Articles filed under Opinion
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Case of teen culture run amokSep 04, 2013 5:00 am - Miley Cyrustwerked. I had to look up the word since my indefatigable spell checker had no idea what I meant. I discovered from Wikipedia that twerking “involves a person...
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Impeachment is the right’s new lost causeSep 03, 2013 5:00 am - Sometimes politics is like high-stakes poker. If you look around the table after a few hands and you can’t tell who’s the pigeon, citizen, chances are it’s you: the guy ...
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The preacher and the politicianSep 03, 2013 5:00 am - A speech at the Lincoln Memorial, on the 50th anniversary of perhaps the greatest American speech since Lincoln breathed his last, is a speechwriter’s nightmare. It is c...
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Fast-food strikes only fight the futureSep 01, 2013 5:00 am - Last week, labor-backed walkouts targeted fast-food outlets in over a dozen major American cities from coast to coast, including Chicago. Workers were demanding a more-t...
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Miley’s mandate: Return to pruderyAug 30, 2013 12:27 pm - MOUNTAINTOP, N.C. — If opinions differ on Miley Cyrus’ raunchy performance during MTV’s recent Video Music Awards, on one thing we all can agree: Miley loves her tongue....
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Political gaps not as wide as they appearAug 29, 2013 11:02 am - As I speak to people about the Congress, one question arises more than any other: Why is Congress gridlocked? People are perplexed and disappointed with its performance,...
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Filling the fertility gap in EuropeAug 29, 2013 5:00 am - MONTERCHI, ITALY — It was a lovely summer evening. Large families filled the terrace at La Pieve Vecchio, a restaurant occupying an old convent on the outskirts of this ...
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Outside Syria, difficult adjustmentsAug 29, 2013 5:00 am - ZAATRI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan — I ask a Syrian refugee named Isra why her 8-year-old boy isn’t attending the camp school. “He doesn’t like school,” she explains. At home i...
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Feeling powerless all aroundAug 28, 2013 5:00 am - The late Katharine Graham was often called one of the most powerful women in the world. You can see why. She controlled The Washington Post, Newsweek, a bevy of televisi...
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The wrong conversation about raceAug 28, 2013 5:00 am - If I had a son, he would look like Christopher Lane, the 22-year-old Australian baseball player shot dead while jogging in Oklahoma. If I had a father, he’d look like De...