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Culture | James McPherson
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Fatti Maschii, Parole Femine. There Goes Steve English, the Greatest Shooter that Ever Was. On the morning of May 28, 25 years ago, I awoke to a terrifying sound coming from my mother downstairs. Something I had never heard before. Something like, “No! 8221; with Irish defiance and maternal heartache. Something was really wrong. Within seconds my father came into my room with the news that my friend and classmate Steve English had died the night before. We had recently read. Grade, and since the 6. 8220;...
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Education | James McPherson
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Fatti Maschii, Parole Femine. I had lunch today with a former student, David Stoughton, from my first year as a teacher. David has turned his high school landscaping business in Maryland into a burgeoning real estate enterprise in the Triad area of North Carolina. He started it out in his parents’ garage of course. Our lunch was in the oldest building in downtown Greensboro, which he owns, at the Liberty Oak restaurant, rated one of the best in the South by Southern Living magazine. I taught David Trigon...