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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
I found the story about the 33 Chilean miners who survived underground for 56 days so inspiring that I gave the issue to my minister.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 07, 2014, 07:06:47 pm ---I found the story about the 33 Chilean miners who survived underground for 56 days so inspiring that I gave the issue to my minister.
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And I'm probably not even going to read that one. :-\
The only other article in that entire issue that interests me is, I want to see what Adam Gopnik has to say about the 9/11 memorial.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 07, 2014, 09:26:39 pm ---The only other article in that entire issue that interests me is, I want to see what Adam Gopnik has to say about the 9/11 memorial.
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I read Gopnik's article today. Actually, what interested me most was his discussion of the history of public memorials (e.g., the Shaw memorial, by Saint-Gaudens).
I cannot believe the museum has loops of victims' last phone calls playing for anyone and everyone to hear. To me that seems such an invasion of the privacy of both the deceased and the person to whom the call was made. I guess the museum must have the permission of the calls' recipients, though; I suppose that's where the recordings came from.
On a lighter note, I took a look at David Denby's movie reviews, and I got a kick out of his "Seven Horsemen of the Multiplex."
Jeff Wrangler:
I guess I might be reading that story about the miners after all. I'm out of stuff to read while I eat my lunch. :-\
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 09, 2014, 09:05:20 am ---I guess I might be reading that story about the miners after all. I'm out of stuff to read while I eat my lunch. :-\
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I thought it sounded kind of interesting -- not totally duty. Report back!
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