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WASHINGTON -- During his immersion in his new job, Gil Kerlikowske attended a focus group of 7-year-old girls and was mystified by their talk about "farm parties." Then he realized they meant "pharm parties" -- sampling pharmaceuticals from their parents' medicine cabinets. What he learned -- besides that young humans have less native sense than young dachshunds have -- is that his job has wrinkles unanticipated when he became director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. JOHN BRUMMETT: Blanche's corner shrinks Some other centrist Democratic member of the U.S. Senate -- not Blanche Lincoln -- might find a way out on Majority Leader Harry Reid's ploy. Letters to the Editor MICKI BARE: This year it is TRICK, not TREAT, thanks to flu The first Halloween visitor to darken our doorstep arrived early. It did not stop by to ask for a treat. Rather, it was delivering a ghastly trick. GARRISON KEILLOR: Petulance and the Peace Prize Evidently some people were disappointed that Dick Cheney didn't receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and believe me, I sympathize -- I thought Philip Roth should've gotten the literature prize instead of that grumpy Romanian lady with the severe hair -- but it was Mr. Obama whom the Norwegians wanted to come visit Oslo in December and stand on the balcony of the Grand Hotel and wave to the crowd along Karl Johans Gate, and, face it, Mr. Obama is going to draw a bigger crowd than Mr. Cheney would have. |
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