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“Raise our voices in more pleasing and more joyful sounds”

From Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Fourth Movement. In a world that sometimes seems to have gone mad, it’s reminder of what human beings can accomplish when they are free to live, create, work together …...

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Frank McCourt: “They thought I was teaching … I was learning.”

As he put it in “Teacher Man,” his third volume of autobiography: Instead of teaching, I told stories. Anything to keep them quiet and in their seats. They thought I was teaching. I thought I was...

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AP: “3-year countdown begins for Atlanta’s water future”

Georgia faces the dire prospect of losing metropolitan Atlanta’s main water source if political leaders can’t broker a solution with Alabama and Florida over rights to a major reservoir within three...

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David Satter on Natalya Estemirova

From this interview with the International Affairs Forum: IA-Forum: [Would] you please comment on the recent murder of Natalia Estemirova? Mr. Satter: This is part of a whole string: Stanislav...

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A Sunday Morning Look to the Heavens

“We pointed the most powerful telescope ever built by human beings at absolutely nothing, just because we were curious, and discovered that we occupy a very tiny place in the heavens.” Just because we...

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Bye, Dad…

Mr. Robert R. “Bob” Ducatte, 80, of Park Row, Cadyville, N.Y., passed away Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009, at the CVPH Medical Center in Plattsburgh with his family by his side. He was born in Plattsburgh,...

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“Opportunity cannot thrive where individuals are oppressed”

… From President Obama’s September 23 speech at the United Nations. Here’s the whole thing: Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to address you...

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A Bit of Fall Color…

From upstate New York, in the Lake Champlain and Plattsburgh area:

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The Buds Are Coming! The Buds Are Coming!

Well… I guess five months is long enough for my unplanned, unannounced, more-or-less unintentional blogging break of indeterminate length, so I thought I would jump back in with evidence of early...

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I Have Moved !!

Please visit my new site at: http://daleducatte.com/ If you previously subscribed by RSS or email, you can subscribe to the new site when you get there. Thanks for visiting; see you on the other side!

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