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Long, restless night makes good story (10/26/05)

“What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done for a story?” someone asked.

How do you say 'junk' in Russian?

If you could learn a language by buying dictionaries, I'd be fluent by now.

Looks like it's time to switch plans (10/5/05)

Can we talk a little about Decree 382?

Too much clutter for experts (9/21/05)

Clive and Roger would not approve.

Cracked crocks and the doghouse (9/28/05)

It’s been a tough time for crockery at our house.

Still falling for the magic of Christmas (11/02/05)

Every year, when November rolls around, newspaper columnists feel it’s their duty to decry how much the Christmas season has been extended and how commercialized it’s become.

A long day and a strange meeting (11/09/05)

We're standing in a hallway just outside the newsroom at Gazeta Slonimskaya, the independent newspaper of the city of Slonim in Belarus.

Losing fight to keep information flowing (11/16/05)

Roman is smiling because an old friend has arrived in town. There’s little other reason to smile.

Travel the world over, talk returns to food (11/23/05)

Inevitably, it seems, the talk turns to food.

Not enough hours in the holiday days (11/30/05)

Einstein, of course, had it right.

Almost right means entirely wrong again (12/07/05)

An old editor friend used to have a sign in his office that read, “If it’s almost right, it’s wrong.”

Act of kindness is a Rockwell moment (12/14/05)

No wonder Norman Rockwell came here to paint.

Santa still making visits to his house (12/21/05)

Santa still comes to our house.

New Year's Eve not what it used to be (01/04/05)

There’s an old song that goes, “What are you doing New Year’s, New Year’s Eve?”

It's not to late to tell Scholer's story (12/28/05)

No one likes to learn that a story has slipped through the cracks, even if it slipped away decades ago.
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