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by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author's program note. I keep a special box of heavy-duty tissues on hand for just this situation. A good friend of mine called yesterday and was low, low, low. Reason? He's just been given ...
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author's Program Note: Are you a tax-paying American? Then today's article will not merely irritate or anger you; it will enrage you. It is the story of stupidity, of waste, of fraud, of co...
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant This is a story of pathos, sadness, tragedy, of lives cut short too soon. But most of all it is the story of everyday people, your neighbors, friends and colleagues, who, without warning or prepa...
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author's program note. Over the course of your life, you'll give a cart load of gifts. Gifts for people getting engaged, gifts for getting married, even gifts for getting divorced. There are gif...
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author's program note. Every year, it seems, the opening date for Christmas marketing creeps forward, adding days, not just hours, to the already lengthy selling season. This year my cadre of Chr...
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author's program note. Is there a person alive (or at least a movie goer) who doesn't know about Scarlet O'Hara, the spit-fire whom author Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) originally wanted to ...
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant The resignation of Congressman Anthony Weiner, June 16, 2011. Throwing away "the dearest thing he owed as 'twere a careless trifle." Shakespeare, who knew a thing or two about delivering the...
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author's program note. In 1965, an obscure meat company called Oscar Mayer needed something to boost sales, which were going nowhere fast. The owner wanted results and he needed them yesterday. ...
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author's program note. I was eighteen or so when I became aware of Jacques Brel.... and, quite simply, I adored him and the language he wielded with exquisite sensitivity and dangerous power...
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant I have been thinking a lot lately about Eddie Slovik. He was a private in the US Army during World War II and had the unsavory distinction to be the only soldier of the Great Republic to be cour...
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author's program note. In the great classic film "Casablanca" (1942), Claude Rains plays a cynical French officer, Captain Renault, whose job, as he sees it, is to stay alive, live well and to g...
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant . Author's program note. Ca ira is pronounced "saa ee rah" and means "it'll be fine". You'll find it in any search engine. Beware, for it is one of the most potent songs ever written.... Thi...
Author's program note. When was the last time you ensconced yourself in a favorite space and wrote a letter with your own hand, from the heart to a friend long distant, unseen perhaps for years, but still fondly remember...
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant . Author's program note. I wrote this article because of the appalling news emanating from one of the greatest institutions of the Great Republic, namely the American Academy of Arts and Scien...
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author's program note. Remember Leona Helmsley (1920-2007), widely known as "the Queen of Mean"? She had the great good fortune to marry one of the Great Republic's richest men, hotelier Harry H...
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author's program note. I was thinking of the Honorable Barack today and of how chagrined and irritated he must be these days. After all, having enjoyed the good fortune of drawing the hapless an...
Author's program note. As I write, in early October, the Monarch has just about finished its great conjuring trick for another year; rising, flying, gliding, dancing in its millions with sun beams as it hastens, lik...
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author's program note. Oh, my, she was angry, angry to the point of bursting, to the point of indiscretion, even scandal. And so she let fly a cascade of hot words, each one hotter and less con...
Author's program note. It is 5:35 a.m. here in Cambridge and the day threatens to be gray, overcast and wet (at least so far), not up to the radiant holiday standard we're used to on a plu-perfect springtime day. Bu...
Author's program note. These are troubling days in the heart of what was once one of the grandest and most civilized of kingdoms... for Hungary was all that and more, a people of the highest culture, sophisticated, mas...