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The Slice archive for March 5, 2014

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2014



Annoying Newsroom Behavior No. 56

I once worked at a paper where one of the guys in sports saved himself the trouble of learning new co-workers' names by simply addressing everyone -- males anyway -- as "coach." This was a couple of years before "Cheers" was on TV. Or it…

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The part of the story that gets left out

There are people of a certain age who enjoy suggesting that kids today tend to be greedhead whiners. What they seem to forget is that some of these same people made their parents' lives a living hell with constant nagging about the all-important need to…

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The Wednesday Slice question

A former college roommate sent me a friendly email this week. Though we always got along, I had not talked to him since the 1970s. He said he came across my picture online. Which suggests he realizes I no longer look like I did when…

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