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Dad learns by taking turn in the kitchen
The question in our household was never "What's cooking?" but rather, "Who's cooking?" And the answer, if you interviewed any member of my family, was never me.
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Partnerships lead the way to future
The past two decades have made one fact absolutely clear. Winston-Salem is not, and never will be, the same community it once was. But it also is critical that Winston-Salem move from lamenting a past that once was to embracing a vision for what we can, together, create.
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What to do when phone rings at 3 a.m.
We've been hearing a lot lately about phones ringing at 3 a.m.
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Second chances hard to give, but worth it
Second chances are hard to come by these days. It seems that we're a little less forgiving, whether of politicians, bosses or employees, or even family and friends. If someone screws up, blows it or lets us down, we don't seem very willing to let things go.
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Car culture makes MINI owner feel shifty
I consider myself kind of a cultural guy, equally at home in the worlds of film, theater, dance, music and fine art. I know what I like to see on a stage, or in a museum or concert hall, and I am secure in my knowledge of that world. But when it comes to the car culture that dominates the South and much of America, I feel like the equivalent of a flat tire.
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Education can be valuable and isolating
My father remembers the day his grandfather died. Only 9 years old at the time, he was standing in the yard of his grandfather's farmhouse with other family members. They were waiting for the death they knew was coming to claim the man stricken with pneumonia in an age before antibiotics. People were weeping, and my father said he wept too, as much to fit in as in mourning. His own father walked up to him and said, "Jack, we won't get to go to Granddaddy's anymore."
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Burmese situation is close to home
Recent events in Burma coupled with the latest Rambo movie brought up memories of how small the world really was around Winston-Salem in the 1960s. It has become so much smaller since then. Burma's connection to our town began with a trip to that Southeast Asian country by two Wake Forest College families in 1959 and continued through the 1970s with periodic stints at Wake Forest by one of the world's foremost experts on George Orwell, who was a prominent Burmese educator. He also was most fascinating to those of us who were just children at the time. Perhaps the fact that he and his wife were considerably less than 5 feet tall made them all the more approachable.
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Courageous: Many children with dyslexia are left behind by system that can't cope with problem
SAN DIEGO -- How's this for a brainteaser?
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LAME DUCK: Some of us need to worry
WASHINGTON -- President Bush seems ready to pack up and move back to Texas. There he was last weekend, singing a jolly farewell at the Gridiron Club dinner, a fancy gathering for journalists and their big-shot sources.
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LAME: Without U.S. follow-through, Annapolis process languishes
WASHINGTON -- The Annapolis peace conference last November was a good moment for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. She seemed to be getting serious, finally, about using American diplomacy to push for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement whose basic parameters are understood by everyone -- but which requires U.S. follow-through to make it happen.
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And the winner is ... not the Oscar show
They handed out the Academy Awards not long ago, those little golden statuettes that I craved winning throughout my Hollywood career as a producer. And I lost again.
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A fundamental doctrine of women
The widely publicized 2007 case of the Saudi 19-year-old who, after being gang-raped by seven men, was initially sentenced to six months in jail and 200 lashes shocked American sensitivities. Concern for the rights of women has evolved from focusing on an American problem in the 1970s to condemning traditional Muslim culture in the 21st century.
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Plentiful water is worth protecting
Water is plentiful in Forsyth County, but the growth of our state's population and the current 6-year-old drought have highlighted the need to protect and conserve our water supply. The Journal has begun to address the issue of water pollution by calling attention to six polluted creeks in Davidson County that feed High Rock Lake. Davidson County intends to begin a clean-up program of these creeks, anticipating that the state may eventually impose strict water-quality regulations. While these efforts to bring attention to the importance of water quality are laudable, they quietly omit calling attention to one of the greatest offenders of creek pollution -- the city of Winston-Salem.
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Memories echo in house grown too big
My house feels too big. Not like a suit hangs on you after you've lost some weight, or a hat feels too big to sit right on your head. Just that there doesn't seem to be enough of me to go around all of these rooms.
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Act early to get ready for digital TV
You have one year from Sunday to get ready. By law, on Feb. 17, 2009, all TV broadcasters must upgrade to digital and stop broadcasting their old analog signals. Nearly 20 million American households will be affected. Are you in one of them?
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Significant gift is worth preserving
In those rare cases in life when you find yourself on the receiving end of a significant philanthropic gesture, what should you do? I, among the many hundreds of others who have attended Nancy Reynolds Elementary School in northwest Stokes County, think that it is time to say "thank you" -- by asking the Stokes County Board of Education to commit the necessary resources to preserving this incredible, valuable and unique gift to its community from the R.J. Reynolds family.
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Pleasurable time with the morning dogs
If you're out in your car early some morning, and a figure suddenly looms out of the half-darkness wrestling two leashes attached to two frisky dogs, that's probably me.
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A modest proposal to cure bleary eyes, 'Super Bowl flu'and maybe even the economy DAY AFTER
Picture this: Today, the day after the Super Bowl, is a recognized holiday. You have the day off, enjoying a three-day weekend, instead of straggling bleary-eyed to work or school after a Super Bowl party that lasted late into the night. Millions of partygoers did not have to rush home after the game. The roads last night were safer, as folks spent the night with friends or relatives or at least sobered up some before driving. Sounds good, right?
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WSTA needs to attract more riders
Most Journal readers do not use the Winston-Salem Transit Authority's services. We think that's a shame, and we have some ideas for changes that might encourage more people to ride the buses.
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Public opinion, party leaders beginning to find their way to the same destinations FAVORITES
WASHINGTON -- Heading into Tuesday's unprecedented day of voting in two dozen states, a degree of order is finally emerging in the dramatic races for the presidential nominations of both parties.
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Honor Guard recognizes fallen warriors
Veterans Day comes once a year. Memorial Day comes once a year. But the volunteer members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars District 11 Memorial Honor Guard remembered and honored their fellow veterans on more than 100 days last year.
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'Blizzard' catches Northerner unprepared
I grew up in Cleveland, where a light snowfall was six inches. I remember spending most of my childhood winters bundled up in snowsuits and big rubber boots with metal clasps that could really pinch your fingers, and slowly evolving from the mitten to the glove.
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Security is not an excuse for deceit
On June 13, 1971, The New York Times began to publish articles and documents that it had obtained from the top secret "Pentagon Papers," a 7,000-page history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Later this month, Wake Forest University will be host to a play about the Pentagon Papers case and a speech by Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analyst who leaked the papers to the press in 1971.
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Don't let age interfere with brotherhood
In family genetics, I am the little brother, as my big brother will never fail to remind me. But at the end of last summer, a good friend of mine who is on the board of the local organization asked me whether I had ever considered becoming a Big Brother.
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Color of night is about to change
How many politicians does it take to change a light bulb? The whole U.S. Congress and president, apparently. In that eerie lull before the Christmas vacation, they crept in and changed the lights. You might not notice for a few years, but the color of night is going to change. And it will change for the worse.
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