As I read daily about what is supposed to be health care reform I despair. It seems that nothing good is coming from the efforts of Congress to reform our present system. It seems rather that whatever happens is going to be more of our present costly and inefficient model, representing the powerful interests of [...]
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July 11, 2009Paris Walk
March 7, 2009It’s still cold in Paris, but bundled up we still do a lot of walking. Today it was lunch at home and then a walk across the Seine with Notre Dame on our left, stopping at a little café on l’île Saint-Louis before reaching the Saint Paul Metro station and from there taking la rue [...]
Paris Walk
February 21, 2009Today, we walked down la rue Bonaparte from the Jardin du Luxembourg and stopped before the Fontaine in la Place St. Sulpice. “L’église Saint-Sulpice,” a Google search tells us,” est l’un des lieux de l’action du roman Da Vinci Code, qui fait passer à tort le méridien de Paris par le gnomon et l’obélisque.” and [...]
Plus il lisait…
December 31, 2008« Plus il lisait, plus Thomas s’effarait de s’apercevoir qu’il n’avait fait qu’effleurer le sujet jusqu’à présent. Alors quadruplait sa vitesse de lecture, accumulait les articles les plus passionnants dans ses tiroirs, dans des mallettes soigneusement étiquetées, sous son lit ; et quand ses yeux accrochaient un titre extraordinaire, il interrompait ses découpes, lisant en [...]