The boss.
NOW that Bill has met God, he'll have some idea of how I felt when I met him. I joined the staff of NR in 1979, the year I finished college. Bill was in his early 50s and his "cruising speed" was about 500 miles per hour. Who was...

A second father.
AT about age 13 I became mesmerized by Bill Buckley's column in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. His intellect and good humor literally created my desire to learn. But in my first year of college I flunked Speech 101 (I refused to outline). At age 20 I told my dad...

The secret power of blogging; how to promote and market your business, organization, or cause with free blogs.
9781601380098 The secret power of blogging; how to promote and market your business, organization, or cause with free blogs. Brown, Bruce C. Atlantic Publishing 2008 288 pages $24.95 Paperback TK5105 This...

IRI InfoScan Reviews to Include Duane Reade Data.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-18 June 2008-IRI InfoScan Reviews to Include Duane Reade Data(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com IRI InfoScan Reviews, a syndicated retail tracking service, said that it now includes data from Duane Reade, a drugstore chain in metropolitan New York, Information Resources (IRI) announced today. ...

`Sex' fans may get Carried away.
Byline: Daniel M. Kimmel COLUMN: MOVIE REVIEW When someone tells you they've just seen "Sex and the City" - the new movie based on the HBO series that ran from 1998 to 2004 - stop them and ask if he or, more likely, she actually...

One of the Last Great Orators:Catch the Burning Flag, By Henry J. Hyde, Published by National Review Books, $22.95, available from http://store.nationalreview.com.
A New York Times article published in October 1882 lamented the decline of great oratory in the United States, saying, "Nature scattered her gifts with a lavish hand along the pathway of the first century of the Republic, and has now withdrawn her treasures for a time more favorable...

Mass Media Unleashed: How Washington Policymakers Shortchanged the American Public.
The book treats two policies: the public trustee policy and the deregulatory market policy, which was introduced in 1980 and has now reached full fruition. The former is based on the consideration that more people want to broadcast than there are available frequencies or channels, that the government chooses...

California Pizza Kitchen Gets $150 Million Credit Line.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-13 May 2008-California Pizza Kitchen Gets $150 Million Credit Line(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com California Pizza Kitchen announced that it has entered into a new $150 million credit facility with a syndicate of banks. The five-year facility includes an option to be...

Please help spread the word: Pro-Life Perspective and Apple's iTunes.
Last June, we announced, with de-served fanfare, the launch of www.prolifeperspective.com, the online home of National Right to Life's daily five-minute radio program, Pro-Life Perspective. The web site was designed both as a vehicle to share the show with those pro-lifers who might not be able to hear the...

BRIEFLY.
Byline: The Register-Guard Unit meetings to discuss county water resources The League of Women Voters of Lane County will hold unit meetings to discuss this month's topic, "Water Resources in Lane County." The group previously has published two reports on local rivers, streamsand...