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January 8, 2004

Vol 1 • No 51

The Damien I Know - The Architect and the Inmate

I first saw Lorri Davis inside an Arkansas prison. It was early 1997. We were at the Maximum Security Unit at Tucker. Both of us were visiting men on Death Row.

Clark's the one

Thirteen long-time friends of mine - all Arkansas people about my age - got together New Year's Eve and wrote down the name of the man they thought would get the Democrat nomination for president and indicated whether they thought he could beat George Bush.

Things couldn't be nuttier at UA

We should all be so lucky: Land a job you're probably not qualified for, make a lot of promises, surprise 'em with a bang-up start and then languish in mediocrity for the next six years. Then, when you tell your boss the next two years may be worse, he says your job is safe for another three years and your salary's being doubled.

And the second shall be first

Any man fortunate enough to possess a newspaper column is entitled to use that space once to pay tribute to his departed dog. It'll probably turn out to be his best writing, coming from a truer and more honorable place than any assessment of public policy or a public personality.

The failure of testing

When the Supreme Court's deadline for Arkansas to fix its schools arrived last week, the legislature and the governor had agreed to give teachers a lot more red tape and enough new money that if it were all handed to Houston Nutt would keep him coaching the Razorbacks to 8-3 seasons for three more years.

Almanac terror

The Associated Press reported last week that the anti-terrorism whizzes at the FBI had alerted law enforcement nationwide to be on the lookout for suspicious characters reading almanacs.

Call me Hayley Mills

New Year's resolution: Accentuate the positive.

Quapaw realty sales move up

When Sharon Welch-Blair and her husband decided to buy the historic Hornibrook House to open a Quapaw Quarter bed-and-breakfast in 1993, they had trouble getting a bank loan.
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