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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop The 2006-07 academic year at Eastern Mennonite University is almost history. To this observer, each seems to go by faster than the previous one. Sunday, the 89th annual commencement at EMU, will be my 36th to cover in my role as public-information officer. I’ve heard many speeches and watched…
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop While preparing for an upcoming talk, I pulled the thick black volume off the shelf, wiped dust off its leather-bound covers with my name embossed in faded gold lettering, opened it, and a flood of memories poured forth.
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop Dave and Shari Smucker were stymied. Nearly three years had passed, and it didn’t appear hopeful that Aaron, now 3 years old, would ever join their family in Harrisonburg. The couple had made several visits to the youngster’s home in Guatemala, and each time, some technicality prevented them from…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen A huge nor’easter blew in from the west on Friday, covering our little house on the prairie with booty-high drifts of snow and effectively canceling our weekly pilgrimage to the local cinema palace. Sadly, I turned to the TV set, hoping against hope that there’d be something…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Once upon a time, a foreign fairy-tale movie snuck into the Academy Awards ceremony and waltzed off with three little Oscars. Now, we all know that foreign films are only supposed to win the “Best Foreign Film” award, of course, but this one took the golden statues…
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Story by Chris Graham Jack Bedell is, by day, a poet and college professor in Louisiana. On nights and weekends, though, Bedell is a football fanatic – and his football of choice is Canadian. “Everything that we like in the modern era about the NFL, and then with the rise in popularity of the Arena…
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Story by Chris Graham I was on the phone with the phone company – in a manner of speaking. I wasn’t actually talking to a person – and that was the problem. I had two issues that needed addressing: involving service, one, and two, billing. But the options that the company’s byzantine interactive voice response…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham When Sen. Emmett Hanger, R-Mount Solon, brought up his concerns with respect to the No Child Left Behind education-accountability initiative during the news conference in 2003 in which he announced his candidacy for re-election to the Virginia General Assembly, it didn’t take long for fellow Republicans to paint a…
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