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Op-Ed Contributor: Keep Your Hands Off Our Haggis

THIS is very serious. Britain, as most readers of this newspaper know, has long been populated by three warlike tribes, the Scots, the English and the Welsh. Much of British history consists of disputes between these tribes, particularly between the ...

From ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH, International Herald Tribune,  6 Aug 2009
Related Topics: John Logie Baird,  Philo Farnsworth,  Robert Burns

'Sum': Unconventional visions of what an afterlife might be like

inventive possibilities. One is that we are, in fact, immense beings tasked with the physically demanding job of maintaining and upholding the cosmos. When it comes to theories of the afterlife, most of the world's major religions have fairly prosaic ...

From ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH NEW YORK TIMES, The San Jose Mercury News,  3 Jul 2009

Eternal Whimsy

When it comes to theories of the afterlife, most of the world’s major religions have fairly prosaic stuff on offer. Only occasionally will a cosmology be really colorful, as it is in Greek mythology, where some interesting eschatological options are ...

From ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH, The New York Times,  12 Jun 2009

And the band played badly

Why should real musicians - the ones who can actually play their instruments - have all the fun? Some years ago, a group of frustrated people in Scotland decided that the pleasure of playing in an orchestra should not be limited to those who are good ...

From ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH, International Herald Tribune,  11 Mar 2008

Op-Ed Contributor: And the Band Played Badly

WHY should real musicians the ones who can actually play their instruments have all the fun? Some years ago, a group of frustrated people in Scotland decided that the pleasure of playing in an orchestra should not be limited to those who are good ...

From ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH, The New York Times,  8 Mar 2008

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