctor as a metaphor for his patients and their collective experiences. Prior has more going on within his world than anyone could be expected to cope with and remain sane. Prior exists in many states, almost all of which are in impossible contradiction. His mental state eventually reaches a point where his mind makes a severe adjustment in an attempt to cope. With him Ms. Barker has created one of the more complex characters in fiction.
Prior is a decorated soldier who returns to the War four times. Prior is a man whose childhood friends are pacifists. He meets with several and contrary to his duty as a soldier does not turn them in. He tries to have one objector released from jail, the justification is perjured testimony, the truth is quite different.
This installment takes place during the trial when Lord Alfred Douglas made his famous statement in court, that Robert Ross a friend of Oscar Wilde, was "the leader of all the sodomites in London". This too was the time of the black book with 47,000 names of "degenerates" that were "causing" the War to turn against England.
In the midst of all of this, Prior is working for the Government, he is a soldier, he empathizes with pacifist friends, helping them while denouncing their philosophy. He is a bisexual male who also is engaged to marry. His relationships with men do not abate when he decides to wed. He has been wounded and sent back to fight, he has been treated for shellshock and has been sent back to fight, and he is an asthmatic who is sent to fight in the gas of Flanders, twice.
This is one patient amongst many Dr. Rivers has and continues to treat. He has begun to suffer in ways that were once the purview of his patients. His feelings about the War do not change; at least he believes they do not. And guilt becomes a catalyst for his own terrors and nightmares.
And to make sure the reader is kept working, Ms. Barker brings back Siegfried Sassoon, a new version of him perhaps, but extremely interesting as well.
The small number of reviews surprised me for so acclaimed a work. My thought is that some material, while important to the story, is just too graphic for some readers. Ms. Barker holds nothing back when describing the horror of War, so it would have been inconsistent to back off on issues or actions that are potentially contentious for some. As I said in my review of the first book, I make no judgment on the subjects or readers. I believe the writer wanted to bring the full force of all aspects of her work to the reader, and for that I believe her courage is to be admired. She does not vary the intensity to the sensibilities of what may be an issue for some, she writes her books, as she needs to tell her story, she is a gutsy lady.
4.0 out of 5 stars A fine novel in a wonderful trilogy,
The first world war exerts a strange facsination for British writers. In recent years Alan Bleasdale (in television's The Monocled Mutineer), Sebastian Faulks, and Pat Barker, have all produced fine work relating to the war to end all wars. Even a fine genre writer like Reginald Hill (in The Wood Beyond) writes about the era.
The reasons for turning to this era are manifold. For the United Kingdom it marked the end of the nineteenth century, the beginning of the twentieth, in that the role of women in society, and that of the working class, changed forever. Emancipated, and with a democratic voice, British politics then changed.
Pat Barker's early novels engage with big social questions. Her novels set in northern English towns consider the class structure, and feminist issues, amid a "gritty" landscape. Her "Regeneration" trilogy is something of a departure in ostensible subject matter - but considering British social history, one can see why Barker turned to the era.
The Eye in the Door is the middle book in the trilogy. It is probably the poor relation in the trilogy, but is in many ways the most interesting novel. Where, Regeneration is set among the recuperating servicemen at the Craiglockhart hospital, this novel is English-based. Set in and around a government ministry in London and the north of England, it evokes a sense of society at the time. Barker also merges fact and fiction - using real life characters (such as the poet Seigfreid Sassoon and Dr W H Rivers) and situations (a libel trial based on a supposed list of deviants in the upper echelons of British society), and merging them in to her fictional backdrop.
This is aided by the central character, Billy Prior. Prior is working class, but an officer. Bisexual, he has no shame about his sexuality. Prior is a masterful character. Having been anicllary in Regeneration (which focussed on the relationship between Seigfried Sassoon and Rivers), Prior becomes the focus of the trilogy. His character out of sorts in both worlds he inhabits (from his own home and as a working class boy in the ministry).
My favourite character, though, is W H Rivers. Rivers was a great man. he developed more sensitive techniques to treat those suffering form shell shock, and his work at Craiglockhart was of tremendous importance. In the novels, his quandary in having to cure those damaged by war to send back to the front, to the root of their injury, is brought into sharp focus. This novel sketches in more of Rivers background (pyschological and emotional).
There is much haunting imagery in Barker's novel. The central image of the eye in the door - the eyehole in a prison door where the prisoner is kept in solitary confinement - is wonderfully drawn, permeating the dreams of Prior. The imagery of those kept in solitary confinement for their objection to the war will live long with me.
Barker is also a fine convincing writer of dialogue.
This novel is highly recommended. Although, it can be read as a stand alone novel, I think its impact is heightened when Regeneration has been read.
5.0 out of 5 stars Historical novel: universal, timeless truth and illusion,
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I have read Regeneration, Ghost Road and The Eye in the Door. I was struck by the passages in The Eye which described the process of regeneration. Learning to discern the source of pain, emotional or physical, and dealing with it consciously or through our dreams, are deeper lessons to be found in these historical novels. Integrating cerebral and emotional responses is a endeavor that we should each pursue. This fiction does in fact provide the reader, along with Dr. Rivers, with a vocabulary to address our duality whether it be in the context of World Was I or Vietnam or our daily efforts to understand our deepest motivations, stimulii, responses and perceptions of life. Ironically, I was reading Estes' Women who run with the Wolves at the same time I was enjoying these novels. The novels by Pat Barker illustrated the concept of Descanos, marking our "deaths" and failures which halt our lives unexpectedly. Acceptance, integration and forgiveness are the ultimate goals once the source of our pain is identified. By understanding the lessons that Barker teaches in her novels, I understand that although the world may be falling to pieces outwardly, we can heal ourselves with the assistance of our patient teachers by looking calmly at the situation that causes us rage and sorrow, projecting ourselves into the future, and from that vantage point deciding what would make us feel proud of our past behavior, and then acting that way. Learn about our darker sides. Barker's historical approach illuminates our universal truths and illusions because in a broad sense the emotional and physical problems of Dr. Rivers and his patients are our problems today. Jennifer Stuller Nehrbas
5.0 out of 5 stars So very powerfu and intense,
Jan McGreger "janmcalex" (Humboldt, TN United States) - See all my reviews
I really believe that the most difficult task of any writer would be to write a historical novel, particularly one set during war years, that is fresh and void of cliche. In this regard, Pat Barker is truly amazing. Both "Regneration" and "The Eye in the Door" offer fresh voice and lack sentimentality..."Regeneration" and "The Eye in the Door" are intense and searchingly deep. Barker has written about psychological problems in terms a layman can grasp. She has written passionately of a war often over-shadowed by successive wars and of the pain and fear more comfortably white-washed by patriotism.
These books will engender fresh compassion for those veterans who have bravely fought wars abroad, witnessing and suffering untold horrors and for those who bravely fought at home by questioning the sanity of what politics demanded and were branded cowards for their beliefs.
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It is with great pleasure that I join you in marking African-American History Montha time to remember and reaffirm our common commitment to justice, equality and opportunity. Those of us serving in this remarkable institution whether military or civilianbear a special responsibility on occassions such as this. Indeed, we are fortunate to serve as both sentinels of the past and scouts for the future.
As sentinels of the past, we carry a unique understanding and appreciation for the lessons of historylessons that need repeatingof African-Americans who have worn this nation's uniform and served with distinction at home and abroad. As scouts for the future, we are also proud to inherit an institution that for over half a century has been a pioneer for equal opportunity and which today is a beacon to America as the most integrated institution in the nation.
Because we are an example to others, each of us also has a responsibility to each otherto ensure that our military and civilian ranks are defined by adherence to the highest standards of equal justice and professional ethics. In so doing, we can build an even stronger military and an even stronger nation. As the President reminds us in his proclamation on the purpose of this month, this is a time to teach our children, and all Americans, to rise above brutality and bigotry and to be champions of liberty, human dignity and equality.
As Secretary of Defense, I encourage everyone in this Department to embrace the spirit of which the President spoke. Together, we can remain a model for the nation. Together, we can make the meaning and lessons of this month real not only for African-Americans, but for all Americans.


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Looks like the kids have a great day with the snow ... I'd like one BIG storm before winter ends, but after that I'm ready for an early spring.
Mark ... amazing post.
Sorry to see Night Owl close up shop but as you point out it was inevitable in today's music environment.
Thanks for sharing the inside story and all the emotions pouring your heart and soul into the store brought forward.
Dryland is a great album ... for me Pureka is one of those artists that I love to have on a playlist but I have a hard time hearing 10 of her songs in a row.
Love her songwriting and her voice, nice job on the interview Heather ... sorry I missed her show.
An updated version of the story is now up with details on how each member of the city council voted.
"Councilors who voted yes on the proposed tax rates were James J. Ferrera III, Patrick J. Markey, Bud L. Williams, William T. Foley, Walsh and Mazza Moriarty.
Voting no were councilors Jose F. Tosado, Bruce W. Stebbins and (Timothy J.) Rooke."
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Thank you to everyone who commented and voted in the poll.
Here are the results through 1:30 p.m. this afternoon (Dec. 23):
Artificial tree: 97 votes
Real tree: 91 votes
No tree: 11 votes
I have to say I'm surprised artificial trees proved to be more popular, especially considering we're in the heart of New England.
G-Mack I'm not sure this is the hill you want to die on but I do think it's worth sticking up for tradition. Mabye there's hope yet ... I'll see if Becky and I can help steer Kristen back to the light when we get together. There's always next year to do things right.
Merry Christmas to all!
Great list ... a couple of other fun cost-effective solutions that I would throw out there include ice skating on Paradise Pond at Smith College and sledding at Hospital Hill in Northampton or Church Hill in Southampton ... I imagine people could list several other favorite area sledding hills.
Great news Cay ... have fun and good luck to Miriam.
I'd have to agree with Erik. The standards for what constitutes a Hall of Fame career in terms of total wins, starts, innings pitched etc. are going to have to change with the way the modern game is played.
Schilling may be the Jim Rice of pitchers. Dominant for a period of time, but the longevity isn't there. Does he deserve to get in? My money says yes, if only because I put a high premium on postseason performance and I'd rather have a guy who was great for 12-14 years instead of a guy who was simply good for 20 years.
Congrats to Pat Donnelly, it's always great to see a WMass kid make good, and it's hard to beat playing D1 football and the academics of Brown.
I only wish he had picked my alma mater, Holy Cross ... it would have been fun to see Pat play for the Crusaders and he could have followed in the footsteps of some great quarterbacks including Tom Ciaccio and Jeff Wiley from my days in school.
My initial review is there is certainly a degredation in the overall image quality in the "stabilized" version but the smoothing out of the delivery is great.
As for the kid she rocks the house.
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Great stuff Laura, your Dad would be very proud to read these words and as everyone has said he sounds like a terrific guy. For me life is all about passion and your father sounds like a guy who was passionate about his family, took pride in his work and left an indelible mark on those he touched.
Thanks for the catch RobertGoulet ... making the edit now.
If you haven't watched Dan's wedding video with Sam the Minuteman crashing the party I implore you (and all Sox Monster readers) to do so at your earliest convenience.
I am surprised the team decided to go with Buchholz in Game 3 over Dice-K considering how each of them finished the season. I was expecting Buchholz to make yesterday's game a statement game and prove he was the 'man' for the Game 3 start, but instead he went out and bombed for the second straight outing.
Pitching wins in October, so hopefully Beckett and Buchholz get things figured out in their side sessions.
The good news is the Angels' pitching does not intimidate ... I can see Boston putting up some decent run totals against Lackey, Saunders and company.
Tough break for an incredible talent and a great person. It's great to hear she has the support of someone like Barron, who experienced the same disappointment first-hand.
Hurry back, Bilqis.
I think the possibility of the Angels running wild once they get on the bases worries me the most. I have awful flashbacks to the Carl Crawford six steal game, the Yankees running at will, etc. If Figgins and Abreu can get on they can cause major problems.
The Sox should have the psychological advantage and if they can win Game 1 with Lester they will be in good shape.
It promises to get worse from here since Bucknor will be the home plate umpire tonight for Beckett's start.
On the plus side there figures to be some fireworks with the combination of Bucknor's horrible umpiring and Beckett's temper.
Sox need a big game from Beckett, obviously, but it would be terrific if the offense showed up. Big Papi may have had a good second half and finished with good power numbers but there are way too many holes in his swing right now. Ellsbury was pouding the ball into the ground and making easy outs too.
The Angels were due to play a solid playoff game against the Sox. Now we get to see how the Sox will respond.
The Drew name does not exactly engender warm and fuzzy thoughts for Sox fans but a trade for Stephen Drew seems to make the most sense from the choices outlined above.
Put me in the camp who sees Scutaro as an overprice option. I'd hate to have to commit to three years on a guy like that. Maybe he suddenly figured it out last year but chances are that was his career year and it's only downhill from here.
Alex Gonzalez at one year at least buys time for Theo to figure out this mess and his glove makes a huge difference for the pitchers. I would not be opposed to handing him $6 million. It also buys time for the Sox to see if they actually have anything in Lowrie.
Thanks Kyle ... I have to say the Mars song has an irresistible beat. I try to keep it simple when picking songs. If I find myself cranking the volume when it plays, or searching for it again online after hearing it in the car, that's good enough for me.
Slamming poor Charlie with the Plain White T's comparison.
The Sox absolutely need a big bat in the middle of the lineup and if they can find a way to swing a deal for Gonzalez that would be huge.
If Hoyer does get the job I can see this happening ... whether we look back on it and say the Sox got the best of the deal or not time will tell, but it's nearly a necessity at this point. Bowden I would give up in a heartbeat, not because he didn't pitch well at the end of the season, but simply because the Sox can only have so many young guns in the rotation and he seems to be the odd man out.
What else would it take? I'd be curious to find out. As long as it's not Bard or Buchholz it would seem to be a no-brainer.


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Pretty Little Liars Season 3, Episode 7 Review: What Did You Think of the Episode?
Pretty Little Liars is starting to get crazy, so it's appropriate that's exactly what Season 3, Episode 7: "Crazy" is called. Did the episode live up to its title? Read on for Wetpaint Entertainment's review of the episode, and then rate it yourself.
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Wow. Wow. This episode started slow, but the second half kicked into high gear, resulting in one of the creepiest PLL experiences this season.
This episode threw a lot at us. A lot.
First, there's CeCe, Alison's (Sasha Pieterse) old friend (and Jason's [Drew Van Acker] ex), who's just as manipulative and domineering as Ali ever was. We're not entirely sure what her story is, but we're intrigued to learn more.
Then there's Nate, who we still don't trust. His interest in Jenna (Tammin Sursok) seems genuine, but we didn't miss the way he suspiciously knows about the earrings Emily (Shay Mitchell) bought Maya (Bianca Lawson) only a few days before her death. How did he know that?
And let's not forget about Jason (Drew Van Acker) who gets drunk, crashes his car, and then rambles about being locked up in jail with Garrett (Yani Gellman) so that justice can finally be done. Um … what? We love that Spencer [Troian Bellisario] takes charge of the situation and gets her half bro out of trouble, though we imagine her new lies will come back to bite her down the line.
And, most importantly, there's Hanna (Ashley Benson), Aria (Lucy Hale), and Mona's (Janel Parrish) story, which is as chilling as anything that has ever been on the show. Wilden (Bryce Johnson) thinks Hanna's blood is on the anklet, and in an attempt to find out if Hanna is being framed, Aria goes to Mona and confronts her in an excellent and well acted scene. Surprise, surprise: Mona is deeply unhelpful.
So then Aria and Hanna break into the insane asylum. In a sequence straight out of a horror film, Mona distracts Aria and Hanna, escapes from her room, and then goes to play with dolls, sing-songing what seems like nonsense until the girls are forced to flee.
But, as Hanna realizes, Mona's songs weren't nonsense, they were a code. She said "Not Safe," and then sent the Liars to a website about Maya, which needs a password.
And that's not all. One Mona phrase the Liars didn't decipher is "Miss Aria you're a killer, not Ezra's wife." Which, if you take each first letter, spells M-A-Y-A K-N-E-W. So, yeah. Think about that all night. We sure will.
Overall, we loved this episode. It's exactly what we want PLL to be: Surprising, chilling, scary, with a dash of humor and romance to lighten the mood. 4.5 stars!
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Mekk is the brainchild of Mark Edwards (ME) and Ken Knight (KK), a pair of Brits with extensive experience in high-performance cycling at both the racing and production end of the spectrum, and they've delivered a tour de force bike worthy of the legacy of Milan-San Remo's iconic Poggio ascent.
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i got my MEKK Poggio 3.5 back in August and have been riding it for the last two months. I love it. It is fast and responsive. The electronic shifting is very smooth, even when shifting on load. The tri colour paint scheme gets a lot of compliments.Shimano R30 wheels are OK. MEKK brakes and crank do a fine job. i did change the alloy seat post to a carbon post to complete the aesthetics. The bike came well packed. Very little assembly; attach handlebars and seat post and install front wheel. Gears were already tuned.This price is incredible. Compare similar level bikes. This bike is a big step up from the alloy carbon frame i have been riding for the last 3 years. I would have no trouble recommending this bike to a friend. Not 5 stars because package does not include full Ultegra group set.
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I got my MEKK back in August. I am very happy. The electronic shifting is very smooth, even on load and trouble free. Bike came tuned out of the box. Assembly was minor as stated in other review. It took 45" to set up and install pedals. (Not included) I did immediately throw a new seat on and replaced the seat tube. The one on the bike is alloy and I wanted full carbon set up. Brakes and crank, although not Ultegra work fine. Not planning on swapping them out. Wheels; Shimano R30s are fine and compatible with a bike at this level. AT THIS PRICE It leaves you room to come back to Nashbar to shop for up grades later. I do get lots of compliments on colour scheme. I'm not big on the Matt black that is all the rage this year. Good bike. Great price.
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I bought this bike during the summer. It arrived & was set-up w/no problem. However we (avid son cyclist & engineer) could not getthe Shimano Ultegra Di2 to shift properly. It would miss rear gearteeth & jump from one gear to another. If this problem hadn't occurred I would have kept it. It was a good value !
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The bike is fabulously light, and the Di2 shifting is something that you'll wonder how you lived without it. Also the Gulf Oil colors are absolutely striking, if you like being noticed this is the bike for you.The bike came packed well (a good thing since the box itself apparently took some bumps) and was well protected. Assembly consists of putting the wheels on, seat, handlebars, and Di2 battery (needed to be charged first). The wheels were true, brakes were dialed in, and the shifting was perfect out of the gate. My friend who has worked at bike shops was very impressed as to the level this bike came assembled.MEKK keeps the price down by not having the full Ultegra component set. The crank is a rebadged SRAM, but is still very good and unless you're a very serious rider I don't think you'd know the difference.All in all a great bike for the price, you won't regret it.
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Now this is an Annika look! Solange created drama with her hair, and even though the top doesn't show cleavage, it has interesting detail. That Peter Pan collar is really sweet too. I'm also a sucker for well tailored shorts that show off legs and hot shoes.