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MARK SMITH |
Flowers in the desert: Get ready for the newcomers
The recent uproar about the Focus Property Group's plan to slam hundreds upon hundreds of homes into some acreage at the southeast end of town includes elements that remind me of the law of unintended consequences.
Mixed feelings about snap judgments
My sandy-haired gap-toothed daughter likes to snap my picture on a cellphone as I'm eating my bran flakes in the morning and brooding over the front page of the Times, over which there is now more to brood than ever. She is 8 and she looks stunning in pictures, and I look stunned, as if someone had just clubbed me with a baseball bat. "Smile," she says, and I try, but still I look like an ugly white person who is fixing to die or something.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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