Tallahassee
The place where you spend your formative years can draw you back with the pull of a magnet to metal. Or it can repel, the desire to divorce yourself from…
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April 17, 2012
Wendy
Wendy at Cafe 640Last September, my friend Wendy was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma. Breast cancer.Her mammogram nine months earlier was clear."That's how fast it can happen," she wrote on…
April 7, 2012
Killed in the name of honor
"All citizens are equal before law and are entitled to equal protection of law. There shall be no discrimination on the basis of sex alone." That's what Pakistan's constitution says. But…
March 22, 2012
Nine years
The United States invaded Iraq nine years ago. On this anniversary, more violence.A string of deadly car bombings rocked Iraq Tuesday. Forty-three people died; 206 others were injured. The dead…
March 20, 2012
The little master makes history
A legend? An icon? In India, he is God.And on Friday, God made India very proud. Even the prime minister said so.The nation of 1 billion-plus erupted in celebration as cricketer…
March 16, 2012
Homs Rules
Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez.On this day in 1971, Hafez Assad became president of Syria. More than 30 years later, the world is witnessing tragedy unfold in Syria at the…
March 12, 2012
Iran's first Oscar
Perhaps I should have gone to see "The Artist" Saturday night. After all, it won the Oscar for best picture last night. But I saw "A Separation" instead.It was an…
February 27, 2012
Journalism and courage
Today, journalists are mourning the deaths of two of their own.Marie Colvin of London'sSunday Times and French journalist Remi Olchik were killed Wednesday in thebesieged Syrian city of Homs. …
February 22, 2012
A new Guiness record!
Thomas Oliver and Melissa Turnerwere part of the record-setting crowd.I just read that the Tybee Island polar bear plunge on New Year’s Day officially broke a Guinness World Record."Guinness World…
February 13, 2012
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