Opinion Columns
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Bridging the generation gap with Pat BooneMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - How do you like the new mug shot of me? Hard to believe it's five years ago to the month that I started writing this column. Hard to believe, too, how my hair has gotten...
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New era brings new balance to two sides of paper's missionMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - In the inner world of a daily newspaper, the "tell the truth" side of the mission and the "make money" side persist in something of a state of uneasy symbiosis. Each sid...
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A harsh and unfair portrayal of Israeli policyMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - As I wrote this, news was breaking that a Palestinian rocket attack on a college in Sderot, Israel had killed a 47-year-old father of four and wounded several others. It...
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Problematic issue of what to do about the embargo on CubaMar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - On Dec. 29, 1962, 11 months before he was murdered by an advocate for Fidel Castro's regime (Lee Harvey Oswald had distributed propaganda on a New Orleans street for the...
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Make U of I officials explain themselves on veterans programMar 09, 2008 11:00 pm - It certainly wouldn't be as captivating as the hair-in-the-Coke questions that we enjoyed when Clarence Thomas was up for the U.S. Supreme Court. Nor would it be as thri...
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Don't let violence sabotage efforts toward peaceMar 09, 2008 11:00 pm - If there is one certainty in the Middle East, it is violence. When the Arabs and Israelis have been at war, and when they have been at the peace table, violence takes pl...
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Clinton has come back by raising voter doubt about ObamaMar 08, 2008 10:00 pm - She threw the kitchen sink at him. Accused Barack Obama of plagiarism. Mocked his eloquence. Questioned his truthfulness about NAFTA. Wasn't enough. Hillary Clinton sti...
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Insulting, ignorant views of the influence of the Latino voteMar 08, 2008 10:00 pm - Recently, I was in California doing an interview on a New York radio show talking about Texas. Also on the show was an African-American columnist from a newspaper in New...
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Sorry, but even student journalists need bosses, tooMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Let me start by saying I have enormous respect for the accomplishments of the Central Times, the student-run newspaper at Naperville Central High School. More than once ...
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Primary campaign may strengthen the Democrats' chancesMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - In the end, the most memorable line of the primary season may belong to Bill Clinton. He told a church group last month: "I've been waiting all my life to vote for an Af...