Opinion Columns
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Breast cancer hits close to homeOct 09, 2011 12:00 am - A West Chicago youth football team wearing pink socks; health organizations from Aurora, Barrington and Naperville preparing pink-themed videos. Those are just two of th...
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Quality over quantity in higher edOct 07, 2011 12:00 am - Jobs, jobs, jobs, we keep hearing. But for whom, whom, whom? Certainly not for the many young Americans being graduated from colleges that have prepared them inadequate...
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A ‘Fantasia’ guide to GOP primary politicsOct 07, 2011 12:00 am - You can’t blame Chris Christie for not running. Monied Republicans had been urging the popular New Jersey governor to seek their party’s nomination for president. But by...
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One edition: There’s a theme here somewhereOct 06, 2011 5:00 am - Last Sunday’s Daily Herald contains an interesting lesson in democracy. I’m not exactly sure what it is, but consider the circumstances and see what you come up with. Th...
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Forgiveness, courage in a new yearOct 06, 2011 5:00 am - No, it’s not January yet, or even December. But last week, Jews around the world began celebrating the Jewish New Year, a two-day celebration followed 10 days later, sta...
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It’s Christie’s temper, not his weightOct 05, 2011 5:00 am - Chris Christie must have spent the last week feeling a bit like one of those bodies on a crime show. He was picked and poked, turned this way and that, examined from hea...
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Does Romney’s Mormonism matter?Oct 05, 2011 5:00 am - As a Mormon who did his missionary work in France, Mitt Romney knows something of uphill battles. Imagine spreading a faith that renounces smoking, coffee and alcohol in...
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A liberation of identityOct 05, 2011 12:00 am - I’m sure that as the one-named author Toure worked on his just-released “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now,” he thought he was exploring only...
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Federalism, coercedOct 04, 2011 12:00 am - Obama Gives States a Voice In ‘No Child’ #8212; New York Times, Sept. 24 Many Americans, having grown accustomed to Caesarism, probably see magnanimity in that...
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Why Abbas went to the U.N.Oct 03, 2011 4:00 am - While diplomatically inconvenient for the Western powers, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ attempt to get the U.N. to unilaterally declare a Palestinian st...