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...TAD HILLS...
...afraid of going where you've never been before. There may be a tad less assurance and narrative latticework in these memory pieces than in Munro's more familiar masterworks, as she experiments with different voices (old Scottish), different settings (the 19th century), different structures (one piece lasts 61 pages). Yet all the stories ultimately come back to her master themes, of sloughing off the world one knows and trying on a new life that's unimaginable...
...stands within reach of tying the all-time Ivy League rushing record currently held by Cornell’s Ed Marinaro. While the 173 yards he needs may seem daunting, the Columbia rush defense, while markedly improved, still has its holes.Though the individual performances of veterans like senior linebacker Tad Crawford have been stellar, the Lions are allowing nearly 141 yards on the ground this season. “[Breaking the Ivy League record] is not something I think about,” Dawson said. “Columbia’s a great defense, and it?...
...Christmas" side of the debate - until the last few years, when some evangelicals and their media handmaidens made a big hairy deal about the meaning of Christmas. Like the stern secularists, they got it wrong too, insisting that Christmas was primarily a religious feast. Earlier, I was being a tad facetious about Halloween, but the professional Christians are dead serious. They want "Merry Christmas" to mean "Join with me in honoring the one true Redeemer...
...that has cost tens of thousands of U.S. and Iraqi lives and is sure to cost many more. The media were asleep at the switch during the run-up to that war and appear to be repeating the same mistake. Wake up, America. Don't let it happen again. Tad Hardee Afton, Virginia...