Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Tuesday, May 24, 2005: A Brick about Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Last Monday, Wal-Mart’s Alice Walton announced she and also her family’s foundation would build a museum surrounded by a park near downtown Bentonville, Arkansas, her companies’ headquarters. There was a clue about this a couple of weeks […]
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God shed’s over yonder
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, May 5, 2005. I attended one of the things I thought I’d never see, a National Day of Prayer service at noon today. I participated in one of the sets. As a member of the Bella Vista Recorder Consort, I played on tenor recorder a traditional “Grace” melody and […]
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Play ball!
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Monday, April 11, 2005: Ever wonder if the Electoral College and the College of Cardinals get together to play ball every so often, like Michigan and Notre Dame? -30-
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Second adolescence
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, Feb. 25, 2005. The local paper ran a feature photo this morning of an old man playing pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. I couldn’t tell what he thought of this; the blindfold covered most of his face. A photog grabbing this sort of shot is easy-pickin’s, just head to the community senior center. […]
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Wascally wascals
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005: From Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal (while these quotes are complete, they are excerpts): “Hoping to breathe new life into its animated Looney Tunes franchise and prop up the WB television network’s slumping Kids’ WB line-up, Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. is planning to launch a new […]
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Recipe for leadership
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005. News item: Walter Sheib, White House chef for over a decade, is resigning “to pursue other opportunities.” At a period when departing Cabinet officials are being replaced, amid allegations about an administration cooking the books in intelligence and Social Security, now President Bush has to worry […]