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Dear Editor, You just couldn’t help yourself, could you? You wrote a decent column on Jimmy Carter and then had to ruin it by taking a...

A tribute to America's greatest former president.

Jimmy Carter was the first president – nay, the first person seeking any office - for whom I cast a ballot when I became old enough to...

Wendell Pierce breathes new life into Death of a Salesman

By Ken Mask In the beginning was the word – and it was good. Then came Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman – and the word was better....

So long, Chief. Well done, good and faithful servant.

It’s not my proudest moment. It may actually be my least-proud, most cringe-worthy moment, now that I think about it. As was my wont as a...

Oops, I goofed. A hero, regardless of which war he served in. (Correction)

In the war over World War II, I am waving the white flag. I surrender! In a recent column about Gary Rasor, the 83-year-old man who died...

Paying tribute to a family hero

Gary Rasor and his wife, Yovone, had been trying to figure out how to get their large family together at their Durham home, but the...

Please leave Herschel alone - unless you're offering help.

If I have one problem, it’s that I’m too sensitive. Many people – okay, just I – tell me that all the time. After Herschel Walker...

Bob Dylan and me - there's one big difference

Bob Dylan, the musical poet laureate of the 1960s who railed against the establishment, war and greed, has been busted for selling his...

Despite the misty, water-colored memories of old people, college was never all fun and frat parties

Ah yes, college. Four years of fun, frat parties, freedom and, oh yeah, some classes sprinkled in, right? It’s a time and place where...