Articles filed under Commentary
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We can’t afford any leaders like BlagoJun 08, 2011 4:00 am - The second Blagojevich trial is thankfully less complicated than the first, and better understood. Rod Blagojevich knows that he is in serious trouble and his antics and...
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The oxymoronic presidentJun 08, 2011 4:00 am - I once worked for an editor who banned the word “oxymoron.” I don’t know why. It’s a good word, meaning a contradiction in terms. The dictionary offers some examples: “w...
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‘News’ that frees up timeJun 07, 2011 12:00 am - Keeping up with the always-spinning news cycle can eat into a media hound’s free time. Thus, I’m grateful when cable television plugs its news holes with stories of no c...
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The NFL's labor painsJun 07, 2011 12:00 am - Although his Park Avenue office in New York is as quiet as an empty stadium, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell sits atop a seething volcano of fans who will erupt if traini...
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New direction of the bias debateJun 05, 2011 8:00 pm - CHICAGO — Scholars from the Harvard Business School and Tufts University’s department of psychology recently confirmed the obvious in contemporary American race relation...
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Budget cutting can have a conscienceJun 05, 2011 8:00 pm - WASHINGTON — British Prime Minister David Cameron has emerged as the most admirable of anomalies: the budget-cutter as leader of conscience. If relocated to America, Ca...
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Our salutary debt-ceiling scareJun 04, 2011 7:00 pm - As the sun rises in the east, the debt ceiling will be raised. Getting there, however, will be harrowing. Which is a good thing. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner warns t...
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The one who’s grabbing the attentionJun 02, 2011 12:00 am - “The Rules” urged women trying to hook a man to play “hard to get.” As insulting, dehumanizing and childish as the rules might have been (for instance, say no if he does...
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The Huntsman factorJun 02, 2011 12:00 am - Donald Trump's pathological political exhibitionism has ended, Newt Gingrich has incinerated himself with an incoherent retraction tour, Mitt Romney has reaffirmed his e...
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Crime and the recessionJun 01, 2011 5:00 am - “Counter to the prevailing expectation that crime would increase during a recession,” it actually dropped last year and violent crime is now at nearly a 40-year low. So ...