Articles filed under Opinion
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Nuance changes but not key theme of storm coverageFeb 01, 2011 11:00 pm - These are the times for stories we'll always remember. They are the “where were you when” stories that we tell our children and grandchildren 20 or 30 years from now whe...
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College is what you make of it; just get past stressFeb 01, 2011 11:00 pm - Every year, UCLA's Higher Education Research Center does a national study of college freshmen, some 200,000 in all. This year, the big news is emotional health — or lack...
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Let's stop ignoring the fire next doorFeb 01, 2011 10:00 pm - Many Americans are keeping a watchful eye on the developments halfway around the world in Egypt. However, they must not forget the crisis next door in Mexico. The situa...
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Flames stoked too readily by extremistsJan 31, 2011 11:00 pm - The turmoil in Egypt must not be seen in isolation from other events in the world. Neither is it an aberration. It is the next scene in a long-running play whose final a...
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Democracy is nothing without human rightsJan 31, 2011 11:00 pm - Things are about to go from bad to worse in the Middle East. An Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement is nowhere in sight. Lebanon just became a Hezbollah state, which is ...
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Small gestures of good, bad leave lasting marks on kidsJan 30, 2011 11:00 pm - A smart kid with good grades, Michael Spivak came from a supportive family and had just celebrated a successful bar mitzvah that ushered him into manhood. But he still w...
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'2nd adolescence' of baby boomers placed on holdJan 30, 2011 10:00 pm - A few years ago, baby boomers needed 3-D glasses to take in the gorgeous vision of their decades to come. Books and articles foresaw baby boomers skipping off into a “se...
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It's just too easy to blame it on BarackJan 29, 2011 11:00 pm - You have to hand it to Rep. Michele Bachmann, who was the official tea party responder to the president's State of the Union address. No phony sincerity from her. No mov...
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Missing a tax reform movementJan 29, 2011 11:00 pm - While I was out ill for six weeks in December and January, the world changed. Before that, the White House had badly misjudged the political climate. When I went to Ohio...
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The mystique of the word exceptionalismJan 28, 2011 11:00 pm - He didn't say it. That word: “exceptional.” Barack Obama described an exceptional nation in his State of the Union address, but he studiously avoided using the word cons...