For Benjamin F. Perkins, public service was a lifetime calling. Mr. Perkins, who died Monday, April 25, 2011, at 86, was a young Marine serving in the Pacific during World War II. Later, in the 1950s, he was appointed as Irwin's police chief. Then, around 1971, Perkins became chief of the Irwin Volunteer Fire Department -- a position he held for the next 15 years.
Goodbye to the Battle Ax, and all that. Farewell to all the animals of city and suburb, forest and veldt, who speak with a wit and insight that Washington's pols can only envy. Peter Steiner, whose daily cartoon has been a fixture on these pages for 21 years, is returning to the planet from which he sprang, in a galaxy far away. He leaves an eclectic cast of characters in newspaper limbo.
For Thomas, God was a deus absconditus, a God who had not only hidden himself from men, but a God who could only be known through the presence of His absence, His absent "presence" - an absence and, therefore, by default, a "presence" that, for Thomas, was as long-standing as the history of Christianity, an absent presence that was a constant theme throughout his poetry, as it no doubt was in his life.\n It is not surprising, however, to see why Thomas was drawn to Jeffers and to this poem, and why he chose to include this particular poem in his anthology.
When Samuel Strickland began studying ophthalmology 48 years ago, patients who had undergone cataract surgery were kept in the hospital for as many as 10 days. Now, most patients can leave after fewer than three hours.
Condolences to all former husbands and former wives whose marriages have been ruined as the encroachment of gay rights erodes the institution of marriage. I know all of you would still be married today if it werent for the rise of civil unions and the fall of dont ask, dont tell. These ghastly trends toward tolerance certainly boost the divorce rate much higher than, say, adultery, alcoholism, spousal abuse, financial hardships, bowling leagues and poker parties. Last week, I went searching for explanations of how the American way of life is being torn asunder by these trends. I was drawn to a story in The Washington Post on Monday that began: Congressional Republicans still seething from last years repeal of the militarys dont ask, dont tell policy are hoping for a progress report Th...
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