Burt Constable
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Humans not the big dog when it comes to eliciting sympathyApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - We do stories every week about a few dozen innocent Iraqi men, women and children who are killed in some explosion or attack -- and about our military people who give th...
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Local writer's book gets star treatmentApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton has signed to star in "The Widows' Adventures," a movie based on the novel of the same name by writer Charles Dickinson of Arlington H...
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'Hotel Rwanda' hero brings genocide story to BenedictineApr 02, 2008 11:00 pm - As the first buds of spring pop on the lush, rolling campus of Benedictine University in Lisle, the topic of genocide seems a world away. So the Catholic university is b...
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Fukudome a ray of sunshine in soggy Cubs openerMar 31, 2008 11:00 pm - On an Opening Day devoted to immortalizing old Cub Ernie Banks with his "Mr. Cub" statue outside Wrigley Field, rookie Cub Kosuke Fukudome made a bid Monday to be the ne...
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Some of my favorite things -- on the North SideMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - The love affair with Wrigley Field starts with its old manual scoreboard that has anchored the ballpark since 1937. Built under the direction of then-Cubs treasurer Bill...
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Free flights bring aging WWII vets to their memorialMar 21, 2008 11:00 pm - More than 1,200 veterans die every day before they get the chance to see the monument in their honor in Washington. Many, such as my dad, Wilson Constable, died before t...
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Some gigs don't mean a thing if they ain't got that swingerMar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - The married New York governor who lost his job because he hired a prostitute for sex was replaced by a guy who had sex with "a number of women" who weren't his wife, whi...
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Palm pilots maketh churches lie down in green pasturesMar 17, 2008 11:00 pm - In a sense, Christian churches' jubilant celebration of Jesus rising from the dead at Easter is the most divine example of recycling. So it makes sense to kick off the H...
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Does 'for better or worse' include $4,300 hookers?Mar 14, 2008 11:00 pm - In a scandal that erupted and reached a conclusion of sorts in just 72 hours this week, a dash of the scorn thrown the way of disgraced Democratic New York Gov. Eliot Sp...
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Hell hath no fury… in fact, Hell's obituary says it's sereneMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - The 87-year-old suburban builder's obituary was short and sweet. Twenty sentences summing up a long life. But his long-ago-divorced first wife's rebuttal to that obituar...