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...only thing, they continued, that can "cleanse the campus" is "glorious, vigorous Long Johnson action...
...been a little over a week since 13 people were gunned down on the U.S. Army base at Fort Hood. The impact of the killings still reverberates from the base in the heart of Killeen, Texas. Now, the start of a glorious fall weekend promises this central Texan town a hint of normalcy, but true normal - weekend football, shopping, yard work and worship - will take longer to return, especially to the community's Muslims...
...pregnant and forces him to give up fowl thievery for a safer profession. Now he's a newspaper columnist (which hardly qualifies as safer), but he longs to return to the hunt, specifically to Boggis, Bunce and Bean's farms, all of which are laid out in glorious, tempting symmetry just across from the front door of the Fox's "finest quality indigenous" old-growth tree house...
...west side of Killeen, Texas, is like countless other places in America's heartland, freshly carved out of prairie pastures with wide streets in bucolic neighborhoods like Sunflower Estates and Bridgewood. But on a glorious, cloudless fall day, the flags at the home-sales center nearby were at half-staff in honor of the 13 fallen at Fort Hood, victims of a gunman whose deadly attack was stopped thanks to a petite, long-haired, blond mom from the neighborhood...
...soon as I envision this admittedly distant prospect, though, I can’t help but feel a measure of nostalgia, already, mixed with my exhilaration. Last summer, I spent a glorious week in Dublin at the National Library of Ireland, reading dusty volumes of 18th-century pamphlets for my thesis. In the world after Google Books has conquered all libraries and the Book Espresso Machine has delivered them all to bookstores around the country, will such trips even be necessary...