Writing

April 18, 2011

Libya and War: No Good Deed goes Unpunished: Conclusion

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On this day in April, 1941, Libya was on fire. General Rommel had begun to counterattack. British troops were...

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April 10, 2011

No good deed goes unpunished: Part Three: Penicillin, People, and Libya: No longer the safest place on earth

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In the 1940’s, American production not only succeeded in building tanks and bombers, it brought life to the desert....

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April 1, 2011

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished–Part Two “Great Expectations”

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Remember Great Expectations from high school English (if you were born before 1960) or the movie (Gwyneth Paltrow, Ethan...

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March 30, 2011

THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: No good deed goes unpunished. Part One

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Charles Dickens was the master of using coincidence as a literary device to portray social horrors. Oliver Twist condemned...

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March 22, 2011

War in Libya, nuclear devastation, and me

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Sometimes I need to step down from my perch as author of historical novels, as lawyer and traveler, and...

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