Good riddance to ‘Silent Sam,’ UNC’s toppled Civil War statue. Don’t bring him back.
Stone statues honoring the dead helped draw me to the University of North Carolina. Thomas Wolfe wrote unforgettably of his
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2013? Bring it on. To hell with superstition!
Never mind fiscal cliffs, or the fact that the real danger isn’t a Mayan-style apocalypse but a nuclear one (with
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Scandalous Halloween ostracism (G-rated animation)
"Jeffrey wasn’t sure why no one would hang around with him anymore. Maybe it was his new deodorant?" – Animals
Vis-à-vis real life
Bio History-inspired mix of suspense and satire A Jewish novel, too Solomon for real? The actual Telegram? Sen. Ribicoff’s spookish
Whitey Bulger: The mobster as an avid reader and history buff
“He would fit in well here.” – Chronicle of Higher Education commenter quoting a CNN report on just-captured mobster Whitey
Osama bin Laden’s death is a military triumph, all right—but how secure are we if dumbed-down U.S. high school students think ‘Al’ Qaeda is a person?
Almost to the day, 66 years ago, on April 28, 1045, Mussolini’s enemies shot him and kicked and spat on
A few words on tech, ‘screening’ and e-text—and Danny Bloom (1949-2032?)
I date back to the Smith Corona days of newspapers, and I can fondly recall a group named something like
Subway etiquette and the social order: Are you a Left-Stepper, Right-Stepper or Parker?
Washington, D.C., the main setting of The Solomon Scandals, is like Hollywood or an Army base. It’s a city of
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