by admin | Feb 23, 2012 | News
Two surprises came in the mail this week. One was an oil bill for nearly seven hundred dollars. The other was a gift from an old college friend who’s been inventing things out in Silicon Valley. First, the oil bill. Seven hundred dollars is a lot to spend...
by admin | Feb 16, 2012 | News
First, a little bragging. Last week, my nephew, Clayton Krollman, of Burke, Virginia, was accepted into the honors architecture program at the University of Maryland. Go, Clay! This was huge news for him, the culmination of years of study and extracurricular work....
by admin | Feb 9, 2012 | News
Students of Otto von Bismarck, whose titanic personality and political genius were largely responsible for creating the modern German state in the 19th century, were surely thrilled last week to learn that the only known recording of Bismarck’s voice has been...
by admin | Feb 2, 2012 | News
At the moment, I’m operating in a media blackout. No television; no newspaper; no Web. Why? Because about seven hours ago, halfway around in the world, two men stepped onto a tennis court to enact the latest chapter in one of the great sporting rivalries of our...
by admin | Jan 26, 2012 | News
It was the kind of transaction you’d expect in an open market in the heart of Baltimore. My supplier — let’s call him “Produce Guy — ” had just slipped a little something extra in the bag with the tomatoes and the fresh-squeezed...
by admin | Jan 19, 2012 | News
I didn’t notice anything special about the brick as it was going in. It was just a brick, like the hundreds of other salvaged bricks I’d gotten from Ben King, compliments of the demolished County Home in Loysville. It was heavy. It was red. It was...
