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Sometimes, death is a blindside hit. When it comes at the end of a long life as it did recently for 86-year-old Ed McMahon, you are saddened by it but not particularly surprised. When it comes after a debilitating illness, as it did recently for 62-year-old Farrah Fawcett, you have time to brace yourself against it.
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"The best and quickest way to get the drywall out is to go after the builder"
GERMANTOWN — Before there were parades, fireworks, hot dogs and flag-waving on July Fourth, or an American flag for that matter, there was a committee of five men.
"There are one or two subjects I have to ask you not to raise with Alice Cooper," his publicist warns me. "I hope you'll understand."
Sad to say, every generation for the past century has known its own war — wars that have touched so many millions through the loss or traumatization of relatives, friends or fellow citizens. "My war" was America's in Indo-China, centered on Vietnam. Abhorrence of what my country, the United States, was doing to the region caused me, and many in my generation, to choose the life of an expatriate. ...
POINT PLEASANT — Whitney Duncan, a finalist on the television music competition “Nashville Star,” will take the stage at Point Pleasant Riverfront Park this evening.
POINT PLEASANT — Whitney Duncan, a finalist on the television music competition “Nashville Star,” will take the stage at Point Pleasant Riverfront Park this evening. Duncan, this year’s headlining...
Established in 1957, the British Computer Society ... Teneo is an infrastructure optimization company, p ...
Sometimes, death is a blindside hit. When it comes at the end of a long life as it did last week for 86-year-old Ed McMahon, you are saddened by it but not particularly surprised. When it comes after a debilitating illness, as it did last week for 62-year-old Farrah Fawcett, you have time to brace yourself against it.
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