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April 22, 2004

Vol 2 • No 14

SWIPED - YOU ARE BEING TRACKED

Stealth. It's the first rule of tracking, as any hunter knows.

More help for millionaires

Tax day came and went last week without many of the usual alarums about the tremendous tax burdens of Americans because the contortions that it takes to make that case have become too ridiculous.

Achieving and aspiring in the Delta

HELENA - Javuena wants to go to Duke or Stanford and become a pediatrician or counselor. Brittany wants to go to Harvard, Yale or Stanford and become a nurse. Keatra wants to go to Stanford, Harvard or Dartmouth and become a lawyer.

Frank unhappy with Nolan for a long time

Frank Broyles' unhappiness with Nolan Richardson began even as Richardson was winning the national championship tournament in 1994, when Richardson insulted CBS announcer Billy Packer in a post-game interview.

Signifying nothing

Politicians speak, reporters record, readers read. Often, no one stops to think how little the sound and fury may mean. Two examples from last week:

Shopping center scrap goes to court

The veil has been removed from a 2-year-old threat to condemn land developer Lou Schickel bought in the middle of a proposed University Heights shopping center at the northeast corner of Markham and University.

Thou shalt vote Bush

You know those God Sez billboards that have appeared across the country from time to time over the past few years, putting inane and downright stupid words and sayings into the mouth of the Almighty, quoting him as actually having uttered them?

Terry Frei caught Hogs-Horns feel

Readers of last year's great sports book "Horns, Hogs and Nixon Coming: Texas vs. Arkansas in Dixie's Last Stand" might have thought author Terry Frei attended either the universities of Texas or Arkansas at the time, or at least worked at the side of the Arkansas sportswriting sage Orville Henry if not on the staff of a major Texas sports section.

'Our Lady of the Freeway'

The First Pentecostal Church's new sanctuary on Interstate 40 in North Little Rock, its steeple shining 193 feet in the air, held its first service on Easter Sunday.
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