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GARRISON KEILLOR
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A Duke Ellington for modern times
Hot night, New York: a little breeze in the trees in the deep stone canyons as I look out my window, thousands of little lighted windows of private lives, one of which is mine. I'm reminded of this by the fact that a hundred feet away, a man stands at a window looking through binoculars that seem to be trained precisely on me, and though he surely would prefer looking at someone more exciting than a tall bespectacled man in a black T-shirt and jeans, a man who is not jumping around playing air guitar or fastening his hair to his head with strips of tape or unzipping the dress of a beautiful woman, nonetheless he is focused on me, and I don't leap back from the window in horror -- I feel (slightly) honored by his attention.
Gibbons avoids being governor again
On June 5, 2007, the Nevada Republican Party put out a news release on the outcome of the 2007 Nevada Legislature: "Under the leadership of Governor Gibbons...We increased teacher pay, and most importantly, provided merit pay to reward our best teachers."
Letters to the Editor
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