March 2011
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Steve Inskeep’s series on Pakistan’s Grand Trunk Road was among the most insightful works I heard last year, and I think it went largely unnoticed.
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I thought Governor Dewhurst’s speech was all wrong. It was too long, too partisan, too campaign oriented. He had one foot off the platform on the way to Washington.
Sometimes the things he said made no sense at all. Speaking of the early settlers, he said, “Those men and women who made their way to Texas, who settled these unforgiving plains, who sought neither a handout nor a stimulus...
December 2010
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“For some reason he continued on to the West Indies, where he told a Spanish...”
– Excerpted from The Rock Observed, by Patrick O’flaherty. Source text from The Precursors of Jacques Cartier, by H.P Biggar