One of the most impactful scenes in “Concussion” is a brief and wordless one: Just a few seconds, really, of a high school football team going through its drills. We don’t know who these young, determined, helmeted kids are, but the message is sobering, especially if you’re a parent: Concussion-related brain damage from football is […]
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ART Tom Gilmore’s photographs are on display at the Louis B. Goodall Memorial Library, 952 Main St., Sanford, through the end of January. Gilmore photographs conserved lands in Maine and New Hampshire. While Acadia National Park and the White Mountains are well known, Gilmore is also developing a portfolio of photographs of land conserved by […]
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Engaged reader toys with visiting ex
DEAR HARRIETTE: I am engaged to the woman I love (and whom my family loves) and have been for about a year. Recently, my ex-girlfriend came back from Asia, and I have not been able to shake the feeling that I should see her. I have always thought of her as “the one who got […]
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An opponent is unhappy to help
John Galsworthy, an English dramatist and playwright who died in 1933, said, “A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.” At the bridge table, you must be a man or woman of thought before becoming a man or woman of action. And if the […]
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Bill Cosby is charged with sexually assaulting a woman
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby was charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting a woman at his home 12 years ago – the first criminal charges brought against the comedian out of the torrent of allegations that destroyed his good-guy image as America’s Dad. The case sets the stage for perhaps the biggest Hollywood celebrity trial of […]
