May 2001 - web version
The European Prospect /Related Pages
• Europe 2020's Virtual Seminars: "EU Democratization - the conditions of success of a public debate on the future of Europe" - & The Executive Draft
• Civis Europaeus links - (Meaningful selections)
• Timeline of Significant Names in Western Culture
• The History of the European Union - (Cut up a little, a chronology from 1946 to 2001)
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David Copperfield Community picks:
DC unabridged audio
(...) My purpose is to communicate and suggest that any reader,
devout fan of David Copperfield or Charles Dickens, may take great
delight in listening to this audio tale. It is lengthy, 40 hours of
listening plus, but worth every minute (...) Read more*
Quotes: Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!
(added by Ellen_rh)
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Dickens resources:
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The Phiz Illustrations
Christina Wu writes: "I love the illustrations so much. Do you publish them in book form? Is it possible for me to buy the book?"
No Christina, we don't sell anything. But: you can find the illustrations if you buy the novel in an edition that includes them. We thought of offering a downloadable edition of the illustrations, but the trafic of our sites is causing bandwidth problems, so that such a large download (approx. 6mb) seems impossible right now. Maybe in the future we'll do that.
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Eric Lomazoff on his work on Salinger
My name is Eric Lomazoff. There is a link on one of your websites for an essay that I wrote in 1996 entitled "The Praises are Criticisms of the Catcher in the Rye." I understand that students from various places (all with access to the web) have been using my paper as a resource on Salinger. I have no legitimate authority whatsoever to write on Salinger. I was in 11th grade when I wrote that essay, and I submitted it to the Levity website so as to get some feedback on the ideas expressed within. It surely should not have been posted on-line, and I regret that students have mistaken my essay for a legitimate piece of Salinger scholarship. I hope that you will be able to remove the link to the essay and avoid any further confusion.
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Sincerely,
Eric Lomazoff
Senior, University of PennsylvaniaDear Eric, Since this text is available on-line one can link to it at will. I believe you should contact the site owner that publishes your text and ask him to remove it. - E
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Mysticism
Mr. Cullan writes:
I am very interested in the modes and techniques as used by the modern mystics. If they are similar to other practices of Buddhim Hindu and others.
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I'd like to have some studies with the subject that interests you, but it's difficult to find good ones - not to mention copyright problems etc. - E
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Meister Eckhart
Mr. Samil writes:
I'm a turkish scholar in Turkey, philosophy department. I want to know more about M. Eckhart, can you help me. Please contact with me. [e-mail: samilocal@yahoo.com]
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Dear Mr. Samil, we publish all the information we have on Eckhart study material at Eckhart On-line Resources - E
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Resources:
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Messages
Online concert featuring Montserrat Caballé
Editor's picks
Raymond Aron & the power of ideas
The primary target of Aron’s polemic was fanaticism. But he also recognized that the defeat of fanaticism often leads to a contrary spiritual sickness, indifference. Both are expressions of the ultimate enemy, nihilism. Skepticism, Aron wrote, is useful or harmful depending on which is more to be feared at the moment: fanaticism or apathy. The intervening faculty that orients us appropriately is practical wisdom, prudence, “the god” (Aron quotes Burke) “of this lower world.” In other words, skepticism for Aron is not the end but a means.
New @ Search port : • xrefer (Free access to over 50 reference titles containing more than 500,000 entries)
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Images of Greece: Recommended links• An excellent collection at Tomek's Grecja dla marzycieli (text in Polish).
• Greek Image LinkBase (pretty large and frequently updated)* * *
Troubleshooter
If you want to prevent "Shortcut to" prefix from being added to new shortcuts you can just create and rename a shortcut to any file 5 times, each time removing the annoying prefix. The sixth shortcut, and any shortcut from now on, will be created without the prefix. I've tested it in Win2k and it works (microsoft says it works in win9x/ME). See this article for more ways of preventing the prefix.*
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Freeware downloads
/System tools
End it All by Neil J. Rubenkings lets you terminate all non-essential programs for the purpose of installing new software, running finicky games, or writing to CD-Rs that need a big buffer. The essential system programs Explorer and Systray cannot be terminated. EndItAll's main window presents a list of running processes. You can
protect any process in the list from termination./File management
EZFoldFx is a utility to compare 2 folders and report differences. The most convenient I've seen so far.
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Help & tips
• The DOS batch file programming handbook - An excellent site, if you are a little familiar with (and you use) batch files.
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