Let’s make 2014 about words with friends
jessica leigh lebos
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A refugee family’s first Christmas
Often, the season can leave many feeling like strangers in a strange land. For a family I met last week, that feeling is no analogy but reality.
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Covered in color
While its agenda can be political, fanciful or baffling, its first purpose is always to issue the primal call of “I am here! And you are, too!”
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‘Hedwig’: The ultimate rock ‘n’ roll fantasy
A fictional transgender German rock star might sound like an unlikely obsession for a straight (but not narrow!) married lady with a mortgage, but I’m definitely not the only Hedhead.
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Sowing the farmers’ stories
The fact is, true farming is a whole lot harder than us wannabes could ever imagine: The dawn-’til-dusk labor, the hand-me-downs and do-withouts, the sheer fear of being beholden to nature’s whims.
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Here’s to your health (insurance)!
In theory, the Affordable Care Act provides decent care and protects patients from suffocating bills, though so far in practice it seems to be performing about as well as a drunken rhino running the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon.
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Pimp your ride?
The Absurdivan is a venerated part of our family, like a senile aunt who wears her entire costume jewelry collection to the grocery store because she thinks the cleaning lady will steal it.
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History cut short
He had the uncanny talent of stitching together disparate disciplines to distill the bigger picture, an uncommon trait for a lifelong academic.
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America, the beautiful mess
If I had a bunch of old suits screaming all day long about what they think is best for me while ignoring what I actually have to say about it, I’d break some serious bad, too. But listen. You’re pushing 238 and it’s time to grow the fuck up.
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Get sick at the Davenport House
Set in various parts of the refined American Federal-style domicile on Columbia Square, the hour-long show chronicles the horrific illness that killed one out of five Savannah citizens and provides a fascinating and germane context of social norms, race relations, media propaganda and medical inefficacy.
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The Veep came to town and I didn’t even get a T-shirt
Thing is, Biden gave almost exactly the same speech earlier that morning in South Carolina, which has its own harbor deepening enterprise brewing at the Port of Charleston.