And know the place for the first time. – T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding" First word I QUOTE T. S. Eliot as an epigraph for this column to underscore how magnificent, wondrous and irreplaceable the feat ...
AROUND this time of year in 1521, the explorer Ferdinand Magellan was in Philippine waters. In a little over three weeks from today, 504 years ago, he would be dead, killed by tribesmen led by ...