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Follow The Money
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Deep Throat: You thought I’d help out on specifics? I’ll confirm what you get, try to keep you on the right track, but that’s all. Are…
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Great (Havoc-Wreaking, Holiday) Expectations
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—12/6/10—My spouse and I experienced a turkey-less, stuffing-less, cranberry-sauce-less, and green-bean-casserole-less Thanksgiving dinner this year, and survived to tell of it. When Rebecca (not…
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Oberst Olbermann, of The Court Jestery
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring The following column is excerpted from the first edition of my collected “Ruminant” columns, and ran online in 2007 . . . when I still had…
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How the EU’s Immigration Policies Cost My Husband His Wallet (or, The 300-Euro Subway Ride)
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring ATHENS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—11/8/10—It (like just about everything else in life, except root canals) happened in a flash. Yesterday, my husband, Dean, a savvy New York City…
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“The New Poverty”
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring SANTORINI, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—10/25/10—This morning (a heavenly one, here in the Cyclades), I stopped into what my grandmother would have called a “notions” shop, here in the…
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Bleak House on Mykonos
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring MYKONOS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—10/11/10—The only foreign-language bookstore on this Greek, Cycladic island, Mykonos, which I have this year been visiting for half a century, closed its doors…
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The Siren Song of the Open, Spiritual Road
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring MYKONOS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—9/27/10—A couple of nights ago, at about three in the morning, the mosquitoes of Ornos Beach, here on Mykonos, finally got my goat, as…
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The Wounded Yogini: Back To Base Camp
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—9/13/10—My father was a dinosaur even before his premature death, of stroke, in 1972. He was a non-proselytizing Presbyterian; a quiet, if not silent,…
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Howard Stern Speaks To Floyd The Groundhog
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—9/6/10—Floyd was named for a tall, tough, teen-aged fourth-grader with whom James Thurber went to grammar school. Big for his age, and even bigger…
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“The Mosque At Ground Zero”
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—8/23/10—Gentle Readers, this will be more of a meditation than a column, and I pray I can keep it short, as our attention spans…