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• ?¥All My Sons?? proves as emotional, pertinent as all of Miller??s works

  Created: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 04:24

  Meg HaleWhat I don??t understand is: How can someone who was sleeping with Marilyn Monroe be so moody? Arthur Miller is one of the most gifted writers of plays with messages that are so timeless and with plots that are so emoti...

• Sports News June 21, 2006

  Created: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 04:22

  Tourists wreck Drive 6-1 behind standout pitchingGREENVILLE, S.C. ?? Behind stellar pitching, the Asheville Tourists grounded the Greenville Drive 6-1 in baseball last Sunday.Starter Brandon Durden (5-1) got the win for the Tourists, pitching seven hitles...

• Homeland security starts here

  Created: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 04:17

  Hurricane season is upon us once again and many on the Gulf Coast have much to be concerned about.Though the Army Corps of Engineers has finished rebuilding the New Orleans levee system, independent analysts have reported that the ...

• Hank Williams musical packs ironic punch

  Created: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 04:08

  John NorthEditor & PublisherMARS HILL ?? The musical biography ?®Hank Williams: Lost Highway?∆ certainly was a crowd-pleaser last Friday night in Owen Theatre at Mars Hill College.My assessment is based on the enthused a...

• Michell Wie derserves a shot to compete with golf??s finest

  Created: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 04:06

  Roland MartinCHICAGO ?? For nearly 20 years I have been an addict.When I walk by the green stuff, my heart starts to race, my eyes light up, and all that comes to mind is the last time I got my fix on with my 14 sticks.Yep, I...

• Kennedy brings bright ideas to immigration reform debate

  Created: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 04:03

  Bill WalzI finally heard a politician speak intelligently (and forcefully!) about the challenge of illegal immigration on our Mexican border. In an interview with Al Franken, Ted Kennedy, in his marvelous blustering style, we...

• Bush supporters should study history of U.S. actions in Iraq

  Created: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 04:01

  Mark WestThe recent documentary ?®Why We Fight?∆ contained a number of scenes that were, to my mind, riveting.There was a good bit of documentary footage of Dwight D. Eisenhower. I had always thought of him as the last gas...

• The Advice Goddess: Romance is not a paperback novel

  Created: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 03:57

  The Advice GoddessAmy AlkonFor about six weeks, I??ve been seeing a guy who??s here on a temporary work contract. We get along well, and I like him ?? despite his right-wing political views, his messy place and his college kid diet. However, last night ...

• Gallon of gas fetches new record price at Sotheby??s auction house

  Created: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 03:52

  Andy BorowitzIn a frenzy of bidding that many in the auction industry called unprecedented, a gallon of gas fetched a record price today at the legendary auction house Sotheby??s. Alistair Crutchfield, director of Sotheby??s ra...

• Using dreams to guide our lives? They can provide answers

  Created: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 03:50

  Janese JohnsonEven as a child, I was fascinated with understanding people from a deeper perspective.My grandmother ?®read?∆ a regular deck of cards and would get together with all the neighborhood women and give them readi...

• Prostitution? Respectability comes with a steep price

  Created: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 03:47

  Marc Mullinax?®We??re all prostitutes; some of us have higher prices, and some of us walk the streets.?∆?ÿTo the Editor:SEOUL, South Korea ?? When you, the editor of this newspaper, were at my home recently, one of the things we talked ?± joked, ac...

• Sports News June 14, 2006

  Created: Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:36

  Grasshoppers hand Tourists 2nd straight one-run lossThe Greensboro Grasshoppers jumped the Asheville Tourists 6-5 in baseball in front of 2,299 fans at McCormick Field last Monday night.In its second one-run defeat, Asheville (31-32) had a chance to pul...

• Wal-Mart needs to show respect

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  The issue that never goes away, Wal-Mart, has once again reared its head to cause controversy in Buncombe County ?? with similar cause for concern.Just over a month ago, the retail giant withdrew its application to build a supercenter in West Asheville,...

• Tired of punks? Crank up Manilow music

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  John NorthEditor & Publisher?®Although he has never earned the respect of critics or much of the public, Barry Manilow was one of the most successful recording artists of the ?¥70s and remains the undisputed No. 1 adult contemporary artist of all ...

• Religion without afterlife raises a toast to this life

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  Marc Mullinax?®Imagine there??s no heaven, it??s easy if you try. No hell below us. Above us only sky.?∆  ?± John Lennon?ÿMARS HILL ?? When I really want to bend my students?? minds, I ask, ?®If you knew for certain that there would not be a ...

• Wiccans who serve in military deserve to be properly honored

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  Mark West Sometimes, in this great country of ours, you just don??t know whether to laugh or to cry.The latest flap in the war in Iraq concerns whether a soldier whose religion was Wicca can have the religion??s symbol ?? a five-pointed star ?? eng...

• One-man show gives audiences at Stoneleaf Festival ?¥The Fever??

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  Meg HaleMost people know of the actor Wallace Shawn from his roles on ?®The Cosby Show?∆ and as Vizzini in the film ?®The Princess Bride.?∆ When he is not poisoning masked men and exclaiming ?®Inconceivable!,?∆ he is an acclaimed and award-winn...

• Police Blotter for June 14, 2006

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  Jerry Buck Inman?¥Bikini Strangler?? confesses; got his start in BuncombeCLEMSON, S.C. ?? A man known as the ?®Bikini Strangler?? who has confessed to the strangling death of a Clemson University student has a record of sexual assaults in the Buncombe...

• No phone call? Quit waiting for one; move on

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  I??m 32, independent, accomplished, in shape and considered pretty. I??d love to find a boyfriend, but I don??t NEED a boyfriend. A friend set me up with this guy ?? brilliant, sexy, successful, and athletic (a former Big Ten college quarterback). We ha...

• Citizen??s dividend? It??s a versatile solution

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  Carl S. Milsted, Jr. Illegal immigration, job outsourcing, trade deficits, budget deficits, workers in poverty, the welfare trap, an insanely complicated tax code ... What do all these problems have in common?The answer: They could all be substanti...