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It was Benjamin Franklin who came up with the list – temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, humility. Then, for a year writer and visual artist Teresa Jordan sought to live it, taking weekends off.In the journal she kept, Jordan records her struggles with living in accordance with those perhaps antiquainted notions of virtue, as well as the temptations of the seven deadly sins. Those meditations became this collection of beautifully illustrated essays devoted to her quest to find meaning in what she calls

This article appeared in Homeland Security Affairs (January 2008), v.4 no.1 ; As New York City and the nation prepared to remember the sixth anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, the talk started about September 11th fatigue: 'a weariness of reliving a day that everyone wishes had never happened.' 'I may sound callous, but doesn'۪t grieving have a shelf life?' one person asked. 'We'۪re very sorry and mournful that people died, but there are living people. Let'۪s wind it down.' That gets my vote for 2007's most startling homeland security story. One gets startled when something happens one was not expecting. Perhaps I should not have been so surprised. I spoke with a lot of thoughtful homeland security professionals last year. [''_] Their responses present a snapshot of Homeland Security 2007 as captured by people who work with and think about these issues all year. Their ideas remind us of the continuing debate about the meaning, scope, and effect of homeland security. Not every important topic or trend is mentioned. What is cited, however, outlines the still emerging terrain of homeland security. Intelligence-arguably the core of preventing another major attack-was a significant issue in 2007. Several national intelligence estimates and related products revealed more information about 'the threat' and about how the intelligence community does its work. Unsurprisingly, the more one knows about this element of the nation's security, the more questions are raised. Can we rely on the accuracy and objectivity of intelligence generated by government? How does intelligence actually help the nation be better prepared? ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

"This is the third volume of the First of the Year annual series. Contributors such as Armond White, Philip Levine, Charles O'Brien, Uri Avnery, Donna Gaines, Tom Smucker, Scott Spencer, and Amiri Baraka are back (and fractious as ever). And First's family of writers keeps growing. This volume includes vital new voices such as A.B. Spellman, Bernard Avishai, Rudolph Wurlitzer, and Diane di Prima. First never shies away from hot button issues?Fredric Smoler, for example, offers a definitive consideration of America's recent history with torture. But First's approach to current political firestorms is often marked by a cool sense of the past. History is always in the mix when First writers examine the roots of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin and contemporary right-wing pundits who falsely claim the mantle of Whittaker Chambers. First's refusal to toe "correct" lines is apparent in Benj DeMott's reconsideration of Chambers' work. The new volume is also marked by its cultivation of radical imaginations. The ideas of the Situationists and Cornelius Castoriadis are revived. A young historian, David Waldstreicher, recovers the radical, useable past in the 60s work of Staughton Lynd. Amiri Baraka evokes the felt quality of Jesse Jackson's 1988 campaign and another poet remembers (in verse) long-forgotten, extreme political acts of American Renaissance poets. A recent review of First of the Year: 2009 used a phrase of Kenneth Burke's?"perspective by incongruity"?to make sense of the method that shaped it. First is committed to thought-provoking incongruities. Faith that wonder is our best teacher informs this volume. First's music writing provides a high-low soundtrack of surprise. Beyond the section on Michael Jackson, there are serious responses to John Coltrane and Bach, World Saxophone Quartet and Mariah Carey, Sonny Rollins and Willie Mitchell. First's message is in"--Provided by publisher.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Old Friends -- Chapter Two: Killa Raymi: Festival of the Moon -- Chapter Three: A House in Cañar -- Chapter Four: The Day of the Dead -- Chapter Five: La Limpieza -- Chapter Six: A Dinner to Honor the Dead, and Us -- Chapter Seven: The Meeting -- Chapter Eight: Greeting the New Year -- Chapter Nine: Life in Cañar at Three Months -- Chapter Ten: Día de San Antonio -- Chapter Eleven: This Camera Pleases Me -- Chapter Twelve: The New Economy -- Chapter Thirteen: A Death in Cañar -- Chapter Fourteen: Carnaval -- Chapter Fifteen: Betrothal, Cañari Style -- Chapter Sixteen: Life in Cañar at Six Months -- Chapter Seventeen: A Wedding -- Chapter Eighteen: Mama Michi Goes to Canada -- Chapter Nineteen: The Way Things Work -- Chapter Twenty: A Birth in Cañar -- Chapter Twenty-One: We Walk the Inca Trail -- Chapter Twenty-Two: Saying Good-bye