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Feb.20.2013
An avid reader as a child, horror author Vincent Hobbes grew up nurtured by parents who encouraged his creativity. His dad used to read to him, Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls, over and over. In high school, he had two wonderful teachers who motivated him and gave him the...
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Jan.30.2013
Harper’s Magazine, February 2013
The price exacted for good journalism is, occasionally, a cynical screed. Reporters look at events and public personalities with a practiced, often jaundiced eye and, I suppose an occasionally overly critical piece is to be expected.
This is the case with...
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Jan.14.2013
When President Obama met with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai on Friday, all eyes were on an endgame for troop withdrawal. The focus was on the president's stated goal, as The New York Times reports, that effective this spring U.S. troops would "play only a supporting role in Afghanistan." http://www...
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Jan.10.2013
Lance Armstrong's confession was there all along, if you knew where and how to look. As a result, I suggested we all consider forgiving Armstrong for his past transgressions and try to move on with what cycling will become in the wake of the Lance Armstrong era, which occupied our...
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Jan.03.2013
My man Tamim Ansary on Afghanistan and his new book Game Without Rules
http://huff.to/VlmuYv
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Dec.29.2012
My husband and I just returned from a week’s vacation in the LA area to spend the holidays with our four children. It was a fun filled, exciting, and full of love kind of week. We spent a couple days with each of the four families (my husband, Tom hates this part: carrying luggage into the...
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Dec.21.2012
Now that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down the blather of the pundits explaining how we got into this pointless mess is ramping up. The best answer, as in many questions, is to be found in the classics, and in this case in Homer. After the Twin Towers fell we were a wounded giant,...
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Dec.16.2012
Of this I have no doubt: the U.S. urgently needs meaningful gun control. I support the four-point platform of theLaw Center To Prevent Gun Violence shared in Benjamin Van Houten’s Yes Magazine piece (written after Representative Gabrielle Gifford’s shooting in 2011)....
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Dec.08.2012
Survivors and their children: this description could apply to many countries today, but it fits Cambodia perhaps more than most. I learned this as we explored the Cambodian countryside, small towns, and villages, as well as the cities and famous...
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Nov.20.2012
Author's note: The following disclaimer is intended for the right-leaning reader, who may believe that analyzing the behavior of a highly decorated American military leader is akin to wrapping a healthy Caucasian infant in a gasoline-soaked American flag and setting the bundle aflame...while...
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