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Aligning My Compass
The woman in the Harris Teeter bathroom kept talking. "I've gotten so used to these faucets that when I go home, I hold out my hands and wait for the water to come on. Then I remember I'm not at…
Modern Mr. Mom
"The women tend to think he doesn't know what he's doing when he does," says Allen's wife, Valerie. Allen often takes his four-year-old twins, Quentin and Ainsley, to a playgroup he organized in his neighborhood. It's an early Thursday morning…
It's Not Easy Being Green
It wasn't until I found myself yelling at my mother that her use of paper plates instead of reusable ceramic ones was going to kill baby seals that I realized my Going Green for Thirty Days experiment may have gotten…
Bruce Springsteen, the Super Bowl and ex-Observer writers
In the piece, Posnanski writes about attending Springsteen's last Charlotte show. I was there, too, and it was great. (As a hardcore and longtime Bruce fan, I have no qualms with him playing the Super Bowl. Why should Tom Petty…
Davidson in the spotlight again tonight; Michael Kruse's book out
Kruse, you might recall, wrote a story for us in December 2007 which essentially predicted the monster season that Davidson basketball was undertaking. And for our November 2008 issue, he wrote the definitive profile of Stephen Curry. Seriously, you won't…
When Ken Lewis held all the keys
Interestingly, the story subtly paints the U.S. gov't as a party to the final implosion of Wall Street as we knew it. After saving Bear Stearns from bankruptcy, the government seemed disinclined to get involved with Lehman. After seeing the…
