Opinion Columns
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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...
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Not much substance to Obama's eloquenceAug 02, 2008 11:00 pm - As the presidential candidates enter the three-month sprint to November, Barack Obama must be wondering: If that did not do it, what will? The antecedent of the pronoun ...
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Shattering the myth that women 'opt out' of workJul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Let me begin by raising a glass of champagne to the official closing of the math gap. It turns out that girls do not lack the math gene. Nor are they math-phobic. A new ...