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  • A century later, Kilmer would understand

    Joyce Kilmer was killed in combat 90 years ago. He was an infantry sergeant in World War I, for which he might well have been remembered on this recent Veterans Day. But he’s better remembered for the poem, “Trees.” So much for those who think all poets are effete sissies.

  • New media, old values

    BY EDWARD WASSERMAN

    McClatchy Newspapers ------ Twice in recent weeks big news outfits embarrassed themselves when affiliated Internet operations ignored basic principles of journalistic practice. What's apparent is that although legacy media may regard their Web sites as domesticated showcases for traditional work, heeding the same rules, the Internet is no petting zoo. It's a wilderness, and the wildlife has free-ranging ideas of their own about what they should be doing.

LETTERS

  • We’ll be watching, too

    Published on: 12/04/08

    I’m one of those “mind-numbed” Obama supporters the author of the Nov. 27 letter “I’m watching” wrote about. I just wanted to applaud this fine citizen’s (or was it true American’s?) promise to watch the Obama presidency and report on its progress. I just hope his observations are true and unbiased and that he doesn’t base his reports solely from Fox, Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter.

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DUSTY NIX COLUMN

  • Techno-aggression

    Published on: 05/20/07 DUSTY NIX dnix@ledger-enquirer.com

    A friend recounted an experience during Honors Day ceremonies at his child’s school. While kids are up there on the stage giving short acceptance speeches for this or that achievement, a woman in the audience — and surely you already know where this is headed — gets a call on her cell phone . . . which she answers, and then proceeds to carry on a conversation, oblivious to circumstances or surroundings, and above all to anybody else in the room, including the children.

EDITORIAL

  • Clueless in America

    Published on: 12/04/08

    Some overpaid corporate moguls apparently aren’t the only people desperately in need of perspective about their overall importance in the grand scheme of things, or a clue about how real people live in the real world. A few high-profile pro athletes are giving the CEOs a run for their money (so to speak) in the game of sheer arrogant cheekiness.

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