The friendship of these three women and the central character’s relationship with her daughter, Rose, are among the most charming things about the Danish TV series “Dicte.” Dicte is a police reporter for a Danish newspaper. She always beats investigator John Wagner to the crime scene, and every front-page crime in Denmark’s second largest city …

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Photos I’ve enjoyed looking at during chemo and radiation treatment for lung cancer.  Hope and Matt, Jefferson County Rodeo, Boulder, Montana, August 2014. Jane, Trinket and Chance, summer day. Cooper and Sara tearing up what’s left of poor Mike’s buffalo grass. Happy Tom: Ranger Rick and big cousin Will’s old soccer shoes. Larry Calloway’s 5-year-old …

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— I think Lady Mary of “Downton Abbey” arranged to have a hit man take out that horrible guy Green. Or her suitor, Lord Gillingham, had it done. — “Ulzana’s Raid,” starring Burt Lancaster, is a fine and under-recognized Western movie. I think of it it just about every Wednesday. — James Thurber’s story “The …

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