Category: 2010
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“Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus,” a cautionary tale
ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA – I really would like to say that it wasn't my fault – but I can't. I really can't. Four years ago on the weekend of the…
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What it was was futbol — again
A WHILE BACK MY WIFE'S FIRST COUSIN (once removed), Bobo Herring, came down from Traphill up in Wilkes County to visit his eldest son. Willy Bob, who now goes by…
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Living easy in the fourth-ranked state of laziness
I GOT UP LATE yesterday morning. I was still lounging around in my pajamas, reading the saved up papers, trying to catch up on the news I missed while on…
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Plumlees’ gain majority, wrest power from Krzyzewski
DURHAM — Duke University head men's basketball coach Michael Krzyzewski's 30- year coaching reign effectively ended on Tuesday, say multiple sources close to the program. The Plumlee Family Syndicate, LLC,…
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The Decision: Gaddy to stay put at The Chapel Hill Herald
CHAPEL HILL — Swirls of speculation and unprecedented journalistic frenzy — stirred by the recent Lebronathon — came to a head this week with the growing recognition that a local…
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Documenting the undocumented workers
I HAD BEEN HEARING ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, and I wondered what all the brouhaha was about. I looked up illegal and found out it meant "not legal" — and so…
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The gravity of the law: defy it at your own peril
THE LAW OF GRAVITY IS. No point in discussing it, because you are not going to change it. You don't have to like it, but you will obey it —…
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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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