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Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock DATELINE MIRTHOLOGY — With a maneuver some describe as canny, the Greenland School District annexed Fayetteville Public Schools, officials with both announced Wednesday morning. The new body will be called the Greater Greenland School District and will use the facilities and personnel of both. Thus, three high schools will educate […]
Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sports … the thrill of victory … and the agony of defeat … the human drama of athletic competition. … This is ABC’s Wide World of Sports!” — Stanley Ralph Ross, famously intoned by recently deceased Jim McKay. Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock II of […]
Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock I of II Decades never start on a zero or one and never end on a nine or zero (depending on how you count). The 1960s, for example, was (not were) approximately 1967 to 1974. Beginning in my 20s — which started when I was 22, the week after I […]
Book report: An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England, by Brock Clarke Panning a novel that I devoured in 50- to 80-page chunks approaches being disingenuous. Perhaps an An Arsonist’s Guide, released in fall 2007 to overall glowing reviews (though readers on amazon.com gave it only three of five stars), amused me even […]
Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock NEW ORLEANS — You had to be here, you have to go here, to fully realize what’s going on here. If that is true then what of the Indonesian tsunami that began Dec. 26, 2004? Do you have to go to Iowa to understand its massive flood this month? You […]
NEW ORLEANS — The second speaker for the columnists conference was Jarvis DeBerry of the Times-Picayune. He had a heck of a column Sunday showing how this month’s flooding in Iowa and The Storm (Katrina-Rita of 2005) have at least this much in common: deliberate damage to wetlands to benefit humanity in what has become […]