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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:00 AM

Out of great suffering comes beauty

Saginaw, Mich., might be sagging but we can admire it for producing poet and teacher Theodore Roethke, and for preserving his boyhood home.
By Garrison Keillor

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  • Wednesday, February 13, 2008 09:33 AM

    Your English teachers served you poorly: set that canard next to "no prepositions at the ends of sentences" and "no split infinitives"

    "[M]y English teachers always told me never to start a sentence, much less a paragraph with a conjunction[.]"

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