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She Would Have Turned 60 Today
I wrote this in 2010, but have not published it until today, February 28, 2020. I wrote the headline today, but I have not otherwise updated time references. Twenty-seven years ago, on October 16, 1983, a deeply troubled young woman let go of her last hold on life, and tumbled off the Golden Gate Bridge.…
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Dictionaries: A Modern-Day Morality Play
“If you don’t look up the words you don’t know, you don’t deserve the beauty of literature,” my teacher said. Four decades later I still feel the lash in her voice.
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Seeking More Muslim Heroes
Unlike the thugs who killed him, Merabet had assimilated into French society, while retaining his Muslim identity.
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George Will Bails Out on Another War
The strategy that so clearly has worked in Iraq deserves an opportunity to succeed in Afghanistan as well.
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Let’s Go Mets
The whole post-every-day thing is already running out of steam. So far the blog seems to be mostly about Obama. Today it’s about the Mets — game starts at 1:10, I need to head for the train in less than an hour, I’m meeting my son Harry at the ballpark. Johan Santana (8-7) vs. Kyle…
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A Signpost in Mr. Obama’s War
From the San Diego Union Tribune. Hat tip: Navy for Moms.
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Cliff Notes on the Final Debate: Not a Game-Changer
The election is not going to hinge on foreign policy, and both men knew it. The way they both kept pivoting to domestic policy was nothing short of comical.
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Cliff Notes on Second Presidential Debate: Obama Stopped the Bleeding
Between Sleepwalking Obama and Smirky Biden, the Democrats were in free fall after the first two debates. Tonight certainly slowed that momentum, but I don’t think it reversed it.
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Brush With Greatness: Episcopalian Edition
I teamed up with the Web Goddess on Sunday to produce a web report published today on a visit to a Jersey City parish by the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. The occasion was a centennial celebration by Church of the Incarnation, launched in an era when black Jersey City residents had to travel…