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Column by Jim Bishop While everyone else is decking the halls and wrecking the walls, yours truly needs to climb up on the rooftop and unclog my Chinese chimney so Santa won’t catch the Hong Kong flue (I’m well-sooted for the job).
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen If you’re a fan of those Coke commercials featuring cuddly polar bears, “The Golden Compass” will be your holiday pleasure. But if you’re grownup and just too weary to invest in another kid fantasy franchise, you’re liable to walk out like I did, thinking: So what?
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Sensing the time was ripe to stab Caesar in the back, over half the print film critics in America dissed Jerry Seinfeld’s “Bee Movie,” now buzzing about in neighborhood cinema hives from coast to coast.
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Slathered with high-falutin’ talk and dripping with shaky history, “Elizabeth: The Golden Years” sails into Staunton, drops anchor at the Visulite, and tells the glorious tale of England as only those Brits can tell it.
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Story by Jim Bishop The Alumni Association of Eastern Mennonite University honored two of its graduates Sunday for their work in reflecting the school’s vision, mission and values. Dr. Ingida Asfaw, 67, of Grosse Pointe, Mich., a 1962 EMU graduate with a double major in biology and chemistry, and originally from Ethiopia, received EMU’s 2007…
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Column by Jim Bishop This weakly EML (English as a Maltreated Language) experimentation generates considerable reader response, and I’m grateful.
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen The leaves begin to fall to earth. The air turns crisp. ‘Tis time for a deluge of Relationship Movies – our autumnal harvest of Sensitive Young People getting their hearts stomped on, valiantly facing unspeakable angst, revealing their innermost secrets, and in the end finding their One…
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Story by Chris Graham The tale of the legendary origins of a mysterious marine-research institute is the focus of a new novel by Bridgewater College professor Ed Huffstetler.
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Story by Jim Bishop Alumni of Eastern Mennonite University are sending their children to the school in numbers that far surpass most colleges nationwide.
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Story by Jim Bishop “A teacher in whose classroom wit and wisdom vied for supremacy.” That was one of many tributes paid to G. Irvin (“G.I.”) Lehman at a recognition and retirement dinner held in his honor May 1, 1980 at Eastern Mennonite University. Dr. Lehman died Monday at Oak Lea Nursing Home in Harrisonburg….
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