Columns
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Moms and babies are 'package deal'Apr 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. I am the proud grandmother of two beautiful granddaughters, 5 months old and 2 months old. They are the daughters of two of my sons, the first for each. I am impa...
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With Dusty, you take the good with the badApr 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Dusty Baker's four-year tenure as manager of the Cubs was one of the more eventful in recent team history. Baker blew into town in November 2002 and actually had to temp...
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Par for the course: Woods comes up short and he's doneApr 14, 2008 11:00 pm - So much for the reign of Tiger Woods. The King is dead. Long live the King. Not only did the Great One fail to make up a 6-shot deficit Sunday in the Masters, with Augus...
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In Mexico, the building boom ragesApr 14, 2008 11:00 pm - PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico -- Standing on our 10th-floor balcony at the Westin, my wife hands me her binoculars. "I think they added the verticals for another three floors ...
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Time to bury good vibrations in this 'rivalry'Apr 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Over the weekend I took my first look at "Champions Plaza" located just outside Gate 4 at Comiskey Park. White Sox fans were gawking at the shrine to their 2005 World Se...
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Acevado receives conference honors for red-hot CarthageApr 14, 2008 11:00 pm - The change in scenery and state obviously agrees with Jason Acevado of Vernon Hills. Carthage College (Kenosha, Wis.) first baseman Acevado, a transfer from Bradley in ...
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Son's birthday party dodgeball leaves one of us in stitchesApr 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Five minutes before we should leave Sunday for our youngest son's 9th-birthday party -- a 16-kid dodgeball extravaganza -- I load the treats and goody bags into the fami...
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TCM special (finally) gives comedian Wilder his dueApr 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Gene Wilder plays "Role Model" to Alec Baldwin in a wide-ranging TCM interview. It's hard to believe now, but there was a time 30 years ago when Gene Wilder was one of t...
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Good birds can turn foul when humans get in the wayApr 14, 2008 11:00 pm - After last week's column about a wild goose chase during nesting season, I began to feel like, say, Mother Goose. Though none of the tales rhymed, from the Naperville A...
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'Juno' a real bundle of joy as Page shinesApr 14, 2008 11:00 pm - "Juno" -- The first 20 minutes of "Juno" had me worried. The teenspeak dialogue sounded too cute, too precious, too much like "Dawson's Creek." Then something wonder...