Month: March 2011
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“Aren’t you Gary Gaddy?” Lesser moments in columnar fame
Just in case you are tempted to write a column for your local newspaper — as a service to the reading public — let my experience be a cautionary tale.…
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Coaches Krzyzewski and Williams fined for comments
GREENSBORO — The Atlantic Coast Conference today announced substantial fines levied on head coaches Michael Krzyzewski and Roy Williams, of Duke University and the University of North Carolina, respectively, for…
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Top of the Pops: A pop music pop quiz (’60s edition)
Question: What ’60s song, made popular by which group, gained most of it fame from its mysteriously vulgar lyrics and was supposedly recorded just after its lead singer had dental…
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I plea bargained with the law — and the law won
I THOUGHT I HAD SCHEMED the system when my able attorney (who, for legal reasons, shall remain nameless) got me a bargain of a plea: a slap on the wrist…