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New Year's is a time for not only resolutions, but reflectionsDec 28, 2019 5:00 am - We are on the verge of New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Time for the famous, or infamous, New Year's resolutions. My dear husband Baheej believed in formalizing these ...
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Facts Matter: It's OK for Starbucks employees to wish customers a merry ChristmasDec 28, 2019 12:00 am - An Twitter post supposedly from a Starbucks manager threatening to fire employees who wished customers “Merry Christmas” is fake, according to The Associated Press. The...
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Grammar Moses: Don't Fargo a discussion of disparate groupingsDec 28, 2019 12:00 am - Reader Joanne Surratt describes herself as of a generation of proper grammar and writing. To me, that's an indicator that she walked to school uphill both ways, in a sno...
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America's real 'freedom dividend': Hard work and pro-business policiesDec 28, 2019 12:00 am - Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is on to something: Americans could use a big "freedom dividend" - that is, a guaranteed source of income on which they can...
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A Schaumburg nurse was catatonic for months. Then her doctors found a way to wake her up.Dec 28, 2019 12:00 am - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
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Hub Arkush: Just how meaningless is the Bears' game at Minnesota?Dec 27, 2019 11:00 pm - It's kind of that a Chicago Bears season that started with such high hopes will end with what is basically going to be an exhibition game and, for the first time as the ...
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'Parasite,' 'Little Women' and 'Marriage Story' lead list of 2019's best filmsDec 27, 2019 10:00 pm - The best motion pictures of 2019 don't appear to have much in common, except three of them involve sharp blades and a few others involve close shaves. These 10 movies ma...
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Dynamic duos: 10 great screen performances in 2019Dec 27, 2019 5:00 am - No actor does his or her work alone, and many of 2019's finest big- and small-screen performances came in twos. Here are five dynamic duos you'll want to see again: Bean...
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Beer, a bow and arrow and more: The suburbs' oddest crimes in 2019Dec 27, 2019 4:30 am - It wouldn't be wrong to say that every arrest, every criminal charge and every conviction involved some poor choices along the way. But a handful of suburban cases that ...
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O'Donnell: Too hard not to be lookin' back at 2019, peekin' ahead to 2020Dec 27, 2019 12:00 am - WAY BACK WHEN BOB SEGER was still singing hungry, he noted: "Too many people lookin' back." Nonetheless, at the end of a calendar year, that's what media does. So, purel...