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Oct 5, 2007

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A beginner’s guide to collecting art

In my yet-to-read list is Confessions of an Art Addict, a memoir of the legendary heiress and art collector Peggy Guggenheim. That's right, of the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Bilbao in Spain. What follows, here, is a confessional, but with none of the glamour or...

Sep 28, 2007

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RE: ‘A dangerous and disturbing development’

Last week Comment selected a group of professors, students and colleagues to respond to an article by Dr. Anthony Kronman in the September 16, 2007 Boston Globe called, "Why are we here? Colleges ignore life's biggest questions, and we all pay the price". The...

Sep 21, 2007

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‘A dangerous and disturbing development’

In the September 16 2007 Boston Globe, Anthony Kronman—the Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University—writes, "In a shift of historic importance, America's college and universities have largely abandoned the idea that life's most important question is an appropriate...

Apr 20, 2007

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How Heraclitus taught me to read

His writings are fragments—like shards of pottery, or dinosaur bones. And they are a test of who can read best. Heraclitus will elude us until we get the crucial point. Matt Colvin holds a PhD in Classics from Cornell University and teaches classical languages and humanities a Mars Hill Academy.

Apr 5, 2007

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Contemporary trends in classical music

Classical music—that small corner of the record store—plays the past, present, and future in a hundred ways. Whether for nylon strings or CPUs, it is a thrilling and eclectic universe. John Wykoff is a Chancellor’s Fellow in music composition at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Mar 23, 2007

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Heroes, mentors and pioneers in Computer Technology

Heroes who innovate and create. Mentors who embody and mold. They exist in every field, and wait to impact every life. Comment starts a new series today in an appropriate field: computer technology. Dr. Derek Schuurman is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario.