Articles filed under Commentary
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The human cost of apathyMar 29, 2011 12:00 am - In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed an international conference at Evian-les-Bains, France, to deal with the urgent problem of Jewish refugees from Nazi Ge...
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Aim geostrategic shift in our favorMar 29, 2011 12:00 am - If there were an award for stating the obvious when it comes to the Middle East it would go to The New York Times. On its front page last Friday, the newspaper ran a sto...
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Praise for (some) tea partyersMar 29, 2011 12:00 am - When it comes to my sanity, the tea party often taketh away. I go nuts when they throw out huge sums to cut from budgets without getting into details. Ditto when they ba...
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The power of one cowMar 29, 2011 12:00 am - KUDEMELA, Malawi — Donata Kuchawo’s cow pen is as clean as a well-tended garden. She has only one cow, but she owes it a great deal. The animal divides her life into ch...
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Ignoring the useful tyrantsMar 28, 2011 11:00 pm - Anyone looking for principle and logic in the attack on Moammar Gadhafi’s tyrannical regime will be disappointed. President Obama and his advisers should acknowledge the...
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War No. 3 and Obama’s muddled policyMar 28, 2011 11:00 pm - Libya’s recently resigned ambassador to the U.S., Ali Aujali, is optimistic about the outcome of the bombing of his country. He tells me he thinks dictator Moammar Gadha...
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Opening doors was the way of this fighterMar 28, 2011 12:00 am - We became friends long after we had known each other as candidate and journalist. Long after the grit that Geraldine Ferraro showed facing down press and politicians had...
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Educated, but for what?Mar 28, 2011 12:00 am - Vice President Biden has asked America’s governors to increase the number of college graduates in their states by 50 percent in order to create at least 8 million additi...
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A risky move for a rising GOP starMar 28, 2011 12:00 am - It would be hard to find two more compelling, formidable women in American public life than South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and fellow South Carolinian and philanthropis...
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The delicacies of getting into collegeMar 26, 2011 12:00 am - For many families, this is March madness — the moment of high anxiety concerning higher education as many colleges announce their admittance decisions. It is the culmina...