Burt Constable
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Baseball's preseason ends, Cubs' pre-October beginsApr 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Sure, the Chicago Cubs improved a team that won a National League-best 97 games last season. But that doesn't mean we Cubs fans don't have worries. Our biggest fear is t...
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Hanover Park girl wrestler grapples with successApr 05, 2009 11:00 pm - All eighth-graders know the differences between girls and boys, but they generally don't have the perspective to put it as succinctly as 14-year-old Melissa Kempf of Jan...
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It's election; do you know how old your candidate is?Mar 27, 2009 11:00 pm - That adage about never asking a woman her age is older than, well, how old is it? "That's been a standing joke for as long as I've been alive and before that," says trai...
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Suburban political parties United, Focused for a ChangeMar 25, 2009 11:00 pm - You can't tell the suburban political players without a scorecard. Even with the signs popping up on suburban yards like crocuses, it's confusing. All the suburban polit...
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No poker, golf or trips for bromantically challengedMar 23, 2009 11:00 pm - My thinking is that I'll take my best buddy on one of those "man-dates" to see that "I Love You, Man" movie, interview all the other guys in the theater and write an ins...
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Learning to be tolerant trumps need to learn EnglishMar 20, 2009 11:00 pm - During a week when some Americans celebrated by waving the flag of Ireland on St. Patrick's Day, dozens of comment-posters at www.dailyherald.com got their Irish up. It ...
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Father Quinn lays down the law as Illinois family copesMar 18, 2009 11:00 pm - I don't like paying taxes in the same way I don't like telling my sons that they can't chug Mountain Dew and wolf down Oreos while they stay up until midnight playing vi...
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Playful 'pit bull' doggedly determined to find new jobMar 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Having lost her job on the day before Thanksgiving, 42-year-old Judi DiPillo of Mount Prospect has learned what 8.1 percent of the nation knows. You don't just look at a...
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We get bad luck out of the way before Friday the 13thMar 13, 2009 11:00 pm - It isn't until the police officer taking my crime report asks why the overhead garage door happened to be left open that I piece together just how lousy this week has be...
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Before you leave the 'burbs for this $220K job, make 1 callMar 11, 2009 11:00 pm - While I wait for my son's piano lesson to wind down, I thumb through the "help wanted" section of the weekly paper. It's not as if I expect to find an advertisement read...