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Saturday, July 16, 2005



Having an affair? Maybe you'd like to send something from Cathy Gallagher's Secret Lover Collection of greeting cards - It's all about forbidden love: You don't have to be a murderer to write a murder mystery Adulterers need cards too A century ago, the original vagina monologuist, Sigmund Freud, threw up his hands and famously asked: What do women want? Do conservatives really know what all women want?

Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: How to Read a Book: Turning of Water into Wine
Reading requires remarkably little in the way of paraphernalia: a book, a source of light and maybe a pair of glasses

So what, other than our propensity for buying things we don't need, explains the success of the Levenger catalog? The founders of this purveyor of ''Tools for Serious Readers'' started off hawking halogen lamps out of their den 18 years ago and now sell fancy paper clips, elaborate note-taking systems and dapper leather goods — all designed ''for the productive enjoyment of reading, writing and working with ideas'' — via a 70-plus-page catalog and a ''flagship store'' in Delray Beach, Fla


• With that adorable little book light to guide my way, you can't help thinking, I just might be able to get through the complete Proust The parting of the Reading Sea [What, other than our propensity for buying things we don't need, explains the success of Levenger's catalog of Tools for Serious Readers? Turning reading glasses from a marker of aging to a marker of style ; ]
• · For the canny player life is a "game of poker." Since one can never be sure that the chips can be redeemed -redemption being a game for losers and suckers - the best strategy is to keep the game going as long as possible The Confidence Man ; Some of us can hold our tongues better than others but even the best of us will blurt out the truth when we're tired, stressed or distracted, according to a new research report. Foot In Mouth: Breaking the Rules of Social Behavior; Although honesty is generally taught as the best policy, around a child's birthday and holidays, the little white lie goes a long way Say 'Thank You': Learning How to Lie ; Barista Drug addled, the lot of us
• · · The love of the Irish ; `What we're seeing is a new kind of radicalism that is not practised by people who are poor and oppressed, but by the young and middle class Does violence reside in a dark part of the human psyche?
• · · · The left has failed to inspire the majority of people, for whom life is a losing economic struggle, to turn against the laws and institutions that make their penurious lives inevitable The Soul of Socialism: Connecting with the People’s Values ; Myths about the Second World War won't help us understand what is happening today Revisiting the Blitz Spirit ; The Power of Nightmares Beware the Holy War
• · · · · Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for A look at the life and work of Dag Hammarskjold ; Help From France Key In Covert Operations Christian Ganczarski: Code-named Alliance Base
• · · · · · I love the private world that you and I share - What the American automotive and entertainment industries have in common is trouble Detroit Is So Hollywood, and Vice Versa ; The Nature of Poverty Property rights help the poor even more than the rich ; >; Property and Privilege