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You could call James Storm a TNA Original. You’d be right in more ways than one. “That’s me in real life, man. That ain’t no role. That’s me in real life. Drinking my beer and beating people up,” said Storm, one-half of the TNA world tag-team champions as Beer Money Inc. with Robert Roode.
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When Barack Obama took the oath of office as the 44th president of the United States on Jan. 20, I was thinking of Colonel Frank Christmas. Colonel Christmas, an African-American veteran who had fought for his country through two wars, mostly in segregated units, was the oldest member of a 1961 class of newly-sworn-in Foreign Service…
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The Women’s Forum in Harrisonburg is presenting a talk by James Madison University public-relations veteran Milla Sue Wisecarver on Thursday at 11:45 a.m.
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Column by Carl Larsen In recent years, Clint Eastwood has given us a pretty grim universe. He wins a lot of Oscars, but the movie world he creates as a director is not exactly full of sweetness and light. “Mystic River” (2003) was heart-wrenching, “Million Dollar Baby,” the following year, even gloomier, then came his…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] People called Waynesboro High School last fall insisting that they had to be wrong, that the Night of the Superstars was going on, they just wanted to know when and what time. But Marvin Ward took 2007 off to focus on a new business venture. “The reason was time,” said…
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Column by Carl Larsen For some reason, the name Ernie Davis has been all but forgotten by all but the most rabid football fans. So a film like “The Express,” currently playing at the Colonial Mall Cinemas in Staunton, comes along at the right time to remind us of his accomplishments and tell a whacking…
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Column by Bruce Kesler Read AFP editor Chris Graham’s Counterpoint. My friend, editor Chris Graham, and I disagree on many things, but agree on the importance of speaking our minds and giving others their due listening. However, in 2008, the major media has particularly fallen down on this obligation. There are two major causes: Most…
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Column by Steven Sisson Is the McCain-Palin campaign fueling racism, hatred and divisiveness? Of course, the answers to the question are yes, yes, yes, but wait one cotton-picking minute, Blue Dog! Calling the Republican presidential nominee John McCain The Manchurian Candidate conjures images of a 1960s Vietnam prisoner of war being brainwashed and collaborating with…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The last time Virginia went Democratic for president, gas was 25 cents, The Beatles were about to make their debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” Ronald Reagan was still a Democrat, and Brian Moran was 5 years old. “A lot has changed, but this year, Virginia is going to elect…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I’ve known Alice Leonhardt for years, but I didn’t know this about her. She wrote, illustrated and self-published her first book at age 7. Which puts me about 25 years behind her, and that’s not accounting for my lack of illustration skills. Starting from a very early age, obviously, then,…
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