Today we think of Theodore Roosevelt as a larger-than-life figure, but before he became a U.S. president or legendary outdoorsman, rancher or Rough Rider, he was a “thin pale youngster with bad eyes and a weak heart,”

There’s a sunny inevitability about “Invictus.” You know the good guys are going to win. It is, after all, a true story and the truth is that the South African team won the rugby World Cup in 1995.

GOULDSBORO — When Lenny Boucher lost his job at the Jay paper mill last year, work opportunities weren’t very abundant.

There is a long running race in America, a sales marathon if you will, with huge bragging rights, prestige and large economic consequences at stake year after year.