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How to deal with family during the holidaysDec 18, 2018 10:00 pm - The family mini van pulls into the drive, making the first path in the new fallen snow. The air is crisp, the night sky clear, the moonlight glistens off the rooftops. ...
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Flying nanny returns in spirited sequel to 'Mary Poppins'Dec 18, 2018 2:30 pm - “Mary Poppins Returns” - ★ ★ ★ It may not be super, but it still qualifies as a califragilisticexpialidocious sequel to Walt Disney's 1964 live-action/animated mashup m...
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Gire on Penny Marshall: Hollywood's most unassuming, barrier-bashing directorDec 18, 2018 12:00 am - I asked budding filmmaker Penny Marshall back in the 1980s what she liked best about directing a movie. "Ooooohh, I'm trying to figure out what I like about it," she rep...
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Feder: Remembering radio's 'great talent' Larry LujackDec 18, 2018 12:00 am - On the fifth anniversary of his passing, Larry Lujack continues to be revered as one of America's greatest radio personalities and Chicago's preeminent disc jockey for t...
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Urban-rural chasm defines new Western political splitDec 18, 2018 12:00 am - For Steve Bannon, the way to create an enduring populist majority is to combine forces on the left and right. That's why he was in Italy earlier this year, where parties...
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Michael Gerson: We need a revival of humanismDec 18, 2018 12:00 am - By Michael Gerson FLORENCE - A tourist in Florentine museums is like a skipping stone above unfathomable depths. Here a Botticelli. There a Donatello. A single room at t...
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Parent's job is to equip for disappointment, not discourageDec 17, 2018 10:00 pm - Q. I have 14-year-old daughter in her first year of high school. Recently, she told me she wants to try out for the drill team in the spring. She had some off-and-on da...
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Shedding light on the importance of darkness to natureDec 17, 2018 5:00 am - "Boy, it's dark!" I mutter at 4:30 p.m. when I leave the nature center. My husband winks as he reminds me that this happens every December and that I say exactly the sam...
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Family bond strong as Paynes team up at StreamwoodDec 17, 2018 12:01 am - When Kent Payne took over as Streamwood's boys basketball coach earlier this year, one of the first things he did was assemble a varsity assistant coaching staff. He did...
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Insurers should be focus of latest workers' comp debateDec 17, 2018 12:00 am - In 2011, at the urging of the state's leading business organizations, bipartisan majorities of Illinois lawmakers approved a workers' compensation overhaul aimed at redu...