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"I am wounded, but I am not slain. I will lay me down and bleed a while and then rise up to fight again." (John Dryden)

People

Writing, making, thinking. Longtime journalist and news executive, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Worried but hopeful.
The Go, Get, Bring guy. TV and film writer; former cop and lawyer. Thinks coincidence violates the uncertainty principle.
Obscure cartoonist who lives far, far away, former cartoonist for the Anchorage Daily News, author of "My Degeneration, a Journey Through Parkinson's.