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Never Tell Eagles to Stop Soaring
Exceptional people are advised to tone it down — you’re too organized, too compassionate, too visionary.
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Arts
‘White God’: Man’s Best Friend?
"But the dogs … we find ourselves rooting for them to get back at their human tormentors."
Perspective
A Goodbye to Gooch
Once we actually got home, we found that the elation born of our Spanish pilgrimage was heightened rather than compromised by the nightmarish return trip, involving the unexplained cancellation of a flight to Madrid, racing about Galicia from one Podunk airport to another by bus, diversions to London, bureaucratic hassles and a shamefully inefficient and unpleasant passage through immigration control and Kennedy Airport.
Perspective
And Then the Wheel Came Off
Back in 1977, when I was still young, my father-in-law acquired a beast of a machine — a big seven-horse, Troy Bilt, rear-tine tiller that was the envy of this part of Belcher Mountain Road.
