Richard Cohen
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In the way and out the windowSep 22, 2009 11:00 pm - The Defenestration of Prague occurred in 1618 when two royal officials were summarily thrown out of some rather high windows and landed, as luck would have it and histor...
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Jury awards $5 million to woman who had unnecessary hysterectomySep 16, 2009 11:00 pm - A Cook County jury late Wednesday afternoon awarded $5 million to a Northwest suburban woman who sued a doctor for performing what her attorneys said was an unnecessary ...
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Charles Rangel: The entitled oneSep 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Once upon a time, before I began an interview with Rep. Charles Rangel, I was warned by an aide not to bring up the 1970 race in which the upstart Rangel defeated the vi...
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8 years later, our revenge is incompleteSep 08, 2009 11:00 pm - This week it will be eight years since I fled my office and rushed down to Lower Manhattan. Two planes had hit the World Trade Center - I had seen that on television - a...
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Tortured by our questionsSep 01, 2009 11:00 pm - Call him Ishmael. Call him a terrorist or a suicide bomber or anything else you want, but understand that he is willing - no, eager - to give his life for his cause. Cal...
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Obama's a teacher without a lesson planAug 25, 2009 11:00 pm - Let's go back to that "teachable moment." It was proclaimed by Barack Obama after he said that police in Cambridge, Mass., had acted "stupidly" in arresting Henry Louis ...
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Palin's 'ism' factor: Following the footsteps of Joseph McCarthyAug 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Try this on for size: Palinism. What is it? It is an updated version of McCarthyism, which takes it name from the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin liar, demagogu...
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On Vick, excusing the inexcusableAug 11, 2009 11:00 pm - With team after team turning him down, the question regarding Michael Vick, thrower of football and killer of dogs, is not whether he will return to the NFL or even whet...
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What if Palin had risen to power?Jul 07, 2009 11:00 pm - In his novel "The Plot Against America," Philip Roth imagined that Charles Lindbergh, an isolationist and an anti-Semite (but a heck of a flier), ran for president in 19...
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Showing respect for what we don't knowJun 23, 2009 11:00 pm - The foreign policy sins of the United States fall into two categories: commission and omission. Commission includes wars in Vietnam and Iraq, and a one-time Latin Americ...