Articles filed under Opinion
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Colleges get poor grades in teaching civics and historySep 24, 2007 11:00 pm - For the second year in a row, America's elite universities and colleges have failed to rise above a "D plus" on tests of basic knowledge about civics and American histor...
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Columns missed big picture on prosecutor's officeSep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - Bianchi is the McHenry County state's attorney. Recently, two articles by the same columnist have been critical of the use of the state's attorney's petty cash acco...
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No one involved in the 'Jena 6' case comes off very wellSep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - When I first heard of the "Jena 6" -- African-American teens in a small Louisiana town charged with beating a white classmate -- my instinct was to side with those screa...
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Columns missed big picture on prosecutor's officeSep 21, 2007 11:00 pm - Bianchi is the McHenry County state's attorney. Recently, two articles by the same columnist have been critical of the use of the state's attorney's petty cash account a...
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Recent U.S. success in Anbar province raises two questionsSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - The Bush administration has been so enthusiastic in touting its new alliance with Sunni tribal leaders in Anbar province that it's easy to overlook two questions: Why di...
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Hispanic Heritage Month brings new understandingSep 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Hispanic Heritage Month only started a few days ago and already it has produced an epiphany. It came from an unexpected source: a concert by Mexican superstar Luis Migue...
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Hillary could stand to show more spine and less expediencySep 17, 2007 11:00 pm - If there is a phrase more closely associated with both Hillary and Bill Clinton than "the politics of personal destruction," it does not come to mind. All the others -- ...
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Even dedicated transit user could take only so muchSep 17, 2007 11:00 pm - Broderick is the Daily Herald's presentation editor for news. I tried. It was easier in nice weather. Then it was a refreshing walk in the morning and a quick train ride...
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Petraeus report shows U.S. has little time left to stitch Iraq togetherSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - "Tell me how this ends." That is the question Gen. David Petraeus posed to journalist Rick Atkinson in March 2003 as U.S. troops were moving to topple Saddam Hussein. An...
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Israel can stand to be criticized, but it's not always wrongSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - A strange thing happened to me while reading "The Israel Lobby" by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. I went from nodding my head at the obviousness of it all -- o...