Articles filed under Opinion
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Georgian crisis elevates presidential raceAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Asked in 1957 what would determine his government's course, Harold Macmillan, Britain's new prime minister, replied, "Events, dear boy, events." Now, into America's triv...
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Presidential race has to get back on the high roadAug 07, 2008 11:00 pm - The first question I asked John McCain and then Barack Obama was: How do you feel about the tone and direction of the campaign so far? No surprise. Both men pronounced t...
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Democrats out of touch on energy policyAug 07, 2008 11:00 pm - Let's see: housing meltdown, credit crunch, oil shock not seen since the 1970s. The economy is slowing, unemployment growing and inflation increasing. It's the sixth yea...
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Even simple apostrophe can be complicatedAug 06, 2008 11:00 pm - A thoughtful reader recently wondered in an e-mail correspondence how our writers distinguish the punctuation in such phrases as Cubs' season and Cubs GM Jim Hendry or W...
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Still prefer to warm up to a good bookAug 06, 2008 11:00 pm - BOULDER, Colo. - On an average day when I am here, I amble over to the Boulder Book Store. I often just browse - it's a very good bookstore - and sometimes I buy somethi...
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Shattering the myth that women 'opt out' of workJul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Let me begin by raising a glass of champagne to the official closing of the math gap. It turns out that girls do not lack the math gene. Nor are they math-phobic. A new ...
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Senate to White House is hard transitionJul 29, 2008 11:00 pm - One of the wisest men I ever knew in Washington was the late James H. Rowe Jr. He came out of Montana, went to Harvard Law School and was recruited by Felix Frankfurter...
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Wrong to oppose enforcement of immigration lawsJul 29, 2008 11:00 pm - In the immigration wars, you have to choose your battles carefully. Otherwise, you wind up preaching to the choir. Nativists on the far right make bad choices when they...
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History behind call for troop withdrawalJul 28, 2008 11:00 pm - With characteristic self-absorption, Americans are looking at Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's statements about a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops in terms of our...
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Obama's trip to Europe is not a high-risk ventureJul 24, 2008 11:00 pm - It made no sense when Barack Obama left the country on his nine-day overseas tour for some of my fellow columnists to describe it as a high-risk venture. Foreign leaders...