Articles filed under Opinion
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Republicans’ obsession with ObamacareOct 09, 2011 12:00 am - By most of the usual measures, President Obama has no business being re-elected. Here’s why he might be anyway. On Wednesday morning, as Senate Democratic leaders were s...
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Shaking the foundations of modern physicsOct 09, 2011 12:00 am - “We don’t allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here,” says the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar. #8212; Joke circulating on the Internet The worl...
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Locked up abroad: What Americans need to think aboutOct 08, 2011 5:00 am - Anyone who has ever watched an American cop show on TV knows that when you’re arrested in the United States, you have the right to legal representation. But did you know...
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Quality over quantity in higher edOct 07, 2011 12:00 am - Jobs, jobs, jobs, we keep hearing. But for whom, whom, whom? Certainly not for the many young Americans being graduated from colleges that have prepared them inadequate...
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A ‘Fantasia’ guide to GOP primary politicsOct 07, 2011 12:00 am - You can’t blame Chris Christie for not running. Monied Republicans had been urging the popular New Jersey governor to seek their party’s nomination for president. But by...
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One edition: There’s a theme here somewhereOct 06, 2011 5:00 am - Last Sunday’s Daily Herald contains an interesting lesson in democracy. I’m not exactly sure what it is, but consider the circumstances and see what you come up with. Th...
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Forgiveness, courage in a new yearOct 06, 2011 5:00 am - No, it’s not January yet, or even December. But last week, Jews around the world began celebrating the Jewish New Year, a two-day celebration followed 10 days later, sta...
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It’s Christie’s temper, not his weightOct 05, 2011 5:00 am - Chris Christie must have spent the last week feeling a bit like one of those bodies on a crime show. He was picked and poked, turned this way and that, examined from hea...
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Does Romney’s Mormonism matter?Oct 05, 2011 5:00 am - As a Mormon who did his missionary work in France, Mitt Romney knows something of uphill battles. Imagine spreading a faith that renounces smoking, coffee and alcohol in...
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A liberation of identityOct 05, 2011 12:00 am - I’m sure that as the one-named author Toure worked on his just-released “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now,” he thought he was exploring only...