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There ought to be a law. A law that would protect voters and taxpayers from candidates who just have too much trouble making up their minds. Is there a recent example? Funny that you ask ....
Modified: 11/06/09 07:01:11 PM
Love and oysters have always been closely linked. When Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, sprang forth from the sea on an oyster shell, she promptly gave birth to Eros and "aphrodisiac" was born.
Modified: 11/06/09 07:01:08 PM
The Golden LEAF Foundation was a good idea and still is.
Modified: 11/06/09 07:01:06 PM
Editorial: Perhaps the forecasts on the potential of the Durham Performing Arts Center, which opened last November, were a little conservative. But that's OK.
Modified: 11/07/09 04:52:24 AM
Editorial: Was it a spontaneous moment of lunacy, or something more complicated? That's but one of the questions authorities at Fort Hood, Texas, will be trying to answer in the coming days, or weeks.
Modified: 11/07/09 04:52:55 AM
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As the mother of a bright and beautiful son whose life has been changed forever by schizophrenia, I offer tremendous gratitude to the doctors, nurses, social workers and direct-care staff of Dorothea Dix Hospital.
A couple weeks before Veterans Day, I went down to the World War II Memorial on the Mall to join Bob and Elizabeth Dole and a group of elderly soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen from her hometown of Salisbury, N.C., who had been flown to Washington that morning to get their first view of the nation's tribute to the troops who helped defeat Hitler's forces.
No accord, thankfully, on climate
Craftsman Powell's gift of jab
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