Opinion Columns
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Times still intent on suppressing speech, except for its ownSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Two days before Christmas in 1967, President Lyndon Johnson, visiting the Vatican, presented Pope Paul VI with a foot-high bust of Lyndon Johnson. Small choices can reve...
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Divergent stories about religion and sexuality needed to be toldSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Anytime it takes more than a year to get something in the newspaper, you really hope it was worth the trouble. So if the virulence -- and diversity -- of opinion on the ...
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GOP's risk in opposing expanded child health careSep 26, 2007 11:00 pm - The spectacle Tuesday of 151 House Republicans voting in lock step with the White House against expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was on...
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History, ethnic strife suggests it's time to partition IraqSep 25, 2007 11:00 pm - The creation of modern India and Pakistan entailed the uprooting of more than 12 million people. Bangladesh was ripped from Pakistan. The creation of Republika Srpska, a...
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Annual Wrigley ritual appears headed for extra inningsSep 24, 2007 11:00 pm - The last home game of the baseball season at Wrigley Field is a Cub fan's holy day of obligation. We members of the faithful flock make the annual pilgrimage to our bas...
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Chuck goes from obscurity to eternity in just monthsSep 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Suddenly, and without warning, the unthinkable has happened. Chuck is the new Jacob. It isn't official yet, but judging by the painful rash of current movies and TV show...
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No one involved in the 'Jena 6' case comes off very wellSep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - When I first heard of the "Jena 6" -- African-American teens in a small Louisiana town charged with beating a white classmate -- my instinct was to side with those screa...
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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 -- ...