The gods must be crazy after all
HERE’S THE setup: A Coca-Cola bottle falls from a low-flying airplane over an undeveloped corner of Africa. How undeveloped? The local tribesman who finds...
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The medals have finally come home
U.S. Army private Corrado Piccoli was killed in France in the summer of 1944. This is, in most ways, a very old story...
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Hollywood’s blockbuster season is here: Duck.
It was over thirty years ago that the Hollywood Blockbuster Season gave us “Odorama.” Yup, 1981’s version of 3-D was a scratch and...
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Mother’s Day — by the book
If you are a little boy and want to test your mother’s love, color in the leaves on the dust jacket of her...
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Hope springs eternal: Play ball!
You might not know it from what I share in this column, but I played some pretty serious football and baseball as a...
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What it means to be Boston Strong
It has been almost two weeks now since the Boston Marathon ended in a nightmarish terrorist attack; it has been nine days since...
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Sugaring season may be short, but it’s always sweet
Most of us who have lived in Vermont for any length of time know the basics of sugaring: You have to boil about...
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Co-Hosts for COTS: Seth and Whoopi and Billy better watch out
It was two weeks ago tonight that many millions of us watched Kristen Chenoweth ask movie stars on the Oscar red carpet, “Who...
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A broken record? Not so fast.
When Apple introduced the iPod eleven years ago, it boasted that you could carry a thousand songs in your pocket. To put this...
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The Super Bowl of sibling rivalries is here
Among the Super Bowl storylines we have followed this week with a tenacity we usually reserve for nipple slips and ingenue wardrobe malfunctions...
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