Every once and a while these stories come rolling around, especially when schools are about to start. I normally read them and then rightfully forget them. But remember yesterday’s “a broad education is the best preparation?” Now read this: “I actually visited the Berlin Wall with my parents when I was in fifth grade,” said...
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Every so often I search the term “public relations” in Google to see what has changed. Maybe I didn’t notice it before, but this time I saw a page from the Princeton Review in the top 5. It is a page for students who are looking to decide on a career; it explains what...
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I’m not a particularly big fan of baseball, but I do pay attention to headlines. Now, I know that the Tribune recently “struck a historic deal to take over delivery of its smaller, struggling rival, the Chicago Sun-Times” (note the snarky “struggling”). But I suspect that there might be a deal involving headlines...
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Dutch Perspective on December 5, 2006: “Now I’m imagining a grand museum—a collaboration between the world’s greatest museums perhaps?—where Second Life residents can roam through virtual galleries, where paintings are replaced by high-resolution images This museum has lecture rooms, where world-famous curators or art historians can lecture before an audience of Second Life residents....
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I just celebrated my second wedding anniversary in the picturesque little town of Galena, Illinois and in what must be one of the most unfortunate moments of forgetfulness, I didn’t bring my camera. We stayed at the beautiful Victorian Mansion, a cozy and historic bed and breakfast, where, apparently, U.S. Grant’s “departing speech was...
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