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EndNotes archive for May 9, 2012

WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton winks at British Foreign Secretary William Hague after he addressed a Security Council meeting on the situation in Syria on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

Hair-brain comments?

Hillary Clinton received a great deal of attention yesterday…not for anything she said in Bangladesh as Secretary of State, but instead for the state of her appearance. She wore her glasses, no make-up and had this to say when comments were made: “I feel so…

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Phones such as this Sanyo SCP-5500 dual band camera phone on the Sprint mobile phone network are not welcome in Saudia Arabia. 
 (File/Associated Press / The Spokesman-Review)

Say it now

Facebook seems to be "trending" today on this: The desire to reconnect with old friends but the inability to do so because the friend has died. (Often discovered on a Google search when the obit appears.) My Facebook friend and former S-R staffer, Kory Boatman,…

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Spokesman-Review features writer Rebecca Nappi, along with writer Catherine Johnston of Olympia, Wash., discuss here issues facing aging boomers, seniors and those experiencing serious illness, dying, death and other forms of loss.