I rail against distance learning, laptops in classrooms, PowerPoint, and other trends toward too much technology in university life, yet yesterday I made an audition lecture cd for the Teaching Company. If the sample audiences around the country to whom TC will now send it like UD's lecture, she'll prepare a TC lecture series. Instead of lecturing to fifty or so people every semester, she'll have an audience that spans the nation. She'll become a distance instructor. Big time.

A Letter from Key West To My Friend David, In Memory of his Sister, Eve Sedgwick   The southernmost sky is strange at ten at night,Still mildly blue with midday clouds and a calmWind that lifts the clouds to show a star dead white,Dead white and barely there above a palm's black head. The three macaws who shriek behind the palms have gone to bed And all the traffic in the tropics pauses for the moon. Your sister, you said last week, will be dead soon. II