Category: Local
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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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The freedom to “Choose Life” — or perhaps not
I RECENTLY GOT a specialized license plate for my car. The special plate I chose has an interlocking "N" and "C" on it, but there are also plates honoring, and…
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The Gulf oil spill disaster: Who is to blame?
FOLLOWING THE RECENT EXPLOSION and oil-pipe rupture at the British Petroleum drilling platform Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama, in an unusual display of emotion, said, "I…
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College basketball, the season now under review
JUST AS THIS WAS THE SEASON where college basketballdom discovered the wonderful innovation of stopping every game with 14 minutes left to go in the first half to spend several…
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Our new state song, I hope: Carolina in the Fall
NORTH CAROLINA NEEDS A NEW STATE SONG. Our old one (Remember it? Didn't think so.) is, well, old and, at best, forgettable. (Although my lovely and talented wife could, when…
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Why angry and aggravated Arizonans are angry and aggravated
MY SWEET, SMART MOM ASKED ME why what was going on in Arizona was going on in Arizona. "Wasn't America made up of immigrants?" she asked. It is a good…
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Destroying diversity in order to save it
YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT we would have learned this lesson in Vietnam, where a military officer once famously proclaimed that "we had to destroy the village in order to save…
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