Opinion Columns
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The oxymoronic presidentJun 08, 2011 4:00 am - I once worked for an editor who banned the word “oxymoron.” I don’t know why. It’s a good word, meaning a contradiction in terms. The dictionary offers some examples: “w...
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‘News’ that frees up timeJun 07, 2011 12:00 am - Keeping up with the always-spinning news cycle can eat into a media hound’s free time. Thus, I’m grateful when cable television plugs its news holes with stories of no c...
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The NFL's labor painsJun 07, 2011 12:00 am - Although his Park Avenue office in New York is as quiet as an empty stadium, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell sits atop a seething volcano of fans who will erupt if traini...
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New direction of the bias debateJun 05, 2011 8:00 pm - CHICAGO — Scholars from the Harvard Business School and Tufts University’s department of psychology recently confirmed the obvious in contemporary American race relation...
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Budget cutting can have a conscienceJun 05, 2011 8:00 pm - WASHINGTON — British Prime Minister David Cameron has emerged as the most admirable of anomalies: the budget-cutter as leader of conscience. If relocated to America, Ca...
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Our salutary debt-ceiling scareJun 04, 2011 7:00 pm - As the sun rises in the east, the debt ceiling will be raised. Getting there, however, will be harrowing. Which is a good thing. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner warns t...
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Why you had to go elsewhere for Noah’s quoteJun 03, 2011 12:00 am - Now that the topic of personal slurs has died down, I’d like to stir up that hornet’s nest again. Actually, the topic is closer to how we handle racial and cultural slur...
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The one who’s grabbing the attentionJun 02, 2011 12:00 am - “The Rules” urged women trying to hook a man to play “hard to get.” As insulting, dehumanizing and childish as the rules might have been (for instance, say no if he does...
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The Huntsman factorJun 02, 2011 12:00 am - Donald Trump's pathological political exhibitionism has ended, Newt Gingrich has incinerated himself with an incoherent retraction tour, Mitt Romney has reaffirmed his e...
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Crime and the recessionJun 01, 2011 5:00 am - “Counter to the prevailing expectation that crime would increase during a recession,” it actually dropped last year and violent crime is now at nearly a 40-year low. So ...