Posted in Memory Lane, Music, People on Jul 3rd, 2007 Comments Off
Due to my having left the USA for Europe as early as I did, I never even heard her live, let alone meet her, but her death so comparatively young saddens me every bit as much as if I had. Out of the recesses of my memory comes an apparently characteristic story I read long ago [...]
Posted in Events, Memory Lane, People, Politics, Reflections on Jul 3rd, 2007 2 Comments »
The facts, folks – just the facts, as summarized by The New York Times: I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted March 6, 2007, of lying to F.B.I. agents and grand jurors investigating the unmasking of a C.I.A. operative amid a burning dispute over the [...]
Posted in Events, People, Politics on Jul 3rd, 2007 Comments Off
[Since our former Attorney General appeals directly for my help in propagating his message - and since I can perceive no violation of copyright or anything else along those lines - I herewith reproduce in toto an appeal from Ramsey Clark just received:] Dear Paul, I am writing to you with the hope that you [...]
Posted in People, Politics on Jul 2nd, 2007 2 Comments »
[In 1982, when I settled in San Francisco to spend what developed into the next thirteen years, the most beneficial things to happen to me included acquisition of a personal physician who over time became a cherished and esteemed personal friend. I'll leave him anonymous here, for in the interest of speed I haven't taken [...]
Posted in Memory Lane, Politics, Reflections on Jul 1st, 2007 Comments Off
Missouri-born Lucien Agniel, the first American I had the rare good fortune to meet when I arrived in Germany in 1951, worked for the United States Foreign Service in the Munich Press Office of the U.S. Land Commissioner’s office; six years after the end of World War II, Munich still had no Consulate proper in [...]
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