Opinion Columns
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Georgian crisis elevates presidential raceAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Asked in 1957 what would determine his government's course, Harold Macmillan, Britain's new prime minister, replied, "Events, dear boy, events." Now, into America's triv...
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CIA'S 'Iron Bob' hired Chicago mob to kill CastroAug 10, 2008 11:00 pm - For one simple reason, nearly all of the notable and notorious from Robert Maheu's life couldn't make it to his funeral over the weekend. They were dead. At age 90, Mahe...
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Presidential race has to get back on the high roadAug 07, 2008 11:00 pm - The first question I asked John McCain and then Barack Obama was: How do you feel about the tone and direction of the campaign so far? No surprise. Both men pronounced t...
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8/8/88 memories: 40,000 flashbulbs, Geraldo and usAug 07, 2008 11:00 pm - How, I wondered, am I going to convince the boss my reflections on the 20th anniversary of the first Cubs night game would be relevant column fodder from the DuPage edit...
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Democrats out of touch on energy policyAug 07, 2008 11:00 pm - Let's see: housing meltdown, credit crunch, oil shock not seen since the 1970s. The economy is slowing, unemployment growing and inflation increasing. It's the sixth yea...
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Even simple apostrophe can be complicatedAug 06, 2008 11:00 pm - A thoughtful reader recently wondered in an e-mail correspondence how our writers distinguish the punctuation in such phrases as Cubs' season and Cubs GM Jim Hendry or W...
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Still prefer to warm up to a good bookAug 06, 2008 11:00 pm - BOULDER, Colo. - On an average day when I am here, I amble over to the Boulder Book Store. I often just browse - it's a very good bookstore - and sometimes I buy somethi...
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Racial preferences hurt those they're supposed to helpAug 05, 2008 11:00 pm - I've written about affirmative action for more than 20 years. That is, if you start the clock back in high school when I felt compelled to write a term paper on the topi...
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Car booting might be an event at Chicago OlympicsAug 03, 2008 11:00 pm - News headline: MAYOR DALEY TO TRAVEL TO CHINA OLYMPICS TO STUDY TRAFFIC News headline: MAYOR DALEY WANTS TO INCREASE BOOTS PLACED ON SCOFFLAW CARS On the very same day, ...
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Praise for Congress on housing billAug 03, 2008 11:00 pm - If you were to ask Democrats Barney Frank and Chris Dodd - the principal architects of the massive housing bill signed Wednesday by President Bush - which of its many fe...