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Characters for president
Mitch Clarke
      A lot has been said this week about TNT's decision to continue showing the episodes of "Law & Order" that feature a character played by actor Fred Thompson, who now says he's running for president.
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Mumbles
Six years later, just remember
Billy Fleming
      It's Tuesday morning, Sept. 11, 2001. Before the day is out it becomes a day that will live in infamy; over 3,000 people in the twin towers in New York City, at the Pentagon and in a remote Pennsylvania field lose their lives. The rest of the nation stands in dazed awe of what happened.
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Leeches near and far
Brenda Wall
      One of my favorite movies has always been "The African Queen." I'm not even sure what the whole plot is because I only watch it for the leeches. There is a scene early in the movie when Bogart and Hepburn have to get out of their boat and sort of shove it along the water. When they get back in th...
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The day the music died, again
Alex McRae
      Redemption may be right around the corner for resigned Senator Larry Craig (R-Utah), but he'd better not seek any sympathy from me. Police reports said he attempted to solicit sex by moving his foot and waving his hand in a Minneapolis airport men's room.
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A tribute to a great nurse
LETTERS
      Daisy Grier Fleming was one of the best nurses the city of Blakely ever had the privilege of knowing. Dr. S. P. Holland saw her potential when she worked for him as a nurse's aide. He encouraged Daisy to go to nursing school. She did and became a registered nurse.
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Shipp's Georgia
The incredible shrinking donkey
Bill Shipp
      If Sen. Larry Craig wiggled out of his guilty plea for trolling for male sex partners in a public toilet and somehow wound up on the GOP presidential ticket, what would happen? For starters, the South, including Georgia, would support the ticket.
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Deception alive and well on Capitol Hill
Robert Novak
      The final version of the widely celebrated ethics bill, passed by overwhelming margins in both House and Senate a month ago, finally and quietly made its way last week from Capitol Hill to the White House. It surely will soon be signed into law by President Bush.
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