04-Sep-2008
Story Timeline: 91 days
DAVID POGUE New York Times News Service September 4, 2008 at 2:11 PM EDT Years ago, I had a computer student I'll call Mrs. K, whose specialty was negativity. Her ability to find fault with absolutely anything amounted to a gift. Glorious fall foliage? Too much raking. The Sound of Music? Manipulative, sappy, two-dimensional. Mother Teresa? Overhyped. It must have been a relative of Mrs. K, then, who came up...
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