Articles filed under Commentary
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For Obama, it's the economyJan 19, 2010 10:00 pm - As Barack Obama nears the first anniversary of his inauguration as president, a faculty friend of mine renders what strikes me as the right assessment: "If he were a stu...
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'I am the prevailing winds'Jan 18, 2010 10:00 pm - Let me introduce myself. I am Harold Gillibrand or maybe I'm Kirsten Ford, a blending of the Democrats who want to be the next elected senator from New York. I am runnin...
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The British (elections) are comingJan 18, 2010 10:00 pm - BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - The new year kicked-off an election campaign for prime minister of the United Kingdom with a series of soap opera events that grabbed headlin...
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Governator is changing his tuneJan 17, 2010 10:00 pm - Et tu, Arnold? California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is usually a kinder, gentler Republican when it comes to immigrants. So what a shame that Schwarzenegger would, in h...
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Reflections in a glass ceilingJan 16, 2010 10:00 pm - Ask yourself: Who is likely to be the first woman president of the United States? Anyone? Anyone? Despite our assumption that a female president is inevitable, and likel...
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Off the cliff, but catching onJan 16, 2010 10:00 pm - You know the foreboding you feel while watching the steamier Greek tragedies, when dynasties are falling and sons are marrying their mothers and everyone is behaving bad...
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The falling doctrine of global warmingJan 14, 2010 10:00 pm - PORSTEWART, NORTHERN IRELAND - A familiar philosophical question goes like this: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Her...
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A rock on the health care roadJan 13, 2010 10:00 pm - Although Democrats think their health care legislation faces smooth sailing to implementation, there is a rock dead ahead - a constitutional challenge to the legislation...
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The British (elections) are comingJan 12, 2010 10:00 pm - BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - The new year kicked-off an election campaign for prime minister of the United Kingdom with a series of soap opera events that grabbed headlin...
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The awakening of awarenessJan 12, 2010 10:00 pm - To the columnist's obligation to provide a 10-best list of 2009 films, I punt by offering just one. It is "The Baader Meinhof Complex," which Anthony Lane, the film crit...