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THE TV COLUMN

Game Change traces Palin’s rise to prominence

The 2011-12 mid-season series are well under way, so let’s take a look at some of the new and returning spring programs on the horizon. Game Change, HBO, 8 p.m. March 10. If you enjoy political bio-pics, this one ought to pique your interest. Four-time Oscar nominee and As the World Turns alumna J...

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Out to pasture?

A group of Thoroughbred horses — sleek, magnificent, four-legged beasts mounted by diminutive jockeys — breaks out of the starting gate at the beginning of a race at Oaklawn Park. Little more than a blur to the betting spectators who cheer them on, they eat up the furlongs, their hooves kicking up dirt as they ...

Room to grow

After Krista Salmon’s 2-year-old daughter Anna Louise, known as Lou, outgrew her crib, the whole family got a little less sleep.

Hurricane Creek Wilderness hides water-carved marvels

The Hurricane Creek Wilderness is — no argument — the biggest jewel in a crown of natural wonders encircling this rural crossroads community at the junction of Arkansas 7, 16 and 123 in Pope County.

Vision in overalls cultivates riddles

It hadn’t been much of a winter, but it was a windy, cold afternoon. Just in from walking the dogs, I was making a cup of tea when a breeze shifted the steam from the cup. As I turned to see if the door was open, a familiar sparkle in the air caught my eye. ...

READING NOOK

Do you remember your first cookbook?

Chemical engineering career path to cosmetics

Last column I shared the story of Nakia Dedner of Little Rock, whose natural-hair-care line, Nakia Amour, recently made its debut at Whole Foods Market in Little Rock. Today I bring you the story of Dedner’s friend Leah Patterson. Patterson also lives in Little Rock. She, too, created a line of products with a natural ...

NEWS BRIEFS

Cardinal entangled in abuse cases dies PHILADELPHIA — Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, the retired head of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and an uncharged central figure in a child sex-abuse case that accuses the archdiocese of shuffling predator priests to unwitting parishes, has died. He was 88.

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