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A Maui Community Tradition on the Brink of Reviving Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran | Photos courtesy Gil S.C. Keith-Agaran If there’s a Ferris Wheel, I’ll be at the Maui [County] Fair sometime between October 2–5 next month. Since moving home in...

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Once Obviously Young and Naive at Old Eli Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran | Photos courtesy Gil Keith-Agaran Last summer my wife and I attended my 40th college class reunion in New Haven, Connecticut. During three of my college years, I lived...

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  Superman Now The True American Alien for Our Times Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran I don’t plan to see James Gunn’s re-boot of the Superman “franchise” at some brick-and-mortar movie theater. I haven’t been to the cinema in many moons—I mainly...

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Signs of the Apocalypse Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran In bygone days, Sports Illustrated (a printed magazine covering sports nationally on a weekly basis) would have a blurb entitled Signs of the Apocalypse. The comments were usually brief and, for the most...

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Conclaves, Conventions and the Spirit Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran An American-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost came out to the Balcony to greet the throngs in the plaza below as the successor of St. Peter, taking the name Leo XIV for his...

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Little Hukóm in Aloha State Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran Wisconsin and North Carolina recently completed elections for their State Supreme Courts, with one judicial election decisively decided by the Badger state voters and the other overturned by an appellate court throwing...

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