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What if Tom Friedman is right?

Without warning, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman dropped a bombshell smack into the middle of his opinion piece on Feb. 10.

Art Buchwald, humor columnist, 81

Buchwald always had a marvelous relationship with colleagues, readers and aspiring writers. Many stories tell of his availability, his phone number listed in the Washington directory and his invitations to aspiring writers to have coffee, bagels and talk.

Laugh at Death the Buchwald Way

Art Buchwald is living and dying in a Washington, D.C., hospice. If you don\’t know his story, you could be forgiven for thinking this is a very sad time for the 80-year-old Jewish columnist. Just the opposite, Buchwald says. \”I am,\” he announces, \”having the time of my life.\”

Safire Says Book of Job Political

Dean\’s confusion about the location of the Book of Job generated a fair amount of ridicule at the time from commentators — but not from William Safire, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of The New York Times, who is speaking next week about Job at Sinai Temple.

A Woman’s Voice

Since 1987, Bill Rosendahl has been airing significant public affairs programs on Adelphia cable.

Honoring Marlene

Marlene Adler Marks\’ first column for this paper appeared in March 1987. It was titled \”The Unwanted Visitor.\” It was about a rabbi who showed up to comfort Marlene as she waited in the hospital for her husband, Burton, to come out of surgery. \”It hadn\’t been comforting to me,\” Marlene wrote, shortly before Burton died. \”I couldn\’t handle it. There is a time when even a rabbi can do no good at all.\”

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