Opinion Columns
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Puerto Rico’s revivalNov 18, 2011 4:00 am - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Since the congressional supercommittee appears unable, or unwilling, to take a lesson from Indiana or Virginia — where Republican governors have ...
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Obama’s Catholic strategy in shamblesNov 17, 2011 4:00 am - In 2009, Notre Dame University set off months of intra-Catholic controversy by inviting a champion of abortion rights to deliver its commencement address. When the day a...
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Learning from Gingrich’s damage controlNov 17, 2011 4:00 am - If you take a gander at Newt Gingrich’s Wikipedia page, in the personal section, you’ll see quite a pile of baggage. Most of us have some. He has more than most: three m...
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The angst in giving thanksNov 16, 2011 3:00 am - Americans typically eat over 1,000 meals a year. But for many, Thanksgiving dinner seems to be the one that, like a magnet, gathers the iron shavings of every food anxie...
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Still in the ‘Mad Men’ eraNov 16, 2011 3:00 am - We are deep into the presidential election season — 10 debates on the Republican side, constant campaigning on the Democratic side — and all we can say we have learned f...
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What college football has becomeNov 14, 2011 11:00 pm - A few millennia from now, when archaeologists from an ascendant Brazil or Turkey or wherever sift the shards of American civilization and find the ruins of the Big House...
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The overlooked voting blocNov 14, 2011 11:00 pm - With less than a year until the next general elections, candidates for political office should be making sure they’re not neglecting the most affluent, independent and n...
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Putting AIDS on the road to extinctionNov 14, 2011 4:00 am - After 30 years and 30 million funerals, the end of the global AIDS epidemic is suddenly, unexpectedly, within sight. It would be a final victory for this clever killer i...
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Same candidate keeps winning GOP debatesNov 14, 2011 4:00 am - Don't laugh too hard at Rick Perry for his mortifying episode of brain-lock at Wednesday's GOP presidential candidates' debate. His opponents managed to remember their l...
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Can kinder, gentler candidate thrive in age of anger?Nov 13, 2011 5:00 am - Most Americans would agree that the most memorable moment from Wednesday night’s debate was when Rick um, um, um, whateverhisnameis couldn’t remember the third leg of hi...