Burt Constable
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History will judge Hastert as career ends with whimperNov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - Not since Abraham Lincoln had a politician from Illinois come as close to being president as did Dennis Hastert. As the disputed 2000 presidential election worked its wa...
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Virtually nude Jolie may stimulate medieval lit studyNov 14, 2007 10:00 pm - • "Just don't take any course where you have to read 'Beowulf.' " -- Woody Allen's advice to college-minded Diane Keaton in "Annie Hall." • "I felt exposed." -- Actress ...
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Government can do more than wage war and collect taxesNov 12, 2007 10:00 pm - In the heart of DuPage County, in the shadow of the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway, Illinois Republican heavyweight Jim Ryan is using "The Jim Ryan Symposium on Public A...
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Land of the free should find way to take care of its braveNov 09, 2007 10:00 pm - When Army Maj. Tammy Duckworth came home to the suburbs after leaving both legs and almost an arm on the battlefield in Iraq, she said something I had heard all my life ...
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Reruns -- they're not just for the comedic writersNov 07, 2007 10:00 pm - The writers' strike has all the late-night talk shows running reruns. We newspaper reporters are writers, too. You just might not have realized we are doing the rerun th...
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Ryan's new digs definitely not 'Club Fed'Nov 05, 2007 10:00 pm - If he's lucky, George Ryan will get an uneventful strip search, a pair of comfy khakis, a bottom bunk in a room devoid of snorers, and a job that gives him the potential...
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I think that I shall never see a txt msg as luvly as a letRNov 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Banishing old boxes of junk from our basement, my wife unearthed dozens of letters from her high school and college years. The light, breezy cursive from a teenage frien...
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Giving dead a day helps ease pain and celebrate the lifeOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - This past Friday would have been Jack Mabley's 92nd birthday. He died on Jan. 7 of last year. I miss him and still keep his Daily Herald nameplate in my cubicle to make ...
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Buffalo Grove teen's friends cling to hopeOct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - Wisconsin divers today once again will search for a body in the muddy Baraboo River, as loved ones and friends of missing Stevenson High School senior Lee S. Cutler clin...
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Family, friends not giving up on missing Stevenson studentOct 24, 2007 11:00 pm - BARABOO, Wis. -- The passionate army of family and friends who have come together to try to find missing Stevenson High School student Lee S. Cutler finished another exh...