I saw that Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is now on Amazon Prime, and that got me to thinking about how the only reason to watch that film is to see Rebecca Ferguson, a Swedish-British actress you may not know, steal the entire thing from the likes of Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, and […]
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In October of 1839 a 30-year-old amateur photographer and chemist named Robert Cornelius set up his camera outside, close to his family’s lighting fixture store in Philadelphia. He removed the lens cap, ran over and sat in front of the camera for about a minute, and then put the lens cap back. He had just
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My wife Jill and I recently saw Eddie Izzard’s “Force Majeure” show at the historic Beacon Theatre (a fantastic mishmash of faux Greek, Roman and Rococo design on the West Side of Manhattan). As I watched him tell his stories about Charles I and God and Julius Caesar and dressage and Lord of the Rings and the
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The other day my wife and I were driving over to visit her father, and we had to stop at a CVS Pharmacy on the way. When Jill walked through the doors, the CVS app on her iPhone chimed, and welcomed her to the store. It also told her about unadvertised specials that were available. She
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The US handled the 2008 crisis as well as just about any country, including in the manufacturing field.
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Some best practices and lessons learned for the college lacrosse recruiting process.
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