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I bought a grape yesterday

A few days ago, while watching the documentary "America in Primetime,'' I was struck by an interesting comment made by one of its participants.“Yesterday I bought a grape,” he said.He’d made the claim that primetime television, with its extended long-form shows, such as "The Sopranos'' ...

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Tomorrow marks the 60th anniversary of day Uniontown native Gen. George C. Marshall accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.He was pictured on the front page of the Uniontown Evening Standard on Dec. 11, 1953, with the caption, in part, saying “The ceremony was marred by noisy ...

Trouble has way of finding Zimmerman

George Zimmerman is back in the news. Trouble just has a way of finding him. Since his arrest for the murder of an unarmed teenager, heĢƵ become a household name. The ex-neighborhood watchman needs somebody to watch him.Since he was acquitted in that case in July, heĢƵ had numerous brushes ...

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ItĢƵ beginning to look a lot like, well, Thanksgiving, everywhere we go.That means the start of the Christmas season, with its long lines at checkout counters, and heavy Internet traffic – filled with shoppers eagerly hoping to make those great deals.But long before there was anything ...

The perils of free speech gone wild

U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., is facing an unspeakable tragedy. The sorrow caused when a parent outlives a child, I’m told, is excruciating and unthinkable. InhofeĢƵ 52 year-old son, Perry, died in a plane crash last week. He genuinely deserves our condolences.Yet, thereĢƵ something ...

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"Another banker arrested,'' read the bold front-page headline atop the Feb. 8, 1952 edition of the Pittsburgh Press.The Press reported that there had been a “wave” of bank embezzlements in the region within the past year and a half that reached a total of $3.5 million.Those were the ...