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Columns July 11, 2008  RSS feed

Dimensions
A good year for workers' rights
      After Chief Justice John Roberts began his tenure last year, the decisions in cases that involved workers' charges of discrimination came through on the side of the employers.
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A View of the Absurd
Publish and perish
      Hemingway told Bernard Berenson: "Having books published is very destructive to writing." Salinger put it like this to me and to all writers (of fiction): "There is a marvelous peace in not publishing." King Solomon (in Ecclesiastes) said that "there is no end to the publishing of too many books." He said that 3,000 years ago.
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Israel Viewpoint
Guided tour at Megiddo
      My wife Michal and I, plus about eight others, recently had the pleasure of a personal tour of the Megiddo National Archaeological Park, which overlooks the Jezreel Valley. Our guide to the UNproclaimed site was our friend Dr. Norma Franklin, an archaeologist who is the coordinator of the Megiddo Expedition of Tel Aviv University. [http://whc.unesco.
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