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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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Karen Armstrong Preaches Compassion in Morristown
I tried to bait the famous author into a partisan screed, but she was having none of it. “America is at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now our Nobel Peace Prize winning president is taking us into war in Libya. I’d be interested to hear your take on how some of the things you’ve…
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Newtown and Chengping: Stark Contrast in the Gun Control Debate
Six school attacks in China left fewer dead than in Newtown. The weapons in the Chinese incidents: knife, knife, meat cleaver, knife, axe, box cutter.
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Ahmadinejad Seems to Have a Death Wish
It has become hard to imagine a peaceful ending to the Iranian nuclear problem. I’ve gone back and forth on this, but it seems highly likely that Israel, which twice before has launched pre-emptive attacks on nuclear facilities in hostile countries, will do so again.
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The Wages of Socialism Are Greece
Look to Greece, the cradle of democracy, to see what happens when the people no longer are able to vote themselves bread and circuses. From the Voice of America: Workers in Greece are in the second day of a 48-hour general strike, and the country is all but shut down by the protest action against…
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Wyden-Ryan Offers a Glimpse of a Bipartisan Approach to Healthcare
Ron Wyden is the longest-serving U.S. senator I had never heard of until this month. The Oregon Democrat may be on the brink of becoming better-known, as co-author of a promising proposal for Medicare reform.
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Ted Kennedy Liked Chappaquiddick Jokes
Surely true remorse — or even just common decency — would preclude making jokes about an incident where he put his political career ahead of a young woman’s life. If justice had been served, his path to redemption would have included a stay in prison. When he joked about it, he mocked justice.