Opinion Columns
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Why good factory jobs go beggingApr 12, 2012 10:43 am - Animal rescue once sent me a fabulous mutt. She was usually obedient and heartbreaking in eagerness to please. But I couldn’t get her into the basement. I’d go down the ...
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A public storm, reassurance all on one front pageApr 12, 2012 9:04 am - Is it possible that an emotional uproar can reinforce confidence in the stability of our democracy? I think so. Consider these two very different stories — the furor ove...
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Titanic: The realityApr 12, 2012 1:00 am - BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Here, where Titanic, the massive White Star Line luxury liner, was built — the joke for years has been, “It was fine when it left here.” This...
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Appealing to the human voteApr 11, 2012 5:00 am - Mitt Romney’s electoral trouble with women — more precisely with college-educated women — is real enough. Recent polling has Romney trailing President Obama by 18 points...
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The car the right wing can’t killApr 10, 2012 5:00 am - Imagine that. Former Republican President George H.W. Bush recently bought his son Neil a Chevrolet Volt as a birthday present. This is the car that all right-thinking r...
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The real IkeApr 09, 2012 5:53 pm - One day in 1967, Dwight D. Eisenhower came to New York for the opening of an exhibit of his paintings at the old Huntington Hartford Museum on Columbus Circle. Ike, lik...
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Mitt unzippedApr 09, 2012 5:00 am - Mitt Romney “unzipped” is the stuff of cartoonists’ dreams. The image suggested came from none other than his wife, Ann, when a Baltimore radio interviewer asked whethe...
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What happened to Trayvon Martin?Apr 09, 2012 5:00 am - What happened to Trayvon Martin? The short answer: I don’t know. I know that he was shot by George Zimmerman while wearing a hoodie and carrying Skittles. No weapons of ...
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The killing fields of childhoodApr 08, 2012 5:00 am - MONGU, Zambia — In a global anti-malaria movement I saw begin in Oval Office meetings and international summits, Mongu is at the end of a very long road. Located in west...
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COD-faculty dispute takes on a life of its ownApr 08, 2012 5:00 am - Early this year, I relayed the story of how I suggested to group of suburban school superintendents many years ago that contract talks between the administration and fac...