Articles filed under Opinion
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Stop your panderingApr 24, 2012 5:00 am - Little else brings me as much joy as learning a new word — especially if it perfectly captures the spirit of the moment. “Hispandering” — isn’t that great? I can’t bel...
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Our turbulent skiesApr 17, 2012 5:00 am - DALLAS — From his office window, Thomas W. Horton, in his fifth month as CEO of American Airlines, can see in the distance the Manhattan-size footprint of Dallas-Fort Wo...
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Education and activism -- a fine lineApr 17, 2012 5:00 am - We are now a nation of activists living in a “movement” society. If something upsets enough of us, we try to get the situation rectified through online or actual take-to...
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Lessons from LondonApr 16, 2012 5:00 am - LONDON — The United Kingdom is in the midst of the great pasty crisis of 2012 — which, incidentally, has nothing to do with the garb of exotic dancers. The pasty is a ho...
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The Buffett RuleApr 16, 2012 5:00 am - If you haven’t heard of the Buffett Rule, you will. It’s already emerging as one of the key themes of the presidential race, and if it isn’t already known as the Romney ...
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Free-lunch egalitarianismApr 15, 2012 5:00 am - Here we go again. At the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama argued that the country’s spiraling debt was largely the result of exploding health care costs. That ...
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Naperville Rotary Club talk leads to digital angstApr 15, 2012 5:00 am - I approached Bob Smith, our intrepid city editor, with an urgent request: Bob, I said, we have to find a way to make this work so I don’t look like an idiot. The occasio...
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Latest girl fight merely a diversionApr 15, 2012 5:00 am - For reasons that don’t interest me much, “girl fights” have always had a particular tug on our imaginations. Thus, when consultant/pundit/Democrat Hilary Rosen commente...
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Ozzie in need of remedial math, social science tutoringApr 12, 2012 12:29 pm - When I asked my mom what she thought about Ozzie Guillen’s recent comments regarding Fidel Castro, she replied, “Echarle vinagre a una herida!;” a Cuban saying which tra...
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Titanic: The realityApr 12, 2012 1:00 am - BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Here, where Titanic, the massive White Star Line luxury liner, was built — the joke for years has been, “It was fine when it left here.” This...