Richard Cohen
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A complexity, reduced to shameMay 26, 2010 11:00 pm - As a kid, an abiding fear, reinforced by movies and comic books, was that I would die on some foreign battlefield. I would become a casualty of the war that every genera...
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In decline and denialMay 18, 2010 11:00 pm - Early this month, Barack Obama went down to Louisiana to eyeball the possible damage from the blowout of BP's exploded oil rig, keep the cleanup crews on their toes - no...
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Love in the ruinsMay 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Around 1924, the professor seduced his student. He was 35 and married, she was 18 and single. He was an important philosopher and she was a precocious kid, destined for ...
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Another tea party momentApr 26, 2010 11:00 pm - SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Pretty soon this state will be dicey for blondes. Last week, Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill that allows the police to demand the papers of anyone reas...
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It takes a village to reach Middle East compromiseApr 13, 2010 11:00 pm - Budrus is a Palestinian village just inside the West Bank. "Budrus" is also a documentary about what happened in that village when Israeli authorities tried to use some ...
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Prairie burn planned at Spring Valley Nature CenterApr 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Area residents can see and learn about a controlled prairie burn at sunset Saturday at the Schaumburg Park District's Spring Valley Nature Center at 1111 E. Schaumburg R...
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Where were the parents?Apr 06, 2010 11:00 pm - It is either significant or merely interesting that William Golding dedicated his classic, "Lord of the Flies," to his mother and father. It is precisely the absence of ...
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Google's lonely standMar 30, 2010 11:00 pm - In 1992, Francis Fukuyama published a book with what may be the best title ever: "The End of History and the Last Man." In it, he argued that the end of the Cold War rep...
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On compassion, we're catching upMar 22, 2010 11:00 pm - Mitch McConnell is right. The Republican Senate leader, a man whose vision is to deny others theirs, told The New York Times that President Obama's health care proposal ...
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This is no way to a two-state solutionMar 16, 2010 11:00 pm - What can you say about a 19-year-old woman who participates in a terrorist attack in which 38 people, 13 of them children, are killed? The answer, if the woman is Palest...