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Month: August 2012

FRANK LANGELLA’S BOOK & ROSA PARKS

FRANK LANGELLA’S BOOK & ROSA PARKS

I finished a book: Dropped names: Famous men and women as I knew them by the actor Frank Langella. Here are a few excerpts I thought worth repeating. Bette Davis was asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession. She always answered "the courage to be hated." I've often said that a lawyer, especially a trial lawyer, is very unlikely to be a great lawyer if they are worried about being liked and put that as a priority….

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THE NEW IDAHO REPUBLICAN PARTY – ONLY IN IDAHO?

THE NEW IDAHO REPUBLICAN PARTY – ONLY IN IDAHO?

Public radio KUOW carried a story, today, about the Idaho Republican party and its transformation from its traditional character. Apparently there are now strong factions within the party at odds with one another. One member of the party was quoted as saying:  "I visualized myself as more conservative than many, and that's what I thought until I was rudely awakened by some of these other people who started calling me a liberal." Idaho has been so Republican that the joke is the Democrats could…

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My Grandmother: Marija Mattia Vulic’ Babarovich 1863 to 1953

My Grandmother: Marija Mattia Vulic’ Babarovich 1863 to 1953

My maternal grandmother Marija Babarovich was born on September 21, 1863 on an island in the Adriatic Sea and died in Anacortes, Washington on August 5th, 1953. She was born in what was Austria Hungary, became Yugoslavia and is now Croatia. She died the year  I graduated from high school in Anacortes, Washington.Her life story is one of great courage and sacrifice involving immigration to America while not being able to speak English. I've previously talked about that in writing about my…

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