This New England

5:32 PM Wed, Jan 28, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

In John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick, apparently based on Wickford and East Greenwich, R.I., he describes a storm over Narragansett Bay: "The wind stiffened, and the sky toward Providence stood revealed as possessing the density of some translucent,......

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Pope's warning about the Web

12:09 PM Wed, Jan 28, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Pope Benedict XVI has a new YouTube channel and that's fine, but he makes the following warning to those who think that friendship on a screen is the same as friendship in person: "The concept of friendship has enjoyed......

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