Articles filed under Opinion
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At the window, hopeDec 22, 2009 10:00 pm - From the 14th floor of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, I could look across the East River to much of Brooklyn and Queens. Behind me in the hospital bed was the woman I l...
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One is the loneliest numberDec 22, 2009 10:00 pm - In the last year or so of George W. Bush's second term, commentators used to talk a lot about the conspicuous scarcity of other Republicans willing to stand up and defen...
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Merely mortal Obama inventing himselfDec 21, 2009 10:00 pm - Perhaps it is the spirit of the season, but my empathy receptors are in overdrive for poor Barack Obama. All he wanted for Christmas was a health care reform bill -- and...
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Make lenders pay for this crisisDec 21, 2009 10:00 pm - I marvel at the athletic prowess of today's bankers and financiers, especially during a time when many Americans have had to give up their homes and their hopes for a se...
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A job path to legalizationDec 20, 2009 10:00 pm - With the nation's jobless rate at 10 percent and six applicants for every opening, you might think this is the worst possible time for Congress to legalize millions of ...
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An anniversary of sortsDec 20, 2009 10:00 pm - Twenty-five years ago this week, I wrote my first column. I'm not much given to self-reflection - why do you think I quit psychiatry? - but I figure once every quarter-c...
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The indispensable dispenserDec 19, 2009 10:00 pm - "Last year," Ryan Bingham says, "I spent 322 days on the road, which means that I had to spend 43 miserable days at home." Home is an Omaha rental unit less furnished th...
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Joe Lieberman's big pictureDec 19, 2009 10:00 pm - When Joe Lieberman said he would probably support the health care legislation - now that the public option and Medicare buy-in are being stripped out - the Democrat-turn...
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Adding upon fame without the shameDec 17, 2009 10:00 pm - Things being what they are, I'm delighted when any newspaper is hiring. And when someone lands a job in journalism, I'm ready to pop the cork. But I find it hard to swal...
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Dishing out some shock on debtDec 17, 2009 10:00 pm - The 34 names are familiar to anyone who has followed economic policy in Washington for the past generation, one-third of them former chairmen or members of key committee...