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Aging sewer lines could create service disruptions and turn us all into ‘les miserables.’

January 16, 2012 | Author: | Posted in Dr. Jeffrey Lant’s Article Archive

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. Quick! Can you name a hugely popular Broadway musical which partly takes place in the ancient, fetid sewers of Paris? That would be Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1980 mega-hit “Les Miserables”, a tale of love, fate, comradeship… and of the spirit of freedom and liberty that cannot be crushed …

‘I’m not taking orders from no one.’ An appreciation for that force of nature called Sophie Tucker, ‘Last of the Red-Hot Mamas’.

January 14, 2012 | Author: | Posted in Dr. Jeffrey Lant’s Article Archive

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. I was writing an article the other day about the catastrophic year the African elephant had had in 2011, with record numbers of its dwindling population shot to death for its ivory; thereby moving this majestic animal closer and closer to its likely extinction by 2020. I was …

Review: Worldprofit’s Home Business Bootcamp on Jan 13, 2012 with George Kosch

January 13, 2012 | Author: | Posted in Dr. Jeffrey Lant’s Article Archive

Today, George Kosch presented 90 minutes of interactive LIVE online training during the Jan 13th session of Worldprofit’s Home Business Bootcamp. Topics included in today’s Home Business Bootcamp Training The critical importance of consistent marketing How to BE a marketer Target Marketing Bootcamp Videos Bootcamp Lessons Associate signups: Why and How. Conversion to sales Recommended …

NEGU! An appreciation for the brief life and universal impact of Jessica Joy Rees, blogger, dead at 12, January 6, 2012.

January 13, 2012 | Author: | Posted in Dr. Jeffrey Lant’s Article Archive

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. In 1970 Erich Segal began his international best seller “Love Story” with this line: “What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?” The world shed copious, cleansing tears to find out. It was fiction in the cinemascope manner. But my story is not fiction, it is …

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Heir Presumptive… Joseph P. Kennedy III, we have been impatiently awaiting you.

January 11, 2012 | Author: | Posted in Dr. Jeffrey Lant’s Article Archive

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. When the White Hope of a great dynasty reveals himself and his intentions, it is only fitting that this moment of significance be marked and marked well. Thus, gentles all, I give you Sir William Walton’s stirring prelude to the 1944 film of Shakespeare’s Henry V. It is …

Jobless rate drops to 8.5%… Obama winks at Michelle and does his happy dance… O! Mamma!

January 10, 2012 | Author: | Posted in Dr. Jeffrey Lant’s Article Archive

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant It is Saturday, January 7, 2012 as I write. The nation’s air waves and print publications are filled with stories about Republicans. About today’s flash-in-the-pan former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum… about the Boston Globe endorsing former Utah governor and U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman over Boston’s not-so-favorite son former Massachusetts …

‘Some of these days, you’re gonna miss me….’ 2011 a catastrophic year for the endangered African elephants. Do we really care?

January 9, 2012 | Author: | Posted in Dr. Jeffrey Lant’s Article Archive

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. In 1911 Shelton Brooks wrote and composed a tune that became the signature song for the “Last of the Red-Hot Mamas”, Sophie Tucker. There wasn’t a woman alive (not a girl, mind, but a card-carrying woman) who didn’t love Tucker for getting up off her backside and singing …

‘The old gray mare, she ain’t what she used to be,’ but I’m just as spry as ever, and don’t you dare call me sir!

January 7, 2012 | Author: | Posted in Dr. Jeffrey Lant’s Article Archive

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. One minute I was walking home through Harvard Square, savoring the exceptionally good meal I had just finished. The next minute, there were three or four boys peering down at me saying, “Sir, sir, are you alright?” I recognized this voice, the special tone Harvard students reserve for …

Review: Home Business Bootcamp with George Kosch Jan 6, 2011

January 6, 2012 | Author: | Posted in Dr. Jeffrey Lant’s Article Archive

We’re off into 2012 for another entire year of online training on how to make money online! Worldprofit’s first Home Business training session of 2012 was presented today by George Kosch and ran for over 90 minutes. Learning Topics included: -Suggestions for brand new Members on how to get started, what to do and where …

‘Parting is such sweet sorrow.’ An appreciation for the life of George Whitman, his bookstore and the books he loved. Dead at 98, December 14, 2011.

January 6, 2012 | Author: | Posted in Dr. Jeffrey Lant’s Article Archive

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. Start this article by going at once to any search engine where you will find the stirring, uplifting music, a royal theme, with just a touch of sadness, written by Sir William Walton in 1955 for Shakespeare’s Richard III, the film staring Sir Laurence Olivier. Listen to it …