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		<title>Missing the Boat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received a note from the Field Museum yesterday advertising the coming of a new exhibit on gold; and it brought to mind John Huston’s 1948 film ‘Treasure of Sierra Madre’.  I’m sure the current speculation in gold was at least in part the impetus for the show; so a few of the lines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Look</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most modern Americans certainly do value gems; but perhaps we do so in a loss of innocence.  That is, while our distant forefathers usually valued gems for their medicinal and spiritual qualities, we, unimaginative drudges that we are, usually value them for only their beauty and rarity. &#8211; grouping the medicinal and spiritual qualities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurstsberwynjewelers.com/wordpress/?p=211</link>
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		<title>Maarten &amp; Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To Recut or Not to Recut?  That is the Question.
I hope the shade of William Shakespeare will forgive the license I’ve taken with Hamlet’s soliloquy; but I had to do it simply because of its relevance.  While diamonds are, in fact, older than dirt (how does 4 billion years old sound?), cutting them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurstsberwynjewelers.com/wordpress/?p=210</link>
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		<title>The Crystal Ball</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’d love to have one!  Unfortunately, humanity’s long desire to predict the future is not within my grasp; and despite the huxters urging you to buy gold or sell gold based on some ‘predictable’ future, their knowledge of the future is as severely limited as mine.  So let’s see what seem to me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurstsberwynjewelers.com/wordpress/?p=209</link>
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		<title>A Rose Indeed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While at jewelry trade shows in Las Vegas last week, our Kathy was fortunate enough to attend a round table that included Kathy Rose.  If you’ve heard of her, I’ll bet it was in connection with Bravo Television’s fashion reality show ‘Launch My Line’.   If you’re not familiar with her name, let [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurstsberwynjewelers.com/wordpress/?p=208</link>
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		<title>Simple Gifts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know it may seem hard to conceive of jewelry as a simple gift; and in some ways it’s not.  On the other hand, the best of jewelry gifts usually signify love, a simple gift we gladly give to others.  Take, for instance, the following story.
Back in February one of our long time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurstsberwynjewelers.com/wordpress/?p=207</link>
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		<title>Silent Communications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may recall, Edward, Prince of Wales, abdicated the throne of the British Empire to marry a divorced American, Wallis Warfield Simpson. It rocked Britain in the 1930s; and as recently as November of last year, news about Edward &#8211; claiming that he had sought to deny Elizabeth II the throne &#8211; made the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurstsberwynjewelers.com/wordpress/?p=206</link>
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		<title>Because of you, Tony Bennett</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m not sure what a guy nearly 84 years old has to do with jewelry, other than the fact that we have (on short term consignment) a pair of 14 karat gold cuff links Tony gave to Bob Hope as a “thank you” gift. It was in recognition of the huge lift Hope had given [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurstsberwynjewelers.com/wordpress/?p=204</link>
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		<title>The Elixir of Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than century ago Mark Twain quipped that “It is every man’s secret ambition to be able to outsmart fish and women.” In acknowledging that men and women, though sharing a common language, are often separated by (for men, anyway) a gulf in understanding, his wording was classic; but the idea was far from original, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurstsberwynjewelers.com/wordpress/?p=200</link>
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		<title>Redactus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a reader of this column you are unquestionably alert to the fact that our English language is constantly in flux.  Nonetheless, I was somewhat taken aback the other day to hear “redact” (an anglicization of the past participle, “redactus”, of the Latin verb “redigere” &#8211; meaning to collect or drive back) used in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurstsberwynjewelers.com/wordpress/?p=199</link>
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