Articles filed under Commentary
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One can be the deadliest numberMar 26, 2014 5:01 am - "'Sophie, Sophie, don't die! Stay alive for the children,' the dying Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand urged his wife as she slumped over him in the open-topped sports c...
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For the pope, it's primarily about the soulMar 25, 2014 5:01 am - This week's meeting between Pope Francis and President Obama holds great promise in a time of turmoil, though not necessarily in the ways some may hope. In anticipation...
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Can Obama rise to Carter's level?Mar 23, 2014 5:01 am - As Winston Churchill might have said, the battle for Crimea is over. The battle for the idea of Europe is about to begin. Russia - as one might expect from an espiocrac...
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Photo shoot turns into something specialMar 23, 2014 5:00 am - The lead-in headline to Monday's Caring in Action feature says it all: “The 10 members of the Daily Herald's DuPage Leadership Team met for the first time in December fo...
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Bipartisanship lessons from the youngMar 21, 2014 5:01 am - A chance meeting by two young women in Springfield has blossomed into a direct challenge to the ugly partisanship that is polarizing America. The two women are from the...
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Being Vladimir PutinMar 20, 2014 5:01 am - "Once an agent, always an agent." This was the terse response of Nina Khrushcheva on New Year's Eve 1999 when her mother commented favorably about the new president, Vl...
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Another object lesson in the problems with political pollsMar 20, 2014 5:01 am - Now about those political polls ... In sports, the common epithet when the lesser of two seemingly unevenly matched opponents wins or very nearly wins is "that's why the...
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The charter conspiratorsMar 19, 2014 5:01 am - In the war between the rich and the poor, I'm enlisting on the side of the underdog - the rich. What a drubbing they've been taking! Across the nation, but particularly ...
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Where Congress falls short, and where it doesn'tMar 19, 2014 5:01 am - At a public gathering the other day, someone asked me how I'd sum up my views on Congress. It was a good question, because it forced me to step back from worrying about ...
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Making the AIDS crisis worseMar 18, 2014 5:01 am - Some of America's closest friends in Africa have turned with a vengeance on gay people. In Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan recently approved a law making homosexual...