U. S. News and World Report

U. S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT
 
 
U. S. News & World Report  is an American media company that publishes news, opinion, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.  Founded as a news weekly magazine in 1933, U.S. News transitioned to primarily web-based publishing in 2010.  U.S. News is best known today for its influential Best Colleges and Best Hospitals rankings, but it has expanded its content and product offerings in education, health, money, careers, travel, and cars.  The editorial staff of U.S. News & World Report is based in Washington, D.C. and Brian Kelly has been the chief content officer since April 2007.  The company is owned by media proprietor Mortimer Zuckerman.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
 
 

The main complaint seems to be J. Reuben Silverbirdaffiliation with the Unification Church – a/k/a the Moonies – where he serves as an “Ambassador for Peace” in their affiliated group, the Unification Peace Federation.  Silverbird has also engaged in some minor myth-making.  However, he has also reportedly appeared at the 90-year-old International Spiritualist Federation and has regularly given ceremonial blessings at the Nobel Peace Institute in Oslo, Norway – hence, the Norwegian website.  And he has been on the cover of a major news magazine, U.S. News and World Report – no mean feat. 

 

(August 2013)

 

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A few months ago, I was at The Book Bag, the great used-book store down here, and the owner asked me if I liked National Geographic, and I said sure. She then offered me to sell me numerous bound volumes for $20 – but only if we took all of them! She also had Time and Newsweek and Life and some U. S. News and World Report and even a couple of volumes from an old set of Encyclopædia Britannica. As I have mentioned before, I am not driving these days; and Shawanna’s husband Earl was steady carrying boxes out to his car on a dolly while I was shopping for books. A couple of times when he took a break, the owner ran back there and said, no, these also; and those over there. (At a later date, she had found another half dozen volumes and gave me those also!)
 
The magazines are professionally bound, mostly in green, and look like they had come from a public library or university library somewhere. Although there are no library cards or anything like that, some of the individual issues are marked “Gulfport East High School”. The National Geographic volumes date back to the 1940’s and extend to the very end of the 1990’s, including those from the month of my birth (May 1951). I don’t think I have all of the volumes, but I haven’t put them into order yet, so I cannot say for sure.
 
The magazine volumes cover most of two full bookcases, and I really didn’t know where I could fit them. Then it occurred to me to create a library in the front room off the over-sized living room; we had never really found a use for that room, other than to sit the china cabinets in there, but I had them moved to the side of the dining room off the kitchen (the only large window in the house is in that room). So far, I have three bookshelves in there, including all of the magazines; and I am planning to move the rest of the bookshelves into the library over the next month or so, probably including the paperbacks that are housed in open media cabinets in our bedroom these days.
 
I have half a mahogany dining room table in the library already that I inherited from Charlie, along with eight chairs; they went through Katrina but came out in pretty decent shape after we had them refinished by a local company. The other half of the table was broken accidentally post-Katrina, so at our big yard sale, we sold that half plus the drop leaf to someone who was restoring an old boat. That half a table I have only ever used as a bar during parties; but I figured that it would work well as an old-fashioned library table like those you see in movies, with four or maybe even six chairs beside it.
 
Post-Katrina, the bottom shelves of all of my bookshelves have always been used for a row of record albums; otherwise, I would have run out of room for them long ago. The upper shelves are no good for that, but the bottom shelves work out fine. There is one bookshelf left in my office that is also going to the library; pretty much everything else in that room is for the albums and CD’s. Hopefully, one more record rack from Hobby Lobby will cover the rest of the collection, including the 300 or so albums that went through Katrina that I have still not cleaned up.
 
(Year 10 Review)
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