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Jeff Minick

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  • Food Fight: We Made the Mess We’re Now In

    Food Fight: We Made the Mess We’re Now In0

    “Essen!” the old man shouted at me when I refused his wife’s offer of seconds on my supper plate. “Immer essen!” My German was terrible, but I understood him: “Always eat!”            It was 1978, and while staying with a friend in Switzerland, my wife Kris and I had met a

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  • The Elites Who Never Say ‘Sorry’

    The Elites Who Never Say ‘Sorry’0

    The car owner knows he must change the oil in his Civic from time to time, or his neglect will damage the engine. The drill sergeant understands he must prepare his rookies for combat, or they may fail to perform on the field of battle. The intensive-care nurse must keep a watchful eye on the

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  • Let’s Bring Back the Chief and Stop Littering

    Let’s Bring Back the Chief and Stop Littering0

    On a recent trip from Virginia to Indiana, the friend who was driving me commented on the trash alongside the expressways. With the exception of Route 30’s lightly traveled parts, he was right. Plastic bags, fast-food wrappers, beer bottles, and other debris uglified the roadways.            The motel where we stayed

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  • The Unwanted Visitor Coming to Breakfast

    The Unwanted Visitor Coming to Breakfast0

    An aged Indian, an elderly woman, and her granddaughter are prisoners of a band of Comancheros in the film The Outlaw Josey Wales. The old woman, dragged behind a wagon, is almost dead from exhaustion when the chief notices Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) watching them from a nearby hill. “Get ready, little lady,” he says.

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