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The Slice archive for June 4, 2012

MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012

It never fails 

Full of breezy confidence, you make a simple declaration. And then, almost immediately, events conspire in an attempt to prove you wrong. A guiding premise of tomorrow's Slice column, written last week, is that it never really gets muggy here. I stand by this assertion.…

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"He's moving like a tremendous machine" 

Nine years ago, as the running of the Belmont Stakes approached, I took up an entire Slice column with the transcript of the track announcer's call of Secretariat's mind-blowing victory in that race in 1973. Many regard that Triple Crown finish as one of the…

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Liquor is quicker 

I haven't done extensive polling. But it would seem that a few days of being able to buy bottles of booze everywhere except daycare facilities has not quelled the debate in all households where voting was split on that liquor sales measure.

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Know your Washington trivia  

Cheney Stadium is not in Cheney. It is in Tacoma. The community that is home to Eastern Washington University was named after Benjamin Pierce Cheney. The baseball stadium in Pierce County was named after Benjamin Bradbury Cheney. I'll send a coveted reporter's notebook to the…

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