Archive for October, 2007

Book Review/A Thousand Splendid Suns

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Book Review A Thousand Splendid Suns By Khaled Hosseini Riverhead Books A division of Penguin Group Hardcover $25.95 
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
This may not be proper for a book reviewer, but I feel I must give a warning to for [...]

The high cost of education

Friday, October 26th, 2007

By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
When I attended college at the end of World War II in the late 1940s, I had to supplement the stipend I received as a GI bill student in order to pay rent, buy food and other necessities. I took part time jobs that would not interfere [...]

Book Review/Boone: A biography

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Book Review Boone: A biography By Robert Morgam Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $29.95 Hardcover 
By BILL DUNCAN
The News-Review
If you think of the American icon Daniel Boone as a frontiersman wearing a coonskin cap and cradling a long bore rifle, then your [...]

Keep the hat firmly planted on head

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
In a Democracy, the majority rules. At least in a textbook version. If that be the case, the 4 to 1 decision on the controversy over my hat in the picture accompanying this column should end the issue. I doubt it and you’ll see why if you [...]

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

Friday, October 12th, 2007

By BILL DUNCAN

In a Democracy, the majority rules. At least in a textbook version. If that be the case, the 4 to 1 decision on the controversy over my hat in the picture accompanying this column should end the issue. I doubt it and you’ll see why if you [...]

Baking Pumpkin Curry Soup

Friday, October 5th, 2007

By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here

It is not hard to tell October is here when you live in farm country. Everything turns orange just in time for Halloween. It doesn’t matter what farmstead you visit, there is bound to be stacks of orange globes waiting to be carved into jack-o-lanterns [...]