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Month: August 2008

  • An Olympic collection of odds ‘n’ ends

    BEIJING, via satellite — As the XXIX Olympiad has drawn to close, I can now see the many lessons that I have learned from watching the dedicated and hardworking athletes…

  • Great Dates in “Local Voices” Column History: The Thursday Edition

    MANY COLUMNISTS, perhaps due to what some see as undue adulation that columnists receive from the reading public, become vain, self-centered, ego-centric and can only think “I, me, mine.” Well,…

  • Just two songs away from Galax

    GALAX, Va. — No, this is not going to be one of those lame “What I Did Last Summer” essays like the ones you had to write on the first…

  • Biofuelishness: A darker shade of green

    SOMETIMES THE CURE is worse than the disease; sometimes the side effects are more deadly than the malady itself. I like the concept of renewable energy in general and converting…

  • The Top Ten Liszt

    (Special to GaryGaddy.com, a column heretofore unpublished, but now, available to my web-only readers only, at no additional cost.) A carefully and scientifically constructed compilation of the top Liszts in…