Commentary: Pavlov should have considered studying the French

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President Obama and I were in France last week, he to commemorate the courage of the D-Day veterans, me to find someone brave enough to go up on the roof of my farmhouse.

The roof doesn't leak, but it slumps on one end, the result of an oak beam that snapped back in the 1940s. I can place the time with some certainty because the beam is so big, the crack was heard all over town. And, in a village of 50, something that exciting isn't soon forgotten.

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Commentary: Pavlov should have considered studying the French

Anyway, the previous owners added an assortment of extra supports, tied it all together with metal brackets and bolts and went back to their cheese course. The roof hasn't moved a centimeter in almost 70 years, but no o...

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