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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop There are causes celebres like Super Bowl XLI that help make the COLT winter BEARable (sorry, couldn’t resist!), but such events pale alongside a Scrapplefest. If you don’t already know that, I commend such an activity to your mental and physical well-being. I just returned from one, so I…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Back in the olden days, they just didn’t make teachers that looked like Cate Blanchett. For instance, my own third-grade teacher, Mrs. Odel, cruised up and down the aisles like a great grey battleship wrapped in a blue-and-white polka dot dress. Bad kids got whacked with a…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Yes, I’m insensitive – I’m admitting that up front. OK, so here goes. Why are the news networks treating the death of Anna Nicole like it was 9/11? I mean, seriously – she was a Playboy model.
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop Hello, poetry lovers! The 14th of February every year, It happens all over this planet. For on that day love melts the heart That’s usually taken for granite. Love, dear hearts, is more than a feeling, but it has a way of stirring other emotions in ways often past…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham “I’m going to need to see some ID.” Nothing good ever happens after you hear these words. In my case, it wasn’t that I was about to get arrested or anything. But my plans to take in the Duke-UVa. basketball game last night would have been made harder…
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop By now, anyone who’s made one or more New Year’s resolutions has either notched some benchmark toward their goal or they’ve declaring, “There’s always next year.” Believe it or else, I’m making progress on two resolutions made for 2007:
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Story by Chris Graham The headlines last summer had Arin Sime working hard behind the scenes to try to convince local Republican leaders that he could be the man to unseat incumbent Republican Sen. Emmett Hanger. And there was what was actually taking place. “That whole episode was interesting,” said Sime, a Crozet businessman who…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen If you do choose to see the new Hilary Swank movie “Freedom Writers,” be prepared for yet another dangerous journey by a noble teacher who is surrounded by savage, ‘tude-filled students, deep in the heart of the Blackboard Jungle.
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Stop the Pressses column by Chris Graham I had 51 of them the other morning. E-mails from a Detroit news station’s Web site, that is. Thirty-six had to do with horoscopes – apparently, someone out there, and you know who you are, signed me up for daily horoscopes from the site under three of my…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham This getting-up-and-going-to-work thing is going to be the death of me. We feel sorry for you. Seriously, we do. No, really. See, for the past five years, I’ve worked out of an office in my home. The idea at the outset was that as we were trying to…
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