![]() Had the convention dissolved, any number of adverse outcomes could have resulted, including civil war or a reversion to monarchy. The Philadelphia convention could easily have been a failure, and the risk of collapse was always present. Based on prodigious research and told largely through the voices of the participants, Michael Klarman's The Framers' Coup narrates how the Framers' clashing interests shaped the Constitution - and American history itself. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views." One need not deny that the Framers had good intentions in order to believe that they also had interests. ![]() However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. ![]()
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![]() Namath was one of the most famous athletes on the planet when he helped engineer the New York Jets to the championship in Super Bowl III. It was one of the few parts of the conversation that focused on sports. ![]() It taught me humility we don’t accomplish much on our own, that was one of the major reasons.” ![]() “It taught me how to deal with life, with people. “Sports taught me a lot of things,” he said when I asked why he decided to write another book, his fourth, in his seventh decade. At 76 years old, Namath said he wanted to share some of his life’s experiences. It’s a line also included in the foreword of his latest book, “All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters.” Calling Joe a “reluctant author” the book chronicles the highest highs and the lowest lows of Namath’s very public life. “We have to learn from each other’s shortcomings and triumphs,” Joe Namath told me this week from his home in Jupiter. ![]() Who’d have thought the guy considered the icon of the “Me First” decades of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s is actually most interested in helping others? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In any event, this is a story for those readers who enjoy reading about history, culture and relationships. However A Place for Us can stand independently as its own book. I heartily recommend reading, Eleni first. I absolutely love this book but I honestly don’t know if it’s because of my own Greek connection, though I don’t think so. Gage also tells of his father’s immigrant experience in the U.S., which has so many similarities to many of the Greek immigrants of the 1980s with whom I worked in diners and restaurants. His immigrant experience is peppered with such sadness but also with hilarious laugh-out-loud mishaps. In A Place for Us, the culture and history of Northern Epirus is interspersed throughout the tale of Gage’s experience as a nine-year-old refugee in the United States. During that time, I was trying to make sense of the area while overcoming my own culture shock and adjusting to marriage. The book has so much meaning for me and I’m not sure why it took me so long to read it (written in 1989). In this one, there’s a scene that ends the story in July of 1983 which is exactly when I was experiencing Epirus, Greece for the first time as a newly married non-Greek Nifi. A Place for us is the sequel to the book Eleni, which I read twice when it came out in the 1980s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Naturally, this being a Murakami story, the possibilities are hallucinogenic, Kafkaesque, and otherwise unsettling and ominous: “Gray is a mixture of white and black. Helpfully, his girlfriend suggests that he make contact with the foursome to find out what he’d done and why he’d deserved their silence. He’s still wounded by the banishment, still mystified at his friends’ behavior. ![]() ![]() Fast-forward two decades, and Tsukuru, true to both his name and his one great passion in life, designs train stations. Alas for Tsukuru, he “lacked a striking personality, or any qualities that made him stand out”-though, for all that, he’s different. Perhaps, he reckons between thoughts of suicide, it’s because they can pair off more easily without a fifth wheel perhaps it’s because his name means “builder,” while all theirs have to do with colors: red pine, blue sea, white root, black field. For some inexplicable reason, his four best friends, two males, two females, have cut him off without a word. Murakami ( IQ84, 2011, etc.) turns in a trademark story that blends the commonplace with the nightmarish in a Japan full of hollow men. ![]() ![]() Rick, the recovering alcoholic bartender, is also in a state of anticipation he means to turn his life around by paying all his savings to a perma-tanned life coach. Each of them, in his or her own way, is preoccupied with the idea of life as a coherent story.įor Karen, a divorced mother nearing 40, the soulless bar represents the possibility of connection – with Warren, a man she met two weeks earlier in an internet chatroom. For the characters thrown together at the Toronto Airport Camelot Hotel cocktail lounge in Douglas Coupland's latest novel, it's a chance to reflect on the nature of time and what it means to be human. ![]() ![]() A irports lend themselves usefully to fiction they represent a world of fleeting contacts, of strangers suspended between origin and destination, a transitory moment in which identities and inhibitions can be cast aside. ![]() ![]() ![]() As websites become more complex and interactive, JavaScript has become an essential component of web development.However, not all visitors have JavaScript enabled on their browsers, which can create issues with functionality and accessibility.In this blog post, we will explore the impact of JavaScript's absence on a website's performance and user experience.We will also discuss alternatives to JavaScript and best practices for creating JavaScript-free websites. ![]() ![]() Then, in a twist that Mr Adams can hardly have expected when, in 1978, he first put pen to paper, the World Wide Web gave him a chance to create something like the real thing, at least for earth-bound travellers ( Douglas Adams died of a heart attack on May 11th while exercising in a gym. The idea went through several iterations, first as a radio series, then television, then a sequence of books which, though described as a trilogy, ran to five volumes. (They slip through wormholes in space to biro heaven when nobody is looking.) ![]() It even found room for an explanation of where ballpoint pens vanish to. ![]() Instead of giants, pygmies and super-intelligent horses, it was populated by bug-eyed monsters who use poetry as a form of torture, creatures whose chromosomes are so unstable that they evolve several times a day, and super-intelligent shades of the colour blue. It was a Swiftian satire for the late 20th century. Such people would, of course, need a guide to their travels: a compendium of useful information with that most useful of all injunctions, “Don't Panic”, written on the front cover in large, friendly letters. So Long and Thanks for the Fish So Long and Thanks for the Fish: Adams, Douglas: 9780886461447: : Books Skip to main content. ![]() He was in a field at night (most versions of the legend place this field in Austria), looking at the stars, when the thought came to him that there might be people hitchhiking between those stars on spaceships. So Long and Thanks for the Fish Adams, Douglas on. Legend has it that the idea for “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” came to Douglas Adams when he was, himself, hitchhiking. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mallouk was born in Orangeville, Ontario, Canada on September 10, 1960. From 1990 to 2005, she pursued her education and became a Doctor of Medicine with a specialty in psychiatry. She also had a brief music career as singer and songwriter performing under the stage name Ruby Desire. In 1985, Mallouk had a one-woman show at the Vox Populi Gallery in the East Village. ![]() Mallouk was involved in the pursuit of justice for the death of Michael Stewart, a victim of police brutality in 1983. In 2015, Vogue magazine listed Basquiat and Mallouk among "The 21 Most Stylish Art World Couples of All Time." ![]() She is best known for being amongst a core of East Village creatives in the 1980s and for her relationship with artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, both of which are chronicled by her friend Jennifer Clement in Widow Basquiat: A Memoir. Suzanne Mallouk (born September 10, 1960) is a Canadian-born painter, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst based in New York City. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Lord William's murderer finally confessed his guilt, he would cite this novel in his defense. One such phenomenon was William Harrison Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard, the story of an unrepentant criminal who escaped the gallows time and again. Even Dickens and Thackeray, both at the beginning of their careers, fell under the spell of these tales-Dickens publicly admiring them, Thackeray rejecting them. The best-selling titles were the most sensational true-crime stories. In the years just before the murder, new printing methods had made books cheap and abundant, the novel form was on the rise, and suddenly everyone was reading. The missing clue, it turned out, lay in the unlikeliest place: what Courvoisier had been reading. The police suspected Russell's valet, Courvoisier, but the evidence was weak. ![]() ![]() The brutal murder had the whole city talking. From the acclaimed biographer-the fascinating, little-known story of a Victorian-era murder that rocked literary London, leading Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and Queen Victoria herself to wonder: Can a novel kill?In May 1840, Lord William Russell, well known in London's highest social circles, was found with his throat cut. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jordan Dangerfield, US, SS (free agent).Jake Curhan, US, OT ( Seattle Seahawks). ![]() Gabe Carimi, US, OT, All-American and Outland Trophy.Noah Cantor, Canada, DT, Canadian Football League. ![]() Some members of the list may practice other religions or no religion at all, but are of Jewish descent. To be included in the list, one does not necessarily have to practice Judaism, or to hail from Israel. holders of past and current world records.for team sports, winning in preliminary competitions of finals at major international tournaments, or playing for several seasons for clubs of major national leagues or. ![]()
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