Daily Archives: Thursday, January 31, 2002

On the way home last night, I attended a lecture in Vanderbilt’s new Martha Rivers Ingram Center for the Performing Arts by author and UCLA professor Jared Diamond, winner of a history Pulitzer for Guns, Germs & Steel. Diamond also … Continue reading →

I’ve attended only one Super Bowl. The Wall Street Journal today has an article about that very same Super Bowl. It’s a “where are they now” story about all the dot.com companies who ran advertisements during the game. Since I … Continue reading →

While working on a writing project regarding the State of the Union Address, I ran across this piece in today’s Wall Street Journal by Peggy Noonan, who wrote the book on what makes a good speech. Not surprisingly, the former … Continue reading →