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• The Daily Sam: Disneyworld

  November 20, 2009

  • I should have known it was going to be bad day when the traffic reporter on KQED radio said there was still a problem on the N line after telling us about an as-yet undiagnosed problem on the L line. San Francisco’s mass transit system (MUNI) of buses, light rail, trolleys, cable cars, carrier pigeons, sleds, and roller blades always has its problems, but it usually doesn’t’ make the ...
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• The Daily Sam: Donald Trump and the Trumpites

  November 16, 2009

  • This weekend I was in Miami for the Miami Book Fair International, promoting my book How to Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons—a book that will change your life and a really great gift idea at only $9.99. They put me up in the Hyatt Regency, which, as it happens, was the setting for the official launch of the Trump Network. “Success does not just happen,” Donald Trump has said, ...
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• The Daily Sam: In It for Myself

  November 13, 2009

  • Last night I attended a combined benefit for Glide Memorial Church and celebration of Cecil Williams’ forty-five years of leadership there. Glide serves people who need a helping hand by providing over 750,000 free meals a year, mental and health care, women's programs, after-school programs, literacy classes, job skills training, drug and alcohol recovery programs, free legal services for the ...
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