Opinion Columns
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Debating language rules is copy editor's professional hazardSep 19, 2007 11:00 pm - When it comes to the English language, you must never take anything for granted. It ought to be a simple enough proposition. If the singular referring to the famous sled...
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Hispanic Heritage Month brings new understandingSep 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Hispanic Heritage Month only started a few days ago and already it has produced an epiphany. It came from an unexpected source: a concert by Mexican superstar Luis Migue...
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Hillary could stand to show more spine and less expediencySep 17, 2007 11:00 pm - If there is a phrase more closely associated with both Hillary and Bill Clinton than "the politics of personal destruction," it does not come to mind. All the others -- ...
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With cemetery just a graveyard, O'Hare expansion soarsSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Maybe by osmosis, Monsieur Richard Daley learned some new executive tricks during his most recent European trip. It was paid for by a management consulting firm … althou...
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Petraeus clearly made the case to continue surgeSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Discussing the performance of British troops, Gen. David Petraeus told Sen. Joe Biden of the Foreign Relations Committee that he'd be consulting with British colleagues ...
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Bush has left us to choose between two awful optionsSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - It was no accident that Osama bin Laden timed his videos for Sept. 11. But then again, how fitting it was that the hearings on the Iraq war coincided with the anniversar...
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Best advice on Iraq comes from generals in charge of the warSep 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Iraq divides America. We already knew that. But what became evident after Gen. David Petraeus testified to Congress about progress in Iraq is that the division that real...
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Being thoroughly pillaged leaves one short on sympathySep 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Lab reports, phone messages from doctors, long-term prognoses. None are among my favorite things. But I didn't make Superintendent Connie Neale's health my business. She...
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Republican senator's asking the right questions about IraqSep 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Now that the president has endorsed the Petraeus-Crocker plan for Iraq, it is worthwhile noting one exchange from their Senate hearings. Some senators, such as Barbara B...
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Read this, everyone but Roosevelt Road RobberSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - Of course, you all remember Harry and Marv, the idiot burglars outsmarted by 8-year-old Kevin in the 1990 cult classic, "Home Alone." After each heist, Marv would stop u...