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The Deacon's Bench
A good reporter, a good man
By
jmcgee
While on vacation, I was saddened to learn that veteran CBS News correspondent Harold Dow had died suddenly from an asthma attack. He was 62. I had the privilege of knowing him, and working with him on two trailblazing magazine shows, “Street Stories” and “48 Hours.” Tough, tenacious, fair-minded, big-hearted — Harold was all of…
For anyone who hates conference calls…
By
jmcgee
…this one’s for you. From the Citizens Bank annual talent show, a hilarious take on an office ritual, from Dave Grady. Enjoy.
“Socking it to Christianity” in high school tests?
By
jmcgee
That’s the charge some teachers are leveling in New York. Details: State testmakers played favorites when quizzing high-schoolers on world religions — giving Islam and Buddhism the kid-gloves treatment while socking it to Christianity, critics say. Teachers complain that the reading selections from the Regents exam in global history and geography given last week featured…
Write this down!
By
jmcgee
“Have upon your study table, always accessible, a good-sized substantially bound blank book. Whenever a germinant thought comes seize your pen and write it down. Such thoughts will come out of your special course of literary reading, out of your cursory scanning of current fiction, even out of the five-minute glance given to the morning…
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