Year: 2007
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United States Army: The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
New book from University of Chicago Press: United States Army: The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual When the U.S. military invaded Iraq, it lacked a common understanding of the problems inherent in counterinsurgency campaigns. It had neither studied them, nor developed doctrine and tactics to deal with them. It is fair to say that…
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Winfield Mounds Through the Seasons
My kids and I often go to the Winfield Mounds, a small little nature preserve. Here’s more from the DuPage County Forest Preserve website: Winfield Mounds Forest Preserve once was the home to various pre-historic Native Americans who dwelled along the West Branch of the DuPage River. They lived a simple hunter-gatherer lifestyle, made possible…
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Elevator Mnemonics > Literature 10 > Shakespeare
On Wabash and Adams, near the South Loop colleges. Hence, the area-of-study focus.
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Dearborn Grocers
In the early-mid 80s I worked at the Walgreens at Halsted & Diversey as a stock boy/ cashier person. One of the things I had to do was let “the Dearborn guy” in the back when he came to deliver our food order a couple times a week. Dearborn was a wholesale grocer– we’d get…
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Charles Simic is our new Poet Laureate, and that’s a good thing
Charles Simic was named our new Poet Laureate today, and I cheer. I haven’t been able to stand any of the previous ones in my lifetime, despite their dutiful nods to performance poetry. They’re hacks, in the main. Simic is the real deal. Here’s a snip of the NYT story: Mr. Simic, speaking by telephone…