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Studio Interesting people Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister, Canada \| New York Times The departing prime minister, Jean Chrétien, defended keeping Canadian troops out of Iraq, pushing for gay marriage and liberalizing drug laws in an interview this week that made clear his lasting differences with the Bush administration. "I don't think a kid of 17 years old who has a joint should have a criminal record," he said flatly on Monday in the broad-ranging interview in his elegant official residence as he prepared to retire after 10 years in office. ... From a youth of brawling, Mr. Chrétien graduated from law school and then began a 40-year career in the House of Commons at the age of 29 barely speaking a word of English. His English is still halting (he is not eloquent in French either), but his folksiness has given him a reservoir of popularity through a series of scandals and a nearly disastrous defeat in 1995 when Quebec almost voted to separate from Canada. "A few votes the other way and he may have gone down in history as one of the worst prime ministers," said Lawrence Martin, his biographer. Mr. Martin concluded that while Mr. Chrétien never had a commanding vision for Canada, "he was a triumph of instincts." Choir rehearsal Bexley afterwards Talked to Grandma for awhile; we ate some ice cream Things I learned today Great-grandfather was not much of a gardener, though every once in awhile he would plant something just so Grandma could see how it would grow. Corn, for example. Peanuts one year. This would have been in Richmond, Indiana. He was much more of a book person; Great-grandmother enjoyed gardening a little more, though. Grandma does not particularily like sage or oregano (from the gardening and herbs discussion). But she does like dill. w N O V E M B E R 1 2 , 2 0 0 3 Images The City after Dark City Hall 1, 2 The Old Old Post Office / Bricker & Eckler 1 Central Presbyterian 1 Trinity Episcopal 1 Police Headquarters 1 The Water Under the Bridge 1 Vintage 1 Komatsu 1 Riverwalk 1 • Blue The way of the wind The National Weather Service has issued tornado watches and severe thunderstorm warnings and wind advisories -- trash is whipping through the streets, flags rap and pull at their poles, wrap and tangle and rip and tear free; I am home, finally. Yo Yo Ma \| The Soul of the Tango is playing. It has the audacity, the ever-movement, the confidence of the wind. The music is a deep amber, a copper almost ... but the evening, it is blue. Interesting people Clarence Moore New York Times With aid of neither cane nor helping hand, Clarence Moore, who is in his 90's, hobbles about the last house left standing on old Wallace Road. On the wall, he has placed three decorations. Across from a photograph of his wife, Savannah, deceased, and a portrait of Lyndon Baines Johnson hangs a plaque that commends "the heroic effort" Mr. Moore made on Aug. 7, 1945, "saving the lives of 170 guests and employees." Advertisement But Mr. Moore speaks dismissively of that night in upstate New York, if he can be prompted to speak of it at all. "When the fire started, I don't know how come I go back in," he said. "I woke everybody up." "I used to get around," he concludes, and he shrugs and changes the subject. Try as he might to pretend that the story ends there, Mr. Moore stands contradicted by his own house. The place has been falling apart for years, but it has a sturdy new roof, a gift intended to repay a debt six decades old. A New Jersey man, Kurt Landsberger, paid for roof repairs because his wife and mother lived two of the lives saved that night a few months after V-E Day. The power of music Once again a very grey day, without even the release of raindrops. 12:30 p.m., cutting through the fog and drear, I heard church bells as I was walking along Nationwide Boulevard. As uplifting and steadying as a foghorn, they cut through the mist -- a something out of the nothing. M&D to Sioux Falls t N O V E M B E R 1 1 , 2 0 0 3 • Grey I don't trust myself with words tonight. I am afraid I am getting them all wrong -- mixed up. I had a bad day. There was the doorbell, knocks at the door, telephone calls, a cacophony barreling, tunneling at me, before I got up, before I wanted to get up -- and I didn't want to get up, I didn't want to move, to go, to talk, to see anyone. And I spent all day not wanting to talk, not wanting to be challenged by anyone, not wanting to participate in life. And finally, late, I made it home, safely, in my house, and shut the door. I know I won't want to leave in the morning; it will be another struggle, a withdrawal from the world ... It rained all day; irremediably grey, wet, and rainy. Warm, though. A warm, indeterminate drear. I saw and felt vibrant colors in people around me, and I myself felt grey, drained, and empty. Enya \| Watermark is playing. Close to home, feeling so far away. Discipline I tried to use some in styling a document for Amy -- it wasn't the sort of thing that called out for overdesigning. Images Fixed some links, linked to some pages I had put up before, added some promo icons, added cutlines to some of the photos, &c. &c. Chihuly at the Conservatory galleries 1, 2, 3 \| Link Arena District after dark 1, 2 \| Link Spring-Sandusky interchange 1, map \| Link Federal Courthouse 1 \| Link AESQUE \| Aesque main page update Another good reason not to forget the ACLU Charlotte Post & Courier [Ray] Glover, [a senior at Stratford High School] said an officer hustled him out of the cafeteria and into the hallway, placed plastic handcuffs on him and made him lie on the floor while his clothes and book bag were searched. "He was yelling, telling me to get down," he said. "The police are crazy nowadays. If stuff like this keeps happening, a lot of students won't want to come back to school." It's been nearly a week since the Goose Greek Police Department's drug sweep sparked both widespread criticism and a state law enforcement investigation. School officials -- tentatively, at least -- still stand behind the drug sweep, which netted no drugs or arrests. Questions about why police officers felt it necessary to draw their weapons on teenagers and whether black students were unfairly targeted have only grown more insistent. Representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union plan to come to Goose Creek this week to investigate whether the group should sue, said Anjuli Verma, with the ACLU's drug policy litigation project in Washington, D.C. Via Instapundit You're either with us ... NYT The Supreme Court will hear the Guantánamo Bay prisoners' appeals in spite of the government's argument that the court has no jurisdiction. [T]he administration drew an uncompromising line at the threshold of the entire debate, insisting in the brief filed by Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson that these were not cases that the Supreme Court should even hear. The implication was that there was nothing to discuss. I think this is the attitude that sums up the Bush administration for me -- there is never anything to discuss; simply sit back and take their word for it. m N O V E M B E R 1 0 , 2 0 0 3 The power of music Washington Times Rock music played the lead in giving Hungarian baby boomers the resolve to bring down their communist state, says Hungary's ambassador to the United States, who was one of those reformers. "By keeping in touch with the music scene in the West, it kind of kept me sane and with the feeling I was part of the free world," said Andras Simonyi at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Mr. Simonyi, 51, was a devoted fan of the Beatles, Cream, Traffic and Jimi Hendrix when their releases weren't permitted in Hungary. Records and tapes sometimes were smuggled in or recorded from foreign radio broadcasts. Arena district after dark AESQUE \| Link Two galleries; Union Station Arch and Streets and sights n N O V E M B E R 9 , 2 0 0 3 To visit someday Machu Picchu and surrounds, such as the newly discovered ruins at Llactapata CNN Time to rethink corporate subsidies United Airlines just abandoned a state-of-the-art maintenance facility that Indianapolis built for them for $320 million. Companies in Columbus also tend to get the benefits even if they don't live up to the obligations. The giveaways come in many forms. Iowa, for example, has just authorized $75 million a year until 2010 to finance subsidies to corporations. The State of Washington has offered Boeing a $3.2 billion subsidy package to locate the manufacture of its 7E7 airliner in the state. New York is creating more "Empire Zones ," which are patches of land set aside in various counties where companies can locate nearly tax free. One way or another, the cities and states, in forfeiting more than $30 billion a year in tax revenue, are channeling to the private sector enough to hire 375,000 schoolteachers at $50,000 a year plus benefits. NYT Fluffy pillow Amy's pillow is once again safely stored away. The American Language H.L. Mencken Is now misfiled -- an old book with an equally old dustjacket, the latter of which returned to dust as I was reading the book. The dustjacket was green; the book is blue and can't go back to the shelves in the secondary colors room. Telephones I don't like them. The telephone in the kitchen works rarely, lines 1 and 2 alternate effectiveness, cellphones get questionable reception and often don't pick up voices well anyway, ... I lose everything in translation on telephones. Amy to Akron Chapel Choir Sang at church And let all who toil, let them come to the water. And let all who are weary, let them come to the Lord: all who labor, without rest. How can your soul find rest, except for the Lord? -- John Foley, SJ A beautiful modern reflection on Hope, faith, life, love dream, joy, truth, soul. Only those words were sung as the music interpreted each and came to a climax on joy. All His Benefits, with memorable lyrics. And the traditional Christiansen Beautiful Savior. We sang the benediction en masse with them. I slipped out of the choir loft on a couple of occasions to snap quick photos of the Chapel Choir. Faith Bauer asked if was feeling OK to have to get up and leave so often. With several pews at the front on each side roped off for the choir to sit during the service, the view from the choir loft was different than usual. It reminded me of the way I saw the church when we first switched from Faith Lutheran when I was in junior high -- cavernous, dark, and remote. Pastor Hudson preached a good sermon on the best two cents worth of advice you'll ever get -- from the parable of the poverty-stricken widow who put two copper coins, all she had, into the Lord's offering. Dinner in Bexley afterward. Steak, asparagus (really, this time), mashed potatoes, fruit. Hard frost Nearly everything outside is over for the year. The basil died back the night before; last night even the pineapple sage was scorched. Last year it lasted well past the basil. The tomatoes are over, and the impatiens out front were flattened. > NOVEMBER 01