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I remember Seamus Heaney and David Frost
Two who crossed my path: Heaney and Frost, remembered
I'm a celebrity hater at heart, except when two such exit on successive days: the Nobel Prize poet Seamus Heaney, followed by the TV interviewer David Frost. To one who knew them personally, as I did, they were not icons but warm and honest human beings.
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Taunt the British at your peril
This means war! (or at least a change of subject)
So you think the English are modest and self-deprecating? Did you see how Prime Minister David Cameron responded when a Russian insulted his country? That ought to show them!
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San Francisco: Free markets, free minds
The ultimate libertarian city
Many people think of San Francisco as an ultra-liberal nanny town, and a predominantly gay city, to boot. On the contrary, as I found on a recent visit, it's above all a place that welcomes contrarians and resents government.
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Germany's next generation
Neither guns nor butter, but printed words: Why the future belongs to Germany
Germans are afraid the trashy Internet media will undermine print, so they're devising methods for hooking the next generation on the printed word.
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The U.S. "intervention' in Syria
Getting a little bit pregnant in Syria
Once again, America is headed down the road to war, a skeptical public and a dissenting world community notwithstanding. And once again, the evidence justifying military action is murky at best.
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Five reasons to read women's magazines
Beyond liposuction: The serious side of women's magazines
Magazine people— even women— love to look down their noses at women's magazines. They should take another look. There's much more to women's mags lately than Kardashians and liposuction.
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When a son leaves for college
Empty Nest Syndrome, or: How could my son do this to me?
After 18 years as my devoted companion, my son Brandon has departed for college. Now it's only a matter of time before he discovers that his old man isn't the most stimulating force in the universe.
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Dr. King and the lost art of rhetoric
50 years since Dr. King's dream: What we gained, what we lost
Martin Luther King was the last great American orator and rhetorician. In our age of Twitter and Facebook, who would have the patience to pay any attention to him?
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My brilliant journalistic career
View from the summit: On making it in big-time web journalism
Who says journalists can't make it on the Internet? My budding career recently reached a new plateau.
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The boys of winter: A basketball metaphor
The fellowship of aging men, or: The last basketball game
We never spoke much and barely knew each other, yet we hung out together for years. It wasn't love but basketball that kept us together. We're guys, after all.
