Opinion Columns
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Kids out of controlMay 12, 2010 11:00 pm - I have no idea what five students at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif., have in mind by way of career plans, but they should take up acting. They're good at it...
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The fine art of writing a 'head' to rememberMay 12, 2010 11:00 pm - It's funny what sticks with you over the years. Many of us who got into journalism did so to try to make a difference in our communities or to be close to "where the act...
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Love in the ruinsMay 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Around 1924, the professor seduced his student. He was 35 and married, she was 18 and single. He was an important philosopher and she was a precocious kid, destined for ...
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How a Cohen run could do more harm than goodMay 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Illinois politics has, in the past, had some amazing twists and turns. We have seen Election Day backstabbing or knifing, strange political coalitions form and then disa...
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Sounds of insecurityMay 10, 2010 11:00 pm - In a TV commercial about buying gold, former Watergate figure and current radio talk show host Gordon Liddy transfers several coins from one hand to the other and says, ...
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Terror try exposes Backslapping and Personal Admiration SocietyMay 09, 2010 11:00 pm - The "Mission Accomplished" banner should have taught public officials a few lessons. When President George W. Bush stood on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln with that...
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A changed AmericaMay 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Fifty years ago, when he was writing what is still the best account ever of a presidential election campaign, "The Making of the President 1960," Theodore H. White devot...
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It's Greek to meMay 08, 2010 11:00 pm - It really is. Take a look at the front page of Drudge, or any of the news broadcasts, and it's enough to break the heart of all of us who love almost all things Greek. I...
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Miranda and public safetyMay 08, 2010 11:00 pm - "(Law enforcement) interviewed Mr. Shahzad ... under the public safety exception to the Miranda rule. ... He was eventually ... Mirandized and continued talking." - John...
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False-memory syndromeMay 03, 2010 11:00 pm - If you haven't heard the name Sue Lowden, brace yourself. She is a Republican who might well become a U.S. senator from Nevada, and judging by her idea for containing he...