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Updated: October/11/2009
Columbus' peculiar holiday
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THIS year, Columbus Day falls not only on the second Monday in the month but on Oct. 12, the very date in 1492 that Christopher Columbus' sailors first saw one of the islands in what today are called the Bahamas.
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Updated: October/04/2009
It's not yet time to write newspapers' obituaries
NEWSPAPERS may be down but they're not out. They've been battered and bloodied, but in the tradition of good club fighters made famous by Rocky Balboa, they know the key to winning is getting up one more time than they get knocked down.
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Updated: April/21/2009
Susan Boyle gobsmacked us all
BY NOW everyone has seen and, more important, heard Susan Boyle, the dowdy Scottish woman who wowed the audience and judges of Britain's Got Talent, an America's Got Talent clone based in the United Kingdom.
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Updated: March/28/2009
People are all atwitter
TWITTER is a brilliant name for a social networking Internet site that limits posts to a succession of tremulous, chirping sounds. And what could be better than "tweet," a weak chirp, for the posts themselves, each containing no more - and frequently less - substance than can be shoehorned into 140 characters.
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Updated: December/18/2008
If it looks too good to be true, it probably isn't
PEACE on Earth, good will toward men are nice sentiments, as long as you remember to keep a sharp eye out for the sharks and grifters especially evident this time of year. These folks love the holiday spirit, mostly because there are so many more unsuspecting dupes shopping than at any other time.
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Updated: December/11/2008
Quitting's easy; I did it hundreds of times
PRESIDENT-elect Barack Obama has scores of people who do nothing but give him advice. Choosing the next secretary of state? He had a team for that. Need a United Nations ambassador? He's covered. White House chef? Probably has at least a dozen folks working on that one. What dog to get daughters Malia and Sasha? Practically everyone has an opinion on that.
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Updated: November/27/2008
Complain tomorrow; today just give thanks
WHEN I was growing up in Massachusetts, Thanksgiving was something more than the opening act for Black Friday, the first official shopping day before Christmas.
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