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Heraldry

Or Saying What You Mean and Wearing It Too Although our modern-day yearning for heraldry is now mostly limited to brand-name endorsement (and to being different, just like everybody else), there is something curiously appealing about becoming a willing and walking...

A Letter from Xipangu

Or: Thoughts From Afar, Thoughts Close to Home In the early morning of October 12, 1492, Columbus stepped ashore on the low beach of Samana Cay in the New World. (Or any one of a dozen other locations in the Caribbean, all ardently defended by their partisans, take...

Live on Line

I think microphones are to most people what lures are to fish… terribly hard to resist… The following mp3 file was recorded at the press conference for the exhibition in Tokyo on Tuesday February 28th 2006. Go to: http://englishzone.seesaa.net/article/14496154.html...