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63Press Should Report News, Not Make It
NBC reporter Jim Gray's controversial interview with Pete Rose during the 2000 World Series is a perfect example of the press acting irresponsibly: making the news instead of reporting it!
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62Spurn the Tyranny of the Majority
Only a few decades ago, Americans enjoyed a kinder, gentler society. But, generally, attitudes have changed in recent years. There's a tendency toward mean-spiritedness today as illustrated by the current outlook on smokers, who are often vilified by nonsmokers.
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70We Should Be Reaching for the Stars
Old-timers like me lament the decline of moral and ethical values we've all witnessed over the last several decades. We were, and are, far from perfect. We've said and done things we're not proud of, but, then, we're human aren't we?
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67Privacy: Noun Now Believed To Be Obsolete
You can run, but you can't hide. It's becoming more apparent to me that Big Brother is alive and well -- and living in the Internet. If there were ever any doubt that the society that George Orwell foretold has come to fruition, there can be little or none today.
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78True Charity: Selfless, Not Self-serving
Charity should be selfless, not self-serving. The wealthy, too often, use charities for something other than soliciting their thanks. Asise from tax breaks, the big givers, especially, reap large rewards, both financially and socially.
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63Who's Really Watching the Stock Market?
The Federal Reserve Board and the U.S. Treasury are not doing enough to protect the growing number of sheep-like investors from the growing number of financial wolves. "Big money interests" are playing the market like an accordian.
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69Sources Go With Facts
If I know something to be a fact, that's good enough for me. Nevertheless, you can't just state a fact without fear of contradiction. Often, when I state what to me is a fact, someone always wants to know: Where did you hear that? Answer? Today in History!
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71History Often Depends On Who Writes It
I was just a boy during World War II, but I have many memories, both good and bad. It's been said that the history of the world will be written by the victors; if the Axis powers had won that war, who knows what the history books would be saying now?
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66The Golf Tour -- On a Small Scale
This column was written for the sports pages of The Hour newspaper of Norwalk, Conn., on July 9, 1999 by George Albano, Assistant Sports Editor. It's a parody of the four-part series by William F. Torpey on four Norwalk area 18-hole golf courses.
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68The Wheel Keeps Rolling On
This is the last of four "playing" reports on Norwalk, Conn., area golf courses -- this one on "The Wheel," a Bridgeport municipal facility that offers two courses, the Red and the Black. It's part of a series written for The Hour newspaper in 1999.
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