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RickJ
Feb 27, 2008, 10:35 AM
Author, conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. dies at 82 - Local News Updates - The Boston Globe (http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/02/author_conserva.html)

tomder55
Feb 27, 2008, 10:55 AM
God rest his soul . I have read National Review for some time ;but Buckley had been pretty much semi-retired by the time I started .

Fr_Chuck
Feb 27, 2008, 11:01 AM
Yes, I can remember listening to him for years.

George_1950
Feb 27, 2008, 11:06 AM
... a prodigious disturbance in the Force...

speechlesstx
Feb 27, 2008, 11:20 AM
To borrow from the article, a remarkable "polysyllabic" institution. I rarely watched Firing Line but I used to read his columns... with a dictionary nearby of course. May God rest his soul and his legacy continue...

Dark_crow
Feb 27, 2008, 12:40 PM
The loss of a genuine Gentleman is even greater in view of the fact that there are so few left in America