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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2013): Dir: Joe and Anthony Russo. PG-13
This film is currently playing in theaters.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the sequel to Captain America: The First Avenger, and a semi-sequel to The Avengers. Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) returns as Captain America, along with Natasha Romanoff aka. Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) from The Avengers, a new friend Falcon (Anthony Mackie), and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). Captain America (who had awakened from decades of suspended animation), while still fighting bad guys with a sense of traditional American idealism, has to now face a world of subtler threats and difficult moral complexities. Right before Nick Fury, the leader of the government organization SHIELD, is shot by a mysterious soldier named The Winter Soldier, Fury tells Captain America that SHIELD has been subverted by its enemies and can no longer be trusted. Captain America and his friends, Black Widow and Falcon, are soon branded a traitor by SHIELD as they delve deeper into uncovering the conspiracy behind the organization.
To be honest, I didn't expect Captain America: The Winter Soldier to be anything new or even be all that good. Surprisingly, I found it to be the opposite in both accounts. It feels new, and it is quite great. I did not see the first Captain America: The First Avenger, but I did watch The Avengers, which I loved. The Avengers was particularly noteworthy for its complex juggling act of making all the characters equally interesting and fun while using witty banter, fun situations, and character chemistry to fill in for any possibility of boring-ness. The story itself wasn't overly complex (from what I recall) and there was mostly one main bad guy (Are you listening, Amazing Spider-Man?) with some flying, generic minions. Things were always happening (which could have become dull) yet there were plenty of unexpected moments (which made it not dull). The Winter Solider, on the other hand, is punctuated by both slow and fast-moving scenes, and just enough little twists in its complex, if convoluted (as comic book stories should be), plot, taking things more seriously than expected in an action film. With that said, I found myself having to actually pay attention to the story to keep up with everything.
The Winter Soldier feels very much like a sequel, of sorts, of The Avengers, a continuing, long story thread (with three of the characters returning from that movie) about SHIELD in general. Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury plays a substantial role here, and one may even call him the main character of this story if the film wasn't called Captain America. Samuel L. Jackson's serious (and quite action-packed, I might add) side is in full display here, and he does it really well. Chris Evans is particularly great in this film as Captain America, where he gets to display his full range as an actor. A nice, slow moment between him and an ex-sweetheart (who is now very old and sick) is particularly poignant. It is hard not to root for Captain America, an American idealist who is struggling with his ideals in an increasingly modern, cynical world. Scarlett Johansson is quite excellent as Black Widow, looking better, funnier, and more relevant than she was in Iron Man 2 and The Avengers. Anthony Mackie does quite well as Falcon, a soldier who can fly around in a metallic, winged suit--the only downside is perhaps the fact that it is not really explored in detail how his suit really works. Veteran actor Robert Redford adds a good amount of gravitas as a governmental villain, Alexander Pierce.
The action scenes are surprisingly intense and extremely well-choreographed. If The Avengers action scenes felt like a comic book, the fighting scenes in this film is The Dark Knight style of hard-hitting, violent action. I was somewhat surprised by how violent it is (given its PG-13 rating) with all the intense gunplay and bone-cracking martial arts. Captain America's fighting style is very cool and flows really nicely like a very fun side-scrolling video game, making good use of his trademark shield, and bouncing off walls like an acrobat. Black Widow's bone-cracking martial arts moves are beautiful to watch. Nick Fury's car chase scene is first rate, with plenty of danger, bullets, and intense moments. Falcon's flying scenes definitely feels more like The Avengers and Iron Man style of action, which is still cool.
The political-thriller style storyline is interesting in how it's different from the usual comic book fluff, which usually involve external forces and aliens. There are touches of Watchman-influenced plot points. Interestingly, Captain America, as a representation of old school American liberty and idealism, appears to look at the increasingly surveillance-heavy, modern government and ideology with a bit of a critical eye, at a population that is increasingly looking for safety and "security" while willing to sacrifice freedoms in doing so. Yes, there are bad guys and good guys and people fighting, but Captain America reminds us that war is really more about the ideas behind these guys who are fighting.


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Drive north of Phoenix on 179N for a couple hours. Turn off onto 89A and you will find yourself in Sedona.
Sedona is a beautiful town of 14,000 people located near the entrance to Oak Creek Canyon. The rich red sandstone bluffs and spires back up to desert grasslands. Coyotes, mule deer, bobcats, black bears, javalinas and mountain lions roam freely here. This is a mixed conifer forest located in a transition zone. The few trees such as cottonwoods, pinon pine, junipers and sycamores are located near creeks. Sedona is the New Age capital of America. People say this because there is supposedly a mystical vortex swirling here. People come from all over the world to see Sedona.
Places to See in And Near Sedona
* Red Rock Crossing -This range of red rock is one of the most photographed places in Arizona. It has been painted by artists and has been in over 60 Hollywood movies. Located 7 miles southwest of Sedona it is at 4,000 feet. There are places to picnic and fish and water activities. It is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on US 89A.
* The Verde River - There is a lot to do along this river. Sedona Adventure tours will take you white water rafting. There is a 3 and a half hour Water to Wine tour that is exciting. First you raft up the river to the Alcantara Vineyards and go ashore where you will have a wonderful time tasting different wines. For more information call 877-673-3661
* Slide Rock State Park - A naturally formed rock slide that is made of slippery sandstone. The family will have hours of fun sliding down it and swimming in the clear water. This area used to be a 43 acre apple farm. In the fall people can come and pick apples from the 13 varities that grow here. There are two trails to walk on that are fairly easy. One circles the water areas while the other trail meanders among the trees. The park rangers offer a guided tour daily. Admission is $8.00 a car with 4 adults.There are 15 picnic areas and grills. The phone number is 928-282-3034.
Ways to Get Around in Sedona
* The Sedona Trolley - There are two narrated tours that drive people around the city.
* Pink Jeep Tours - Choose from tame sight seeing rides to more rugged edge of your seat adventures. Either way you will enjoy the red rocky terrain.
* Hummer Tours, ATV Rides and Vans - All of these are great ways to see Sedona.
Other ways to see the red rock desert is to take aerial tours, hot air balloon rides, helicopter tours and small planes. Ask at any of the gift shops and stores for an itinerary of these tours.
Spas and Resorts
* The Enchantment Resort and Spa - Beautiful rooms and great views. There are many things to do at this resort. From Cooking demonstrations to the Journey of tears exploration. There is a complete Native American program for adults that covers playing the Native flute, The Medicine Walk, and a walk to the Ruins. For the kids ages 4-12 there is Camp Coyote. In this camp counselors guide the children on nature walks, star gazing, sculpting pottery, painting, and several outdoor games.
* Sedona Rouge Hotel and Spa- Located near a creek and overlooking the red bluffs. This spa has a wonderful array of selections to choose from. 90 minute massages, a salt water pool, jacuzzi, yoga classes, a gym, and very close to shopping. There are also classes on photography, water colors, gardening, meditation, aqua classes, and astrology.
Festivals and Family Activities
* The International Film Festival - This festival is in February in Sedona.
* Jazz on the Rocks- Music festival in September in Sedona.
* Sedona Arts Festival - This festival is held in October.
* Fantasy of Lights - Every year a million lights light up Sedona from Thanksgiving until New Years Day.
There is also many hiking trails, swimming, camping, miniature golf, bowling, horseback riding, 4- wheeling, and fishing adventures to be experienced. Visit the two parks for children - Sunset and Posse Ground. There are also activities such as bocce ball, croquet, ping pong, putt putt golf, whirlpool spa, and mountain biking. Some seasonal attractions are Easter Egg hunts and parades. Do visit the Heritage museum for a living history presentation that is very memorable.
There are over 80 art galleries in Sedona to visit. See the hand made works of local artists in pottery, painting and silverwork. Or you can make something yourself at the Imagine Art classes given in Sedona.
If you are interested in Native American history visit the ruins and see petroglyphs at Palatki. Or visit Tuzigoot and Montezuma Castle. Participate in a real sweat lodge or visit ringing rocks.
Whatever your choices when you visit Sedona you will take away great experiences.

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Couples seeking a divorce in South Carolina may see time shortened after separation, Fox Carolina reported February 25.
South Carolina law now forces a couple to wait a year after being separated before they can obtain a no-fault divorce. Residents who file on the grounds of desertion, physical abuse or adultery can obtain a divorce after only 90 days.
The proposed amendment was voted on in the House Judiciary Committee today, asking the required separation for a no-fault divorce be reduced to five months.
Those on the committee are almost equally divided, with the amendment vote 12-11.
House Majority Leader Bruce Bannister is for the proposed amendment, stating it's more difficult for children to have to live with the stress created by parents who are divorcing. The one year law also causes the couple to lie about the time they've been legally separated.
Opponents believe South Carolina law should remain at one year because it gives the couple time to reconcile and work out their problems.
How do the readers here feel? Should a couple be required to wait a year before a no-fault divorce is granted? Should laws differ for divorcing couples when there are children involved. Please leave a comment below.


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This year has been big on the Clostridium difficile trouble in Montreal hospitals. Clostridium contamination is not a new problem for hospitals. Some years are easier then others, but keeping this bacteria out of health clinics and hospitals has been an ongoing struggle for decades. The infection occurs in the gastrointestinal tract, most commonly in the intestine or the colon. C. dificile is actually normally found in our gut, but after certain antibiotic treatments it can eradicating the normal body flora and producing high amounts of toxins. As a result, symptoms like bloating, colitis, diarrhea, and constipation appear. Some cases result in death.
Recently, Montreal's Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital has been mentioned in connection with a recent C. difficile outbreak. According to CBC news, in the past few months several patients died after contracting the bacteria. The hospital officials report that the outbreak is facilitated by overcrowding in the ER, improper sterilization, and increased numbers of elderly patients. This statement has raised some controversy, with patients becoming becoming concerned with the quality of the health care system and its ability to safely accommodate patients.
The hospital director states that the outbreak is well-managed and is not a crisis. The outbreak has been going on since the beginning of the year. The situation has been taken under control--the number of reported cases decreased by half since last month. The question remains: is our health care system prepared for such trials? As the Montreal aging population grows, the strain on the health system is exacerbated. If our hospitals find it hard to manage proper sanitation techniques right now, what can we expect in the future?
These are some of the questions that the government of Quebec, and indeed Canada on the whole, should be concerned with. The health care system questions are being raised, and are becoming increasingly important.


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America has become an equal opportunity country when it comes to human trafficking, the newest form of modern-day slavery, according to the FBI. So in our nation of approximately 317 million people, there are 27 million men, women and children who are the victims of this top criminal enterprise. To put that in clearer terms: one out of every 11 American-born individuals will be a victim of human trafficking in their lifetime.
On July 8, Fox News reported that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would be holding a hearing about how to combat the forced labor and modern-day slavery going on in this country. And don't think it is all about sex trafficking, because it is not, with many people being forced to work under conditions like the black slaves were forced to work in years ago.
But just as it took decades of despair and years of indifference before that situation was addressed, so to it appears that Americans are turning a blind eye to the enslavement of people in their midst today. Men, women and children are being forced to work in every sector of the U.S. economy, according to Fox, like poultry processing, farming, meat packaging and even domestic service, like this girl who talks about her domestic enslavement for MSNBC.
Out of concern for this growing trend that does not just limit itself to sexual trafficking of young girls or children, the U.S. State Department has released their 2014 Trafficking in Persons Report. And in an effort to get you on board with helping the government stop this form of human slavery, they are willing to give you a free copy via online download. You can also request a copy be mailed to you by sending your name, mailing address and the number of copies you want to this email address: firstname.lastname@example.com
But those fighting human trafficking don't want you to stop there, as they could use your help in getting legislation passed to help in that fight. For example, the House has already passed H.R. 3530, the Justice for Victims of Human Trafficking Act, but it has little chance of passing the Senate. And the Senate needs to hear from you about S1738, which they introduced in 2013, but which also has little chance of passing if they don't hear from their state's constituents about it.
America has a new enemy, one that is attacking her from within her own borders, and one that threatens the future of 27 million Americans every year, from children to adults. That threat is human trafficking, the modern-day slavery of choice for criminals. But the FBI, State Department and some members in the Congress are trying to fight this threat.
Will you do your part to help them? It starts by learning all you can about the problem, which is easier now that you know you can get that information for free at the links listed above. And it also includes reaching out to your House of Representatives leader or your state's senator, to let them know you want laws passed to deal with this issue.
And if you suspect human trafficking in your neighborhood or on your job, call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center at 1-888-373-7888. After all, all kinds of slavery are against the law, no matter what form it takes in 2014.


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INTRODUCTION; 2004; DOI: 10.1215/ed-32-introduction; CL 32: firstpage-32-xi-lastpage-32-xvii
This volume includes letters from October 1856 to the end of July 1857 and covers a period of major events: in the Carlyles' personal lives (particularly the death of Lady Ashburton), in Thomas Carlyle's life as a writer (the preparation of the first edition of Frederick and the preparation of the first collected edition of his works), and in the world of politics and international affairs, with the bombardment of Canton, the dissolution of Parliament, and the "Indian Mutiny." The volume also includes two appendices: the first traces the history of the publication of the cheap edition of TC's works through advertisements that appeared in the Athenaeum 1856–58; the second gives transcriptions of TC's marginalia on a copy of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh. Of the 168 letters, 132 are from TC and 36 from Jane Welsh Carlyle.1 That we have fewer letters by JWC is nothing new and is partly explained by the fact that fewer of them have survived.2 However, several of her letters in this volume are particularly long, especially those to Mary Russell, her own and her mother's old Thornhill friend.
The volume opens with the Carlyles at the end of a two-and-a-half month holiday in Scotland, much of which they spent apart. Their meeting at Scotsbrig, 1 October, was hardly an affectionate reunion, and their journey back to Chelsea together, 4 October, was also fraught. JWC told Mary Russell that TC arrived at Scotsbrig, "in what the people here call rsquo;a state of mind,'" and that she wished he had gone back to London with Lady Ashburton in the Ashburtons' railway carriage rather than accompany her, to whom "Providence" would have been a more agreeable protector (JWC to MR [6 Oct. 1856]).
The time in Scotland, for both of them, had been a poignant journey through the emotional and physical landscapes of their past. TC had been moved to tears by the sight of family graves at Ecclefechan and spent much time riding and exploring places of his youth. He, more than JWC, noticed and disliked the changes in the economy and the landscape, as he reported to his brother Alick in Canada: "Everything is now changed and changing with furious rapidity in this country,—principally owing to the railways I think. A great increase of luxury is coming over all ranks; … Jamie says, porridge will be out of use altogether in 20 years.—I cannot say I love these aspects of things" (TC to AC, 3 Oct. 1856). By the end of their stay, TC could not wait to get back to Chelsea: "[T]he day after tomorrow, we hope, if all go right, to reach Chelsea again, and get to something more profitable than touring" (TC to [KE?], 2 Oct. 1856).
As soon as they arrived TC was immediately back at work, while JWC continued to be deeply affected by Scotland. Much of the Scottish focus of this volume comes through her. Her regular correspondence with Mary Russell became more frequent. She wrote three long, affectionate letters in October alone, and more than a third of her letters overall are to Mary Russell. Her attachment to Scotland, with some reservations about the weather, is clear: "Scotland—dear dear Scotland! I could have found in my heart to lie down and take the ground in my arms, and kiss it, that morning I came away.—Only it was raining torrents!" (JWC to MR, [6 Oct. 1856]).
JWC's letters to Mary Russell are full of references to past acquaintances and events in Scotland. It is the place where her health improved. It was there that she could achieve the happiness and tranquility recommended by her London doctor long before (JWC to MR, 10 Oct. 1856). She returned to Scotland in July 1857 with the hope of once more gaining strength after a long illness. Although she was disappointed that her health did not improve as quickly as she expected and her morbid thoughts were not all dispelled, Scotland, friends associated with her childhood and youth seem to have become more real to her than Chelsea. While staying with the Donaldsons, she wrote: "[L]ife here is as good for me as any life could be—tho most people would wonde[r w]here the charm lay which [makes] me all day long as content as I can ever hope to be in this world" (JWC to TC, [12 July 1857]). Where in the past she had discouraged TC's searches for a home in Scotland (TC to JCA, 18 Dec. 1850), here she even recommends that they take lodgings in Aberlady: "I am sure I could make you comfortable there—and should feel heimlich [cosy] myself" [12 July 1857]. She then wrote from Haddington: "No where in the world that I know of are there such beautiful drives! and I recognise places that I had seen in my dreams!" (JWC to TC, 14 July 1857).
From October 1856 onward, back in Chelsea, their lives were dominated by Frederick, by preparations for the cheap edition of TC's works, and by JWC's health. As soon as she arrived in Cheyne Row she became ill and blamed TC for making her sit in "a violent draught all the journey." She painted a scene for Mary Russell of absolute misery: London fog, air like "liquid soot," TC at breakfast, sitting at one end of the table, looking "bilious," and she at the other, looking "half-dead." Yet the vigor with which she described her condition, TC's irritation, and the infestation of bugs that greeted their arrival in Cheyne Row (JWC to MR, [10 Oct. 1856]) is meant to make the reader feel her despair through a veil of amusement. The letter is an entertainment as much as anything else.
Throughout the winter, JWC's illness caused her lengthy bouts of insomnia, confined her to the house and, frequently, to her bed, leaving her weak and dispirited by the time summer 1857 came. Yet, in spite of her illness and low spirits, JWC never lost her fascination for her friends. She was still desirable company for Ellen Twisleton, who wrote to her sister, probably at the end of October, complaining of London parties where no one knew anyone else because the parties were "a perpetual entrance and exit. … [I]t is so impossible to make any mark on such a sea that there is no temptation to try"; she was refusing all engagements except with the Carlyles (Houghton 45M-98). Although no cup bearer to JWC, Twisleton's comments about her show the strength of JWC's ability to excite loyalty and affection in independent and intelligent younger women (see JWC to EDW, 15 Dec. 1856). Jewsbury, who sat sewing beside her (see JWC to MR, [6 Oct.] 1856), was concerned about her health too, but JWC was much less gracious toward her, complaining about her constant presence and insensitivity in the face of illness to Mary Russell and to Twisleton (see JWC to MR, [28 Nov.] 1856). But Jewsbury was an older friend with whom she had a many-layered relationship.
At the end of October 1856 Henry Larkin entered their lives. He had corresponded with TC for some years and was an admirer but not an acolyte. He offered TC his help in 1856 and was a frequent visitor at Cheyne Row. Writing in 1881, ostensibly to straighten the record after the publication of Reminiscences, he gave a picturesque description of what JWC was like during the period of this volume.3 He called her TC's "queenly wife"; on their first meeting, she greeted him kindly and "looked ill, and yet there was evidently something more depressing than mere bodily suffering" (32). However Larkin also described JWC's ability to charm. He was summoned to Cheyne Row in mid-February 1857 (TC to HL, 4 Feb. 1857), when, to his delight, JWC's health had improved:
She had been very kind before; but with a patiently hopeless look, like a mourner by an unclosed grave. But all this had now passed away. … [H]er face was illuminated with the brightest of welcomes. I never knew any one who could deal out little flatteries so pleasantly and judiciously. I have seen it administered by the spoonful … ; and even laid on … with a plasterer's trowel. But she knew better. She knew the sensitive points exactly; and if she choose, could touch them so delicately, that it almost seemed like a happy inadvertence; and she could also prick them with the deftest of needles, if she saw fit. (36–37)
By this time TC was deep in preparing new editions of his works for publication by Chapman & Hall. Larkin's work was mainly helping TC with corrections for this edition.
TC's ability to draw younger people to him was still evident during this period. Alexander Gilchrist had moved next door in order to be able to help him (see 31:207 -->TC to AGI, 2 Sept. 1865) and did so until his brother died in November 1856 (see TC to JCA, 7 Dec. 1856). Vernon Lushington, another young admirer, volunteered his help and worked with TC consistently throughout the publication of the cheap editions. In June 1857 Turgenev visited him, then wrote to a friend describing TC's curiosity about Russia and "his courage and originality." He did not agree with TC but obviously enjoyed his evening with him and JWC, saying that they were both "likeable and good soul[s]" (see TC to HT, 4 June 1857).
Neuberg continued to work on Frederick, along with the unfortunate Frederick Martin, who stole from TC and became a byword among the Carlyles' acquaintances for everything irritating. According to Espinasse, TC and Martin complained about each other. Martin was apparently paid very little and, out of that, was expected to pay his own fares when he went off to do research for TC (see TC to FEMA, 15 Oct. 1856). TC's attitude to Neuberg can still surprise; he gave Neuberg no acknowledgment and was crudely insulting behind his back, calling him "the Beauty" (TC to JWC, [27 July 1857]), a sarcastic reference to what the Carlyles considered to be his extreme ugliness (see JWC's Journal, 25 April 1856). To John Carlyle, he wrote that Neuberg "can attend to nothing but the sorrowful cares and gloomy confusions that now devolve on him" (TC to JAC, 2 Nov. 1856). This was not true. Neuberg's brother-in-law was dying, yet Neuberg stayed working on Frederick throughout, helped TC find a suitable horse, and ordered paper for him. In his letter to Neuberg, 29 October 1856, TC told him not to forget the ream of paper (see TC to JN, 29 Oct. 1856) and, on 18 May 1857, Neuberg wrote at the beginning of his letter answering queries on Frederick: "If you do not receive today a packet of Note-paper from Parkins & Gotto, please to let me know." TC wrote 15 letters to Neuberg during this period, all concerned with Frederick.
The publication of the Works as a series that could be collected into a complete Collected Works was clearly to do with Chapman & Hall's marketing strategy (see TC to VL, 5 Dec. 1856), but it meant a tremendous amount of work for TC, in spite of the help he was receiving. Of the letters he wrote during this period, more than a third were to Chapman & Hall, Lushington, Larkin, and Neuberg. All his letters to them were concerned with the publication of either the cheap edition of the Works or his new work Frederick. Most of his letters to his family and friends mentioned the continuous grind of preparation and proofreading. With JWC ill, Lady Ashburton abroad and ill, and the burden of his work, what comes across frequently in his letters is a feeling of isolation and disengagement. He relaxed by taking long rides on his horse Fritz, bought in November 1856. He often rode alone but was sometimes accompanied by, among others, Monckton Milnes, Robert Farie, or, after Lady Ashburton's death, Lord Ashburton.
The death of Lady Ashburton was a major event in both the Carlyles' lives. JWC was not unmoved by it, and this is shown in her letters. But it also made it possible for a change in the Carlyles' relationship, again shown in the letters, particularly those that JWC wrote to TC while she was in Scotland in July 1857. They have none of the edge of the letters of summer 1856 when the Carlyles were apart. They are more open, often more dependant, and more openly depressed than the previous summer's. The relationship is closer, TC is once more her best friend, "It is certainly a questionable privilege one's best friend enjoys: that of having all one's darkness rayed out on him! … to you I cannot for my life be anything but a bore!" (JWC to TC, [23 July] 1857). TC's responses were affectionate, as if to a frightened and sick child, telling her not to worry about expense or him, reassuring her about Nero and the canaries, and telling her that when Frederick was finished they would be more to each other than they had ever been, finishing the letter: "Whom else have I in the world?" (TC to JWC, 9 July 1857).
Although Lady Ashburton's death was presumably something of a relief for JWC, for TC it was the loss of a great friend. He told Neuberg that he had "had no such blow for a long while" (TC to JN, 7 May 1857). The depth of his sadness confused him; he found it difficult to remember the day of the funeral although he went to it on Tuesday, 12 May 1857. He told his brother it was on Monday (TC to JAC, 22 May 1857); in his journal, 11 May, he wrote that it was on Sunday, calling Lady Ashburton's death a "great and irreparable sorrow to me" (TC to JCA, 11 May 1857; Froude, Carlyle 4:186). Although he mentioned his grief only briefly in his letters and never stopped working, it is clear that however close his relationships with others, for TC there was never to be another friendship to take its place. For him it was the end of an era.
There are two interesting additions to the main content of letters in this volume: TC's close reading and marginal comments on two newly published books. The first was Hugh Miller's Testimony of the Rocks (Edinburgh, 1857), sent to him by Miller's widow, Lydia. TC liked Miller and was interested in his geology but found his creationist theories irrelevant. The reading of Miller's book, his comments on it, and his instruction to his nephew James Aitken (to whom he gave it) to take care of it were clearly pious acts in memory of a man who had taken his own life (see TC to LM, 15 April 1857). The second was Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh. TC's comments on this book were a good deal less pious. He was no lover of poetry, and his comments were, in the main, dismissive. However, in view of the influence TC had on Barrett Browning in general and Aurora Leigh in particular, they provide an interesting addendum to knowledge of TC's views on Barrett Browning's poetry (see TC's Comments on Aurora Leigh).
The background to this volume of the letters is one of great political and international turmoil, with which, at this period, the Carlyles made very little engagement. Their comments on political events were, in the main, not analytical. The Arrow affair (see TC to JCA, 5 March 1857) and the subsequent bombardment of Canton (which brought down the government and started a war that lasted nearly four years) were not mentioned in the letters. TC told his sister Jean that he could not "pretend to care one farthing" about the resulting general election. News of the rebellion in India, 10 May 1857, reached London at the end of June and was first reported in the Times, 27 June 1857. TC's first mention of it in his letters was in TC to JWC, 13 July 1857, the same day the Times reported that it was more than a local disturbance. Even the news of the massacres, received toward the end of July, was only mentioned in passing between writing about Nero and his page proofs (see TC to JWC, [25 July 1857]). JWC was more interested in morbidly reading pamphlets containing the love letters and trial in Edinburgh of Madeleine Smith, who had allegedly poisoned her lover (JWC to TC, [26 July 1857]), than she was in world events. It was not until she wrote of her meeting with Col. Hamilton Veitch that there was any mention of India: "He [Veitch] had just read the Indian news and said People generally would think it bad, rsquo;because Delhi was not alreadytaken and the mutineers already put down—The English being so conceited that they always thought they had nothing to do but walk up to a thing and it would fly before them—' But those who knew the country, he said would only be too thankful that Bombay and Madrass were still quiet" (JWC to TC, [30 July 1857]).
The Carlyles' lives were more circumscribed than previously during a large part of this period. TC was even unwilling to become involved in the National Portrait Gallery (see TC to LA, 9 March 1857) or the choice of a replacement for William Bodham Donne at the London Library (see TC to JAC, 21 March 1857). The burden of Frederick and the cheap edition seemed almost too much for him. It is surprising that he should have compounded the suffocating load of Frederick by agreeing to work on the cheap edition, given that, on his own admission (see Reminiscences 160), they were not in need of money. What remains impressive is the amount of work that went into each volume and the complexity of producing the new editions. This volume of letters also shows TC's infinite capacity for work and his single-mindedness, even in the face of the tragedy of Lady Ashburton's death.
JWC was ill and depressed for most of the period, and yet she still had the power to attract and to charm. Her letters to TC at the end of the volume were as open and frank about her feelings as her 1855–56 journal had been (see JWC's Journal). The death of Lady Ashburton had not lightened her heart but it had made TC her best friend once more. Interestingly she was uneasy about this. He was being as loving as he knew how, and yet his "soothing" note soothed her "the wrong way of the hair somehow! Makes me feel I had been making a Baby of myself and a fractious Baby" (JWC to TC, [26 July 1857]). This period of closeness might be short-lived in the face of many more years of work on Frederick, but it undoubtedly shows a dramatic change from the previous year and another facet of their deeply complicated and contradictory relationship.
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Ken Cleveland celebrated his 81st birthday with a gift to the community. He and his wife, Patti, announced their donation of $4 million to the Cleveland Clinic's Brunswick Family Health Center.
"You can't take it with you," Cleveland said after signing the check at presentation ceremonies at the health center Wednesday. "I hope we leave behind something good for the Cleveland Clinic and the residents of Brunswick."
Cleveland, a Hinckley Township resident and founder of Ken Cleveland Builders, has been known for his many commercial and residential developments throughout Medina County, including Medina, Brunswick and Hinckley.
Cleveland said making the donation to the local health care facility made sense.
Cleveland said he had bladder surgery at the Clinic's main campus and is now cancer free. He said he and Patti are grateful in many ways for the health care they've received through the Cleveland Clinic.
"They've done such a great job looking after us," he said.
Cleveland said his first building developments were in Brunswick and it seems fitting to give something back to the city that helped launch his career.
The money will go toward capital projects at the Brunswick health center, 3574 Center Road, including a $20 million renovation of the emergency room that will double the facility's size.
The Clinic has announced they would name the center in his honor.
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June 6, 2012
By Bill Ford
CARBONDALE, Ill. — Southern Illinois senior Jeneva McCall finished 10th in the discus at the NCAA Championships Wednesday, earning Second Team All-America honors in the event.
McCall posted her best mark of 177-04 on her second of three attempts in the event at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa. She was just six inches short of the ninth-place spot after three attempts, which would have earned her three more attempts to throw further.
The NCAA Championships are far from over for McCall, who was named the USTFCCCA Midwest Region Field Athlete of the Year earlier this week. She will compete for a national title in the hammer throw Thursday and in the shot put Friday. Also competing for the SIU track and field team Thursday will be freshman DeAnna Price in the hammer throw and junior Zach Dahleen in the 1,500-meter preliminaries.
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The Project Runway finale Thursday night revealed an upset when Gretchen Jones was chosen as Project Runway's Season 8 winner.
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Jones beat out fan favorite Mondo Guerra for the title of top designer, although the judges were torn. Host and judge Heidi Klum and guest judge Jessica Simpson favored Mondo Guerra's line, while judges Michael Kors and Nina Garcia loved Jones' collection. This finalist Andy south was the first to be eliminated in the Project Runway finale.
Gretchen Jones offered an earthy, bohemian vibe for her collection, while Mondo Guerra created a wackier, more fun aesthetic. In the end, the judges decided that Jones' line was more marketable.
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This Newcastle, England-based quintet comprises Paul Scooby Smith (13 March 1979, Billingham, Stockton on Tees, England; vocals), Duncan Lloyd (b. Derby, Derbyshire, England; guitar), Lukas Wooller (b. England; keyboards), Archis Tiku (b. 1977, Bombay, India; bass) and Tom English (b. Germany; drums). The band formed almost in the reverse of that order. Tiku and
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R&B artists the Del-Satins had few peers as practitioners of white doo-wop in the 60s. They were formed in 1958 in Manhattan, New York, USA, by Stan Ziska (lead), Fred Ferrara (baritone), his brother Tom Ferrara (bass), Leslie Cauchi (first tenor) and Bobby Fiela (second tenor). The Del-Satins was chosen as their name in open tribute to their principal influences, the Dells
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Sun Valley Update: Is the Internet TV Market Up for Grabs?
Despite serious interest from Apple and Google, the market of Internet-connected televisions is still up for grabs, said former chief executive of Sling Media Blake Krikorian in an interview Wednesday.
Speaking on the sidelines of the Allen & Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Mr. Krikorian said television manufacturers like Sony and Samsung have an opportunity to band together to compete with companies that are developing ways to blend traditional cable programming with Internet content.
Mr. Krikorian expressed deep skepticism that Google, in particular, could dominate the market of piping digital television and other Internet content into consumers' living rooms. It is also an open question, he said, whether Apple, whose Apple TV software he praised, can take a lead in the space, or whether cable companies or even TV manufacturers have an opportunity to step in.
Mr. Kirkorian was a central player in the first wave of attempts to connect the Internet and television, founding Sling Media, which makes it possible for users to watch content from their home TVs on mobile phones and computers. He sold Sling Media to EchoStar in 2007 but has continued to advise a number of small and large companies in the digital-media industry.
His comments come as Google is mounting an ambitious attempt to change the way consumers watch TV, joining Apple and other companies that are developing new ways to watch online and, in some cases, traditional TV content on TVs and other software for the living room.
The Mountain View, Calif., search giant earlier this year announced Google TV, which allows consumers to watch and search traditional television programming and online video through one interface. The software, which will be available through a separate box or through some Internet connected TVs made by Sony, is due to launch this fall.
'Where is the pricepoint and the launch date?" said Mr. Krikorian. "Google has great technical skills" he said, but it hasn't proved it can "connect with consumers emotionally." Television is "not just a search box and it is not an algorithm."
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, who is also at Sun Valley, said he didn't want to comment.
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How Sun inspires employee volunteerism
By lskrocki on Mar 06, 2007
Mary wrote a great article for WorldWIT that comprehensively summarizes Sun's approach to supporting and inspiring philanthropic activies by employees.
Because of Sun's commitment to giving back to the community,
Because of Sun's commitment to giving back to the community,
- I have had the oppportunity to be a volunteer librarian at my child's school a couple hours a week for the last several years
- I coordinated a book drive at Sun that resulted in more than 2,000 books being donated to a local, public elementary school
- My family was able to partake in sorting and shipping donated medical supplies to some of the poorest regions in the world via Project C.U.R.E
- My extended family is able to easily contribute to local organziations in need of food and clothing for the poor
- I'm able to easily donate cash to my favorite charities and Sun matches my contributions
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Marginal product is an economics term used to describe the additional output that is produced by one more unit of an input. In other words, how does the last unit effect the total product. Marginal product is an important concept used to analyze short-run production. You can calculate marginal product by dividing the change in the total product by the change in the variable input.
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The University of Virginia is now developing an educational tool to model the complex and interdependent Chesapeake Bay watershed system. The U.Va. Bay Game will give students the opportunity to play critical roles in a simulation focused on the real-world goal of saving the Bay.


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The Prince Becomes A King
Though a bit lacking in the "big single round" performance that we have seen in recent years (Josh Hamilton last year being the best example), this iteration of the annual appetizer to the Midsummer Classic, the Home Run Derby, was still fun to watch. Of course, I was pulling for Joe Mauer, and (though not making it out of the first round), he gave a decent showing. Had he just been able to crank a few more out in that "bat-off" he could have really put the pressure on Albert Pujols. Oh well…Joe will continue his quest for the AL batting crown, while Pujols will go back to the NL and chase the Triple Crown.
My pick to win the thing, Carlos Pena, didn't make it out of the first round. Yep, that turned out well.
All in all, though, Prince Fielder did put on the best show of the night, as he bombed countless baseballs into the St. Louis night, at least two of which I remember seeing traveled 500+ feet. He is the absolute antithesis of Joe Mauer. While Joe has that sweet swing that hitting coaches dream of, Fielder gets in the box and swings with all his might all the time. What makes it work, though, is that he has enough bat control (the guy must have wrists made of iron) to get away with that approach. Of course, having this guy as your dad can't hurt…
(I doubt Big Cecil was a vegetarian!)
Preview (All-Star Game): Roy Halladay (10-3, 2.85) will take the hill for the AL to open the game, followed by Tim Lincecum (10-2, 2.33) in the Senior Circuit. I would expect to see Dan Haren and Johan Santana to follow Lincecum, while the AL has more options (Josh Beckett, Zack Grienke, Mark Buerhle, Felix Hernandez) after Doc.
Although I will be root root rooting for the AL to win the game, I just have a feeling that the NL is finally going to break through this year. I never like to underestimate Ichiro in an All-Star game, but I would be suprised if Albert Pujols DOESN'T do something spectacular at the plate or be involved in some form of late-inning heroics.
My All-Star Ballot (NL & AL)
When I was younger, voting for the annual Midsummer Classic was more of a science to me than anything. I would pore over the stats to try and determine who, categorically, was having the best season and vote for them above all other alliegences. In recent years, however, I have come to take a different approach: Just vote for the guys who I want to see in the game (within reason, of course!). Sure, the game actually "counts" now in terms of World Series home-field advantage, but at its core it still is really just a fantastic exhibition event that the fans love…the meaningfullness is only to keep the players interested.
That being said, here are what my current AL & NL All-Star ballots currently look like (barring any severe injuries or horrific slumps during the following month):
American League
C: Joe Mauer
1B: Justin Morneau
2B: Dustin Pedroia
3B: Evan Longoria
SS: Derek Jeter
OF: Carl Crawford, Ichiro Suzuki, Denard Span (Write-In)
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C: Brian McCann
1B: Albert Pujols
2B: Chase Utley
3B: Ryan Zimmerman
SS: Jose Reyes
OF: Ryan Braun, Raul Ibanez, Justin Upton
Also, if I had to pick the starting pitchers for each team right now, I would go with Roy "Doc" Halladay for the Americans and Johan Santana for the Nationals.
What the Hill?
The above picture pretty much perfectly describes Scott Baker's first start of the season last night, as he gave up four home runs through the first four innings and didn't even come out for the fifth frame.
The Twins actually took a quick 2-0 first inning lead in the contest, but it was all downhill from that point, as Scott Richmond and company quieted our bats (as if that is all that difficult so far this year) for the rest of the way.
That's pretty much all in terms of game summary…a complete breakdown in every aspect of the game.
-Let's just hope that Baker was off because he hasn't pitched in awhile, not because he's going back to the "can't throw strikes" Scotty-Boy of a few seasons ago.
-The Luis Ayala/R.A. Dickey experiment, just a week into it's existence, has proven to be a complete failure. Yet, Duensing was the one sent down to the minors when Baker came off the DL…grrr.
Preview (4-6, 4th, 1.5 GB DET and KCR): Roy Halladay (2-0, 3.86) vs. Francisco Liriano (0-2, 6.94). By all accounts Halladay should shut us down tonight, but he does throw the ball with his right (not left) hand, so at least we have a shot.


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On Tuesday, the much-anticipated announcement of star Michigan State sophomore Gary Harris was made: Harris will leave the program and enter the 2014 NBA Draft.
The 6-foot-4 star player averaged 16.7 points and four rebounds per game this past season and was quite a force during the regular season, though he slumped at times during the NCAA tournament. The decision comes as no surprise, as even his head coach at MSU in Tom Izzo suggested that the young phenom should enter this year's draft.
"Not only do I fully support and celebrate Gary's decision, but after my information gathering process, I recommend it," Izzo said in a statement released by the school. "I expect Gary to be a high pick in the draft, but more importantly, I know that he is well-prepared for a long career."
Harris entertained the thought last year of leaving Michigan State after his freshman season, though he ultimately ended up returning to the team for his sophomore year. Superstar Adreian Payne and Keith Appling, both now-seniors, also returned alongside Harris for their final seasons and will now enter the draft with Harris.
Losing Harris is bad enough, but the loss of Payne is critical, though nothing could really be done about the senior's time running out with MSU. Appling's presence will be missed, as well, but Izzo clearly has a plan to return to form demonstrated by his encouraging Harris to enter the draft with the departing seniors.
It is no surprise that Harris ultimately made the decision to leave school early, as he is considered one of the top shooting guards available in the June 27 draft and is very likely to be taken within the Top 20 picks, according to sources within the NBA. Izzo has said in the past that if his young players can become a high first-round pick, he's always for their leaving early and making a successful and lucrative NBA career.
"The last two years have been the best of my life, but it's time to follow my dream and declare for the NBA Draft," said Harris in his statement.
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I live in a fairly small townhouse, and storage space can be a problem. (Actually, storage space seems to be a problem for everyone I know, wherever they live. We humans just collect a lot of stuff.) The current issue of Natural Home gave me some great ideas for keeping my stuff organized while reusing items that might otherwise end up in the trash.
Perhaps what plagues me most are the magazines that pile up—in my office, my bedroom and even in the bathroom! So I started my spring cleaning and organizing by making these great magazine holders out of old cereal boxes.
I'm not the craftiest person on the planet, but this project was super easy—just the way I like it. All I had to do was cut away part of a vertical side, and the boxes stay strong enough to hold several magazines. My daughter helped me make them pretty, decorating them with old magazine and newspaper cut-outs and her own unique artistry.
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You are looking into the beautiful face of a heartbroken senior who must find placement today, March 15.
Bella (A22227315), an unaltered Chocolate Lab/pit mix, is between 10-15 years old. Her former owner, suffering from health problems, surrendered her to Animal Care and Control Team (ACCT) in Philly, when other family members could not help care for her.
Bella is understandably terrified, and urgently needs networking in order to be saved, which unfortunately is only today. She is described as still quite active and deserves to live out the rest of her days in the comforts of home.
We know how upsetting it is to share an animal with so little time to be saved. However, regardless of the amount of time she was given, we must try in hopes of finding someone willing to give her the chance to continue on with her life being loved, cared for, and happy again.
If you can open your heart and home to her, she is at ACCT, 111 W. Hunting Park Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19140. Adoption hours are10am-5pm. Foster Care hours are 9am-6pm.
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TC TO JEAN CARLYLE; 1 February 1831; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18310201-TC-JCA-01; CL 5:223-225.
Craigenputtoch, Tuesday Night. [1 February 1831]
My Dear Jane,
I have just finished a Letter to our Mother; but must not let the Parcel go without a word for you, to whom indeed some of my chief commissions must be directed.
We were very much obliged by your punctual tidings about my Father, concerning whom we are still very anxious, and not without hopes of hearing something tomorrow. Alick saw Pate Easton1 last Wednesday, but could get no nearer tidings. It was very kind of you, my lassie, since there was no other to write, that you took that trouble: I have only to beg and enjoin you to repeat it regularly and often. Tell us especially how our Father is (there are no remedies for Cold but "flannel and physic"), whether our Mother keeps stout, and all that goes on amongst you.
The day before yesterday Alick and I saw you (after a sort): we went to the top of Darngarroch hill (the hill that lies over Blackmark Moor), and there, the day being very bright, saw far and wide. New-Galloway, Kirkcudbright, Castle-Douglas: Burnswark was as plain as need be; and of course Scotsbrig could not be far. You seemed to have more snow than we, for indeed all our hills were black: however, since then we have had our turn; yesterday was a deliberate slow persevering day of snow-showers; and this day has been quite an adventure that way. A fierce frosty wind is drifting all into heaps: our kitchen door which has not been opened stands sunk half way up in a boiling [? drift;]2 all day it has whirled and heaped itself about this (the Library) window; and we have kept up a constant fire against Frost ourselves and every thing else under strict lock and key. To complete the matter our Maid went away on Sabbathday to see her friends, and how the foolish creature is to get up again (unless in Alick's bacon-carts) I see not. However, I have foddered and watered the cattle; to the very Hens, to so many of them as I could entice down, I have given malt (of which we had a little pot): I wheeled fuel and water round in abundance; Jane has been cooking all day within doors; and I have smoked and read. The wind still howls and whistles; but we hope it will abate tomorrow. This surely will be the last storm of the season.
We thought Jamie would have come up in the frost; but suppose he cannot get away. Tell him that with regard to the Meal there is no hurry: Mrs Welsh has sent us a sack of very good stuff, so that ten stone more will keep us I know not how long. Tell Jamie, however, to bring us a couple of bushels of good horse-corn instead when he comes. I want a little stock for summer and know not where or how to buy it here.
You tell me, my dear Jean, that you are more solitary now: indeed your position has greatly altered within the last year, and you now, young as you are, have to take a kind of front rank.3 Study my dear Sister to acquit yourself well in it. There, as in all scenes of life, you will find that from your own judgement, and your own conscience the best help must be sought. For our Margaret who sleeps now in her silent rest it is vain to mourn: I think of her daily, hourly, not in sorrow so much as in awe and love; and trust the Almighty may one day restore her to us, and us to her, in some holier world than this: nay who knows but she may even now in some inscrutably mysterious way be near us: we are spirits as well as she, and God is round us and in us, Here as well as Yonder! Let us not weep for her, but try rather to honour her memory by imitating the good that made her dear to us. Cultivate that quiet purity of heart, that silent justness and firmness of resolve that we saw in her; be wise and meek [and hum]ble as she was. In some points, I shall hardly see her like again. She had a fairness and loving tolerance in judging of her neighbours, which is perhaps of all virtues the rarest among women. Fewer idle words were perhaps spoken by scarcely any. The mind shone within her like a clear, modest lamp, enlightening all her goings: thus she could travel thro' her earthly course unspotted as few are, and now lies enshrined in all our hearts forever. God is great, God is good:4 if it is His Will we shall meet again, and part no more.
It is very gratifying to me, my dear Jean, to think that in several respects you resemble her that is away. One great virtue I have seen and often praised in you, that of Truth: nay I think if one could never tell a lie (to one's own heart, which is the worst to do), one had mastered the whole secret of virtue. Persist in what you see to be good and your duty; be patient, gentle, submissive even to ill usage: what are we that we should be well used? Did they use Jesus of Nazareth well? Above all, avoid vanity, self-conceit, Presumption of all sorts: want of Humility (which is a deep and glorious feeling could we see into it) is simply the want of all Religion, of all true Moral worth. I know this by the best of all teachers, Experience. Humility is no mean feeling, but the highest, and only high one; the denial of Self it is, and therein is the beginning of all that is truly generous and noble.— Be kind to every one, especially to our Father and Mother; one never repents kindness; a thousand times one does the want of it,—when repentance is too late.— Write to me with all freedom as to your Brother that loves you. Kindest remembrances to all and every one. God be with you
T. Carlyle


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Why do so many Americans believe that Saddam supported Al Qaeda when even the White House denies it? The prophecies of bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg offer clues.
By Chris Lehmann
It's hard to keep focused on the eager patter of a publicity agent when an enormous statue of the former head of the KGB is looming over his shoulder. But here I am in the upstairs foyer of the Washington, D.C., Spy Museum — a gadget-stuffed memorial to the Cold War heyday of espionage, run as a for-profit tourist destination by the same outfit that launched Cleveland's Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame — fielding pitches from local publicist Peter Robbio.
It's plenty disorienting just to see this famous statue of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, toppled in the final 1991 death throes of the Soviet Union, dangling from the ceiling like the novelty duck in Groucho Marx's vintage quiz show "You Bet Your Life." But the occasion for tonight's gathering supplies a whole new layer of bewilderment: a book party sponsored by the evangelical newsweekly magazine World for the publication of The Last Days, evangelical thriller author Joel C. Rosenberg's sequel to his 2001 blockbuster The Last Jihad. As the clutch of publishing and media hands, conservative policy advisers, and evangelicals continues to swarm outside the Venona Lounge, where the party proper is getting under way, it's hard to avoid the queasy sensation that the 20th century's gray and sanguinary clash of ideologies is morphing before my eyes into a 21st century battle royale of true believers.
Certainly no one here is discouraging this impression, least of all Robbio, a freelance publicist who represents a number of conservative religious authors. He ticks off the reasons behind Rosenberg's enormous appeal as I continue to keep a wary eye fixed on Comrade Dzerzhinsky. Rosenberg's book is a "fantastic" performer in Christian bookstores, Robbio tells me, but "we're beginning to see mainstream media" follow Rosenberg's work. (Indeed, just the week prior to the party, The New York Times ran an admiring profile of Rosenberg, stressing how his connections to the country's conservative Christian media world have proved instrumental to his novels' success.) But what ultimately will secure The Last Days a mass readership, Robbio says, are the book's universal themes: "the nature of evil and the battle between good and evil."
This is, among other things, a great conceptual leap forward for an author whose initial success owed much to a gruesome bit of marketing serendipity. Rosenberg's maiden novel, The Last Jihad, was released in the spring publishing season, just after the Sept. 11 attacks; by sheer coincidence, the novel (which Rosenberg completed well in advance of the Trade Center and Pentagon attacks) opened with a militant Islamic terrorist flying an airplane into a presidential motorcade. Thanks largely to its seemingly ripped-from-the-headlines plot and a lot of conventional political thriller mayhem, the book catapulted to the No. 4 spot on the New York Times bestseller list, and remained on the list for 11 weeks; now in paperback, it has sold more than 800,000 copies.
Even bigger things are planned for The Last Days. Tor-Forge (a specialty trade house that traditionally specializes in science fiction and military history) has ordered an initial print run of 180,000 for the title after paying Rosenberg a seven-figure advance. In the heat of its breakout success, it was easy for readers to overlook or simply breeze by much of The Last Jihad's theological agenda. Indeed, the author's faith commitment expressed itself somewhat clumsily via a strict edict forbidding his characters to curse — in one climactic confrontation with an Israeli security detail, lead character Jon Bennet, a special presidential adviser handling negotiations Middle East, lets loose with the inapposite ill wish "Forget you!"
The Last Days is nowhere near so reticent about the place of Christian belief — and most especially of biblical prophecy — in world affairs. From its opening set piece, in which another militant Islamic suicide bomber kills Yasser Arafat and the better part of an American diplomatic delegation to the Occupied Territories, the novel draws a confident series of lines between its better-intentioned characters and its evil ones, and gradually projects that same division onto the stage of world history. Near the end, Rosenberg has a key character (who is, in what is truly an amazing piece of spiritual undercover work, a covert Christian senior officer with the Mossad) chart the accelerating pace of calamities in the birthplace of biblical prophecies along a grid of quotations from prophecy foretelling everything from the downfall of Babylon (i.e., Iraq) to the second coming of Christ and the Last Judgment.
In this sense, the Spy Museum seems the perfect venue for the tangle of political, spiritual and marketing forces that lay behind Rosenberg's success. It was, after all, the pre-eminent Cold War theologian Reinhold Niebuhr who separated out the ideological battlefronts of his own day into the children of light and children of darkness — adopting in turn the terminology of the apostle Paul, who was also none too hesitant about grouping the world he was evangelizing into broad Manichean camps.
Yet it was Niebuhr himself who cautioned that every step along the path to seeming righteousness was beset with ironies out of the immediate sight of the pilgrim. It was also Niebuhr who famously cautioned that nation-states are, by the simple logic of their own recourse to mass manipulation and force, incapable of true moral action; that is, individual moral action that can best temper or counteract the immoral force of the state. Such nuances, however, have no place in the promotion of a thriller. Lest any of tonight's partygoers somehow miss the cosmic moral subtexts in The Last Days, the cutaway promo poster for the event features Rosenberg standing in the foreground of a vista of Mt. Megiddo in Jerusalem, the site where the battle of Armageddon is prophesied to take place in the Book of Revelation. (The portrait is a cover shot from party cosponsor World, which has published Rosenberg as a political columnist.)
As I follow tonight's crowd into the Venona reception room, I make the actual Rosenberg's acquaintance. He, like many in the party crowd, looks the part of an information age Washington insider, sporting a brown hound's tooth sportcoat over a stylish black sweater. And he looks the part because that is what he is, or what he was before his thriller series debuted. After voting for Dukakis in 1988, Rosenberg became an ardent evangelical conservative, working as a researcher for Rush Limbaugh and as a speechwriter for Steve Forbes and Benjamin Netanyahu. (One suspects that his covert Christian Mossad character is drawn from his own experience as a highly placed Christian among Netanyahu's advisers.)
Like his novels and lead characters, Rosenberg is quick to derive a moral lesson from the crush of world events. "It was not a failure of intelligence that allowed 9/11 to happen," he tells me, "but a failure of the imagination. . . .Let's pretend that the government was able to get incredible access to the mind of a suicide bomber. We do have people who've been captured, people arrested, but that's what we're missing. In many ways, it's a simpler psychological dimension. [The Sept. 11] terrorists thought they were heroes, they thought they would be getting seventy virgins in paradise."
Rosenberg's work — The Last Days in particular — indeed tries to get inside a suicide bomber's mind. But interior psychological isn't, as Rosenberg admits, his forte. "I'm not trying be John Steinbeck," he avers when reminded that critics have found his characters flat and especially so when they are villains. As a result, the added details he brings to his portrayals of evildoers are less qualities of the moral imagination than of the political exigencies of Bush foreign policy.
Rosenberg makes an explicit point of connecting every dot along the trajectory of Middle Eastern evildoing, dots that are much more tightly connected in the character of Iraqi suicide bomber Douad Juma than they ever were in Colin Powell's prewar case to the UN that the Iraqi terrorist threat was real and imminent. In The Last Jihad, too, the terrorists are Iraqi henchmen of Saddam, whose real-life aversion to militant Islamic observance is well-documented. "From the earliest days he could remember, he had been inspired by the Great Revolution led by Saddam and Yasser Arafat and the imams of his youth." Never mind that these figures occupy wildly disparate positions in the Middle East's political mythology and spiritual world — or indeed, that even in the logic of The Last Days' plot, that Douad is working for the same terror cabal that in the novel's opening pages arranged for Arafat's assassination. In Douad's — which is also to say Rosenberg's — mind, Saddam was "not simply . . . a good friend of the Palestinian people. . . . Saddam Hussein had given the Juma boys the chance to wage jihad against the Jews and against all Americans."
In other words, as is the case with the books that Rosenberg's series draws the most frequent comparisons to — Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins's 12-part blockbuster Left Behind series about the (highly speculative) interval of purgatorial human life on Earth between the Rapture and the last judgment — evil is less an attribute of individual human souls in torment than of monolithic world-historic delusion. It is quite literally, a cosmic miscalculation: People are evil in this fictional world because they possess the wrong sort of ardency, mistaking a self-evident path of destruction for a road to redemption.
And so it is with the forces aligned with the children of light. Like the Left Behind series, Rosenberg's books teem with a total, exuberant fascination with technological gadgetry; indeed, sophisticated military hardware does much more in The Last Days than propel the plot forward by dazzling quantum leaps. The high-tech arsenal of America serves for Jon Bennett — an agnostic former Wall Street investment wizard now using his boardroom savvy to negotiate the foundation for a new Israeli-Palestinian peace accord — as crucial and literal evidence that God is on his side. At one point, a new U.S. superweapon vaporizes a vehicle full of terrorists that had been closing in on the van in which Bennett, his evangelical love interest-cum-Secret Service superagent Erin McCoy, and a pair Middle Eastern dignitaries are taking flight from the scene of Arafat's assassination. Seeing the handiwork of this high-tech weaponry, Bennett stares at the smoking hulk that was moments ago a hot-pursuing Jeep of Evil, and thinks, "What had just happened? His enemies had been consumed by fire — but how? It was a miracle. That's all he could think of, and he didn't believe in miracles."
He will soon enough, of course, thanks to the ministrations of the athletic and sexy McCoy, the Revelation-minded Mossad agent and lots and lots of additional firepower. But if such evidence of divine intervention seems distressingly prosaic and shallow, it's ultimately Rosenberg's account of evil that ups the luridness quotient in his fiction, and one can't help but suspect, keeps readers coming back for more. But the evil half of Rosenberg's theodicy is, unfortunately, no more persuasive than the delivery of goodness in narrowly timed missile strikes. As Andrew Delbanco argued in his 1995 study The Death of Satan, most earlier evangelicals ofCalvinist descent understood evil as a crippling form of cosmic negation, bespeaking the withdrawal of divine grace from the believer's life. Thus evil was reckoned, like most things Calvinist, an occasion for intensive spiritual introspection, and for renewed efforts to conquer the self's blind presumptions and abject weaknesses.
The popular evangelical depiction of evil in works such as Last Days and The Left Behind series places the problem of evil most decisively outside the self, as an occasion for overt political and cultural confrontation. At the Spy Museum, as World editor Joel Belz steps before the party to introduce Rosenberg, we see this same logic in the familiar register of cultural warfare. "It's not easy to break through" to mainstream readerships if one is a writer of Rosenberg's convictions, Belz offers. "There are a lot of people who despise what Joel does and a lot who don't take him seriously. They want to say that 'These are just those people over there.' "
When Rosenberg addresses the crowd, he picks up the theme: "What's fascinating is what The New York Times did [in its profile of him]. The New York Times is just completely flummoxed by this." Likewise, Rosenberg notes that when the shop I work for, The Washington Post Book World, published a review deriding The Last Jihad as "a terrorist assault on the reader's brain," Rosenberg's publicity team "emailed that review across the country."
Just as such mainstream journalistic scorn is a badge of honor, so are the distressing course of world events an occasion for a certain evangelical assurance that the Bible and the history of the world are very much operating on the same page. In this context, evil serves as a sort of geopolitical proof text. "In this new novel I have one of my characters say 'To misunderstand the threat of evil is to be blindsided by it,' " Rosenberg tells the crowd. "The modern western secular mindset ignores and sets aside the fact that we are in a battle of evil. This war on terror we're in is a war on evil. To ignore evil is to set out on a road to genocide . . . .I believe there's evil in the world. This town too often misunderstands and denies it.. . . We live in strange times, and there are some who see it and some who don't."
It's this odd conjunction of worldliness and chosenness that you see not just in popular fictions in the evangelical register, but in American movement conservatism at large. I pick up the same mood of privileged knowledge mingled with strong resentment as I move among the crowd, overhearing one pair of partygoers discuss how al Qaeda recruits among Muslim militants in Bangkok "They match you up with someone and dye your hair blond…" and other "threats": "There are half a million illegal Chinese in the U.S. right now.")
And at one point, as I am talking with Rosenberg, GOP strategist Grover Norquist drops by to congratulate Rosenberg on the new novel. When I greet Norquist, he announces that things have never been better: "We're winning on all fronts." I gesture over to Rosenberg and offer the mock protest "But he thinks the end of the world is coming." At which point, Rosenberg mildly avers: "Not just yet."
Chris Lehmann is deputy editor of The Washington Post Book World and author of Revolt of the Masscult. This is the third of a three-part series on marketing God. Part 1: "The Medium is the Messiah"; Part 2: "Picturing The Passion"
UPDATE: Richard Bartholomew adds more signs of the times to the story. Peter Robbio, Rosenberg's publicist, ran Steve Forbes' campaign in 1999 until he was arrested for pulling a gun on someone in a restaurant. Before that, he worked for Pat Buchanan, around the same time Rosenberg was working for Netanyahu. Of course, this kind of things requires a movie: Madonna's former manager has bought the rights to The Last Days.