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January 1st, 2012
(1915-2011)
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” (Matthew 5:9)
Lately I’ve been thinking about the Beatitudes, as well as ...
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December 31st, 2011
(1942 – 2011)
When Clarence Clemons joined the E Street Band in October 1972, I was six months old. He was just beginning his musical ...
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December 30th, 2011
For most of the public history of alcoholism and drug addiction all the way back to Noah, the general impression has been that it is ...
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December 28th, 2011
(1955-2011)
Steve Jobs was never a corporate man. The early personal computer industry was an outgrowth of the radical back-to-the-land ethos and even the name "Apple" ...
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December 27th, 2011
(1932-2011)
Could there have been anyone more gorgeous, more sumptuous, and more glamorous to a girl growing up in the ‘50s and 60s than Elizabeth Taylor, ...
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December 26th, 2011
As the year draws to a close, we're reminded of many significant endings in 2011. Here's a short list of what got our (and the ...
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January 19th, 2011
(1936 - 2010)
It is fitting that the first film Dennis Hopper appeared in was Rebel Without A Cause, yet it is even more appropriate that he was ...
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January 11th, 2011
(1930-2010)
I'm 7 years old and the Yankees are king. It seems as if they never lose and I hate them with a passion. ...
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January 6th, 2011
(1925-2010)
"We're like sisters!" the big ugly woman with the Bronx baritone replied caustically and I laughed. I laughed so hard I had to roll off ...
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January 5th, 2011
Alexander McQueen (1969 - 2010), Mark Linkous (1962 - 2010) and Andrew Koenig (1968 - 2010)
These people, who had contributed much to the world; who could be gratified by the lives they had touched; who seemed to have a passion and a calling; who had more accomplishments to point at ...
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January 4th, 2011
The passing of Barbara Billingsley (1915-2010), Peter Graves (1926-2010) and Leslie Nielsen (1926-2010)
Bob Hope, at his peak, was considered one of the funniest men on the planet. But show his performances to someone from the generations ...
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December 31st, 2010
(1919-2010)
Holden Caulfield's Moments of Grace
The spiritual wisdom of Salinger's famous teen
Midway through J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, notices ...
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December 30th, 2010
(1973-2010)
Hospice.
The word sounds ominous enough when it's spoken in reference to an older person, but when it's used to describe the dying months of a 37-year-old woman, it ...
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December 28th, 2010
(1934 - 2010)
After college I had to have my own apartment. Like so many other young women, I saw this independence as an exhilarating and gratifying rite ...
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December 31st, 2009
(1930-2009)
Did any among us not grow up with Disney? Children of the 40s marked their years with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, ...
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December 31st, 2009
A former CBS employee recalls the most trusted name in news
Long before Twitter or Drudge or Huffington or Gawker, there was another one-word media monolith, bigger and more influential than any one else.
Walter.
Television viewers didn’t ...
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December 31st, 2009
A near-Irishman salutes Frank McCourt (1930-2009)
Also check out the latest Busted Halo Cast about Frank McCourt.
Deanna, my ex-girlfriend, grew up in Boston. Recalling her early home life, she ...
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December 31st, 2009
Remembering Robert Novak (1931-2009)
On a sunny-cold February day in 2001, I drove 70 miles to an Indianapolis hotel to pick up the journalist Robert Novak, whom I would ...
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December 31st, 2009
And You Probably Don't Know His Name
Quick — can you give me the latest on the divorce drama between Jon & Kate Gosselin? Or why Paula Abdul isn't going to be ...
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December 31st, 2009
(1975 - 2009)
Hallett during better timesI love a good rags-to-riches story. A vampire spin-off is not the usual definition of riches, ...
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