Month: June 2010
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Living by John Wooden’s five-and-a-half-point creed
WHEN A GREAT MAN DIES, great words get written about him. Earlier this month, at the age of 99, a truly great man, John Wooden, died. The legendary coach of…
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Exterminating the insidious evil of “We” and “They”
IN MAY OF 2000 my wife and I spent three weeks in Sarajevo, courtesy of the U.S. State Department. Four and a half years after the end of hostilities in…
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Mister Unmannerly’s Guide to all Manner of Mannerlessness
I HATE TO ADMIT IT but sometimes I read Miss Manners. (Of course, sometimes I read just about everything, so don’t be too shocked.) I will tell you this: Miss…
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Some (relatively) good news on the Gulf oil spill
FIRST OFF, LET ME STATE that I am not a petro-geologist or a marine biologist or an expert of any kind on the effects of petroleum on the ocean’s flora…
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