Opinion Columns
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Day of Giving great way to battle apathy in troubled timesAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Philanthropy, I'll bet, is on a downswing. People are struggling to pay for a tank of gas, food at the store and other essentials; how can they find money to give to ch...
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Personal life again becomes political newsAug 13, 2008 11:00 pm - It should be understood at the outset that the John Edwards scandal is not something the Daily Herald would normally investigate, even if we were regular readers of the ...
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Voters need both McCain, Obama to stop the snipingAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - In the time they served together in the U.S. Senate, John McCain and Barack Obama developed neither a friendship nor an intense dislike. They entered this campaign as re...
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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...