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Generations aren't as different as we like to thinkJan 05, 2008 10:00 pm - Listening to a young minister preaching in a church I was visiting, I found myself feeling somewhat condescending in response to her intellectualized, dry and mind-dulli...
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Halfway there and everything looks…bad?Jan 05, 2008 10:00 pm - One by one, they passed us by outside the locker room. Batavia boys basketball fans, all of them. And each wore a scowl as they descended the stairs from the upper balco...
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No room at the inn and no refund for pricier propertyJan 05, 2008 10:00 pm - Q. What if you prepay for a hotel but there's no room for you? I recently made a reservation through Priceline.com using the site's Name Your Own Price feature, and ...
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Are you game to go to an inn?Jan 05, 2008 10:00 pm - Will 2008 be the year the kids have graduated from chain hotels on the interstate to that much more gracious mode of accommodation, the bed-and-breakfast? Take a look at...
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After Tennessee train wreck, some good news for BrunoJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - At least this week wasn't a total loss for DePaul women's basketball coach Doug Bruno. Just two days after his No. 15 Blue Demons got hammered on their own court by thir...
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15 years later, Naperville still has what we're looking forJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - I first stepped foot in Naperville on New Year's Day 1993. At the time, we lived in Chatham, N.J., population 8,500, but I was eager to move back to the Midwest, closer...
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Illinois schools struggling to get controlJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - With a transit funding crisis and federal probes of the governor's pals, an NCAA Tournament shutout isn't the chief concern for men's basketball fans in Illinois. But it...
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Great chairs, not much patternJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - It's always informative to see how designers redo and decorate their own homes. The pros featured in the January/February Metropolitan Home obviously spend a lot of time...
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'Missed Call' is cell-out with no suspenseJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - Taylor (Ana Claudia Talancon) is menaced by "Monster Ellie" (Sarah Kubik) during a cell phone exorcism in "One Missed Call." Phony horror film a suspenseless cell-out ...
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You'll get more out of exercising when you enjoy your workoutJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - What is the first thing on nearly everyone's minds this time of year? Maybe something like: "I have to get moving and stop feeling like such a slug!" For years I watched...