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GARRISON KEILLOR
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Went to Baltimore and saw that it was good
In Baltimore with friends Sunday morning, a splendid fall day under blue skies, we marched off to the nearest church and found ourselves in an old brownstone temple of 1852, wooden box pews, stained glass on all sides, old tiled floor, for a high Anglican-Catholic Mass, a troop of choristers in white, altar boys, bearded priests in medieval vestments, holy water and puffs of smoke and bells and chanting of scripture, precision bowing and genuflecting, all rather exotic for an old fundamentalist like me but deeply moving, and it made me think about my father, whose birthday was October 12, and brought me to tears.
A reporter other reporters suspect
Last December when the Washington Post hired reporter John Solomon away from the Associated Press, a question addressed to Post reporter Peter Baker appeared on a Poynter online chat site, a site mostly used by journalists.
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