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Articles Written by: REX SMITH
My day job usually requires me to pick which stories will wind up on our newspaper’s front page. Some days the choices are easy, because the topic of a story is vitally important. But sometimes stories get attention because people care deeply about ...
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When I sneezed four times in a row driving to work Friday, I detoured to the pharmacy to pick up a packet of Airborne. You know Airborne: those tablets that fizz up a cup of water, which you’re supposed to drink at the first sign of a cold.
Maybe ...
George McGovern was in town the other day. Nowadays, I’m told, he jokes about how his name is used as a noun — “McGovernism” being understood as the very definition of political liberalism. “Well, I’m one politician that’s in the dictionary, even if it’ ...
When we were kids, Tommy Allen wasn’t the most dependable font of knowledge, though he pretended to be. For years, I called every craft on water a “boat” because Tommy insisted the word “ship” was naughty. He said he could pin me wrestling in the yard ...
Struggling to compose this column, I was trying to remember a Scripture passage that might lend a felicitous phrase, and so I consulted the Bible that sits on my bookshelf. Since my office is a glass box, open for all the newsroom to see, I tried to do ...
Some jobs you know won’t last long, no matter what kind of a record you create. Like being prime minister of Italy since World War II (average tenure: 20 months) or attorney general under Richard Nixon (24 months) or, apparently, police chief of Albany ...
The way I figure it, Pedro Espada is our Mark Sanford.
Not that I think Espada has an Argentine dish on the side, nor has he used his press conferences to articulate “the sex line,” which by reading dispatches from South Carolina I have inferred to be ...
A few dozen people, including parents and children, had gathered at a friend’s home on a small Rensselaer County lake one warm afternoon several years ago when one guy decided to swim. But he had forgotten his suit. So he stripped and waded in, giving ...
When I sat down to write today’s column, I was presented with a wonderful opportunity to procrastinate, which is what writers do when confronting a deadline: I had to empty the wastebasket and the recycling container under my desk into larger bins in ...
