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Released in September, “Josie: A True Story of Race, Rescue and Resilience” is based on a true story close to Todd Smith’s own life. It follows the life of a black woman named Josie, who was taken in by Smith’s great-grandparents after she was abandoned at birth in the small town of D’Lo, Mississippi, in 1906.

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What’s in a name? Does defining a concept or person with a single word really capture its essence?

Until recently, no, especially words like “outrage,” “victim” and, until recently, “rape.”

However, on Jan. 6, the Federal Bureau of Investigation made a historic change in the national definition of rape that expands recognition to victims of a horrible crime that had previously been ignored.

As our economy recovers from the bursting of the housing bubble, some warn another is looming on the horizon.

The phrase “higher-education bubble” was first popularized by Glenn Reynolds, a distinguished professor of law at the University of Tennessee. In his book, “The Higher-Education Bubble,” he defines the term:

“Bubbles form when too many people expect values to go up forever.”

There’s an old saw that gets repeated with some frequency around Baylor.

It goes, “There’s nothing to do that’s fun around Waco.”

Well, to some extent that’s true. Encouraging growth downtown has been the goal of various organizations in Waco for nearly 50 years.

“Beware lads the ‘Gold Rush’ is on.”

This was the warning for men on campus in a 1936 publication of the Lariat, preserved in an old Round Up yearbook, when a band of Baylor ladies formed the Golddiggers Club.

Yes. I said Golddiggers, as in women who care more about a man’s bank account than they do about the man.

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