Articles filed under Opinion
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A worry-free life is no life at allMay 27, 2011 12:00 am - I was bouncing back and forth between worrying about my daughter flying to Ukraine (very far away, four connections, an airline I’d never heard of, very far away) and wo...
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A Medicare moment for RepublicansMay 26, 2011 5:00 am - Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the architect of the Republicans’ radical plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program, gave a lesson Sunday in stating the obvious: “I don’...
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The urgency of now in Arab-Israeli relationsMay 25, 2011 5:00 am - Every man has a father, and Benjamin Netanyahu’s is worth knowing. He is Benzion Netanyahu, born 101 years ago in what was soon to become Poland and living now in what h...
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Eat, drink and watch outMay 25, 2011 5:00 am - Once upon a time, Ma would say: “Sit up and eat your vegetables.” Pa said: “Don’t talk with your mouth full.” Other common utterances included: “Go outside and play.” An...
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Pride, solidarity for newspaper in a time of tragedyMay 25, 2011 12:00 am - Publisher Michael Beatty probably wasn’t surprised. I know he is proud. And I don’t even know him. Or any of the reporters, editors and photographers, pressmen, artists ...
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Women on trialMay 24, 2011 5:00 am - Shame on The New York Times. A housekeeper gets pregnant by the famous and powerful man for whom she works. For 10 years, she continues to work in the home and never sa...
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Golden State bluesMay 24, 2011 5:00 am - SACRAMENTO — In 1967, five years after California became the most populous state, novelist Wallace Stegner said California — energetic, innovative, hedonistic — was Amer...
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All games and no talkMay 22, 2011 12:00 am - From the moment I heard the tensely throbbing music and soaked in the stunning views of 1940s Los Angeles, I knew I was going to spend my precious time on the just-relea...
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Looking at a healthy housing bustMay 22, 2011 12:00 am - Just as busts follow booms, booms are supposed to follow busts. But there has been no boom, not even a boomlet, to light a candle in the gloom of the housing collapse. M...
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Mr. Big takes a perp walkMay 19, 2011 12:00 am - It’s almost enough to give socialism a bad name. We don’t know whether Dominique Strauss-Kahn — who headed the International Monetary Fund before resigning Wednesday an...