Opinion Columns
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World of sports whistled for unsportsmanlike conductApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Having made a living for almost 50 years covering politics, I've never been under any illusions about where it stands in the larger scheme of things. Politics has its fa...
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Chronicling elusive standard of judgment by 'content of character'Apr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Random thoughts: Sometimes the news is its own object lesson. Daily Herald Staff Writer Emily Krone worked for a week and a half to find and interview suburbanites who c...
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Generation gap makes for interesting debate in Clinton-Obama raceApr 07, 2008 11:00 pm - It seems the presidential primary season has outlived its welcome, rather like winter in northern New England where the snowdrifts have delayed our annual appointment wi...
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Evil propaganda used to make 'martyrs' of youthApr 06, 2008 11:00 pm - It's not every day that I welcome anti-Semitic rants on the front page of a newspaper. But last week I was surprised, and yes, perversely pleased, to read on the first p...
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Did those snipers come from the wilderness of Park Ridge?Apr 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Once upon a time, exactly 11 months ago today, I wrote about a little girl who was raised in the Big Woods of Park Ridge. She was named Hillary by her Ma and Pa, for whe...
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War contract corruption just heightens distrustApr 06, 2008 11:00 pm - The growing rift between the Arab World and Western world has to do with perception. Arabs just don't believe Americans live by a single standard of principle and the ru...
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Names may change, but embarrassing outcome never doesApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Image is a lot like a rumor. Somewhere it has a basis in fact. Fact then often skewed to excess, but fact at its heart nonetheless. Nowhere has that been more true than...
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World War II is an example of a war that had to be foughtApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Nicholson Baker, a supremely talented novelist, has written a surprising book of nonfiction titled "Human Smoke." It is composed primarily of snippets taken from contemp...
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Jack Bauer and Smokey the horse jump through hoopsApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - My last column about dogs chronicled the gut-wrenching decision last fall to put to sleep our 13-year-old Boston terrier, Fudge. The upside of losing a dog, I guess, is ...
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Some interesting newsmakers aren't the usual newsmakersApr 02, 2008 11:00 pm - We don't always have to look to Hollywood, Washington or Wrigley Field to find people with the most-interesting or even most influential lives. Where do you go to meet t...