Jul

6

Little Bear.

Posted by Christopher Waldrop

July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere and look due North you’ll see a distinctive constellation known, variously, as The Little Dipper, The Little Bear, or, to the Romans, Ursa Minor. At the end of the little bear’s unusually long tail (in mythology said to have been lengthened by the bear’s spinning around the pole), […]

Jul

4

An Unpatriotic Act.

Posted by Christopher Waldrop

July 4, 2007 | 5 Comments

As librarian Joan Airoldi explained in her article Case Study: A Grand Jury Subpoena in the PATRIOT Act Era: One Library’s Lesson, in the Winter 2006 issue of Library Administration & Management, the FBI came to the Deming [Washington] Library in June 2004 and asked that the library hand over the names of all persons […]

Jul

2

Summer Reading: The Results Are In!

Posted by Christopher Waldrop

July 2, 2007 | 11 Comments

I’d like to thank everyone who submitted their favorite summer reads. The selections were as interesting as they were diverse, and I feel I learned a lot about the community of readers out there (as well as getting some great ideas for summer reading of my own). Here are the books some Just Write readers […]

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