Opinion Columns
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Vivid contrasts in style in battle between Giuliani, RomneyNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - BEDFORD, N.H. -- Call them Mr. Rough and Mr. Smooth. Or maybe Mr. Nasty and Mr. Nice. The intense battle between Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney for supremacy in the Jan. ...
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Thread of light runs through dark stories on foreclosure crisisNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - No one takes pleasure in seeing unforeseen circumstances dishevel the lives of families. Yet, these stories can generate something more than sympathy. A fairly simple ma...
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Hope for peace not shared by two mothers who lost their daughtersNov 27, 2007 10:00 pm - On March 29, 2002, an 18-year-old woman walked into a Jerusalem supermarket and blew herself up. One of her victims was a woman just a year younger than herself. The two...
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From bathroom attendant to JFK-era whistleblowerNov 25, 2007 10:00 pm - The holidays are always a difficult stretch for Abraham Bolden. Not only did his wife die at this time of year, but so did his president and so did a little of bit of hi...
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Conservatives can't stray from mission of limits on governmentNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - In the 1920s and '30s, the American left was riven by multiple factions furiously representing different flavors of socialism, each accusing the others of revisionism an...
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A growing school investment providing very little to justify itNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - If this newspaper's School Finance 101 series showed nothing else, it was that Illinois taxpayers have not been pinching pennies on education. Since 1996, state taxpayer...
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Voters want an honest president who would reject partisanshipNov 22, 2007 10:00 pm - Peter Hart, the Democratic pollster whose firm has interviewed thousands of voters this year, says the attributes most of them desire in a president for 2008 can be summ...
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Presidential candidate with good attitude on immigrationNov 22, 2007 10:00 pm - What can I say? Bill Richardson rocks. While John Edwards and Barack Obama were taking shots at Hillary Clinton during the recent CNN Democratic debate in Las Vegas, th...
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On Thanksgiving, find the 'beautiful world' in the newsNov 21, 2007 10:00 pm - Thanksgiving is the day for remembering human virtues, which certainly find their way into the news alongside the hardships and horrors. We live in a harsh world. Cyclon...
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Here's an idea that would make Sweeney Todd proudNov 18, 2007 10:00 pm - Someday, one of the missing wife cases dominating the local news these days might be the subject of a musical. As silly as it sounds, you could be able to get a ticket f...