The mayor used to hang out at the air base golf course where I learned the game. He was a retired USAF colonel who had been commander at the base, and you d see him sometimes sitting out with the base commander on the patio, sipping gin and tonics. I got to know him because I was a range rat and he was a garrulous sort, which I assumed was a prerequisite for being a small-town mayor.
Buddhist monk Khentrul Lodro T haye Rinpoche grew up in the mountains of Tibet in the midst of the cultural revolution, when China was destroying its monasteries and desecrating its shrines.
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If you haven t secured a pass to see John Waters on Saturday during the Central Arkansas Library System s Six Bridges Book Festival, then you may feel like cursing your procrastinating ways: His one-man show sold out last month.