Opinion
Opinion
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EDITORIALS
Our View and Your View: Ed board applicants excellent
Our invitation for guest editorial board members to discuss, debate and write with us for a four- to six-month stretch drew a wonderful response.
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OPINION COLUMNS
Steve Haycox: Rockwell's America was an exclusive club
Columnist Steve Haycox reminds us that millions were deliberately excluded from excluded from Norman Rockwell's America.
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NATIONAL COLUMNISTS
Watching your weight? Who's watching the diet supplements?
Dietary supplements are big business: a $20 billion-plus industry in the United States. Tens of thousands of products line the shelves of grocery, drug and health food stores - with about 1,000 new choices introduced each year.
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RELIGION
Christine M. Flowers: Have faith sometimes institutions do what's right
Being both Catholic and a lawyer imposes a difficult burden. While I'm usually able to reconcile my professional life with my spiritual obligations, there are those gray areas where the mandate of the law pulls me in an opposite and irreconcilable direction from the obligations of my faith. It's...
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NATIONAL COLUMNISTS
Mary Sanchez: A supreme success reflects on where she came from
Did Sonia Sotomayor chose the wrong profession? The U.S. Supreme Court justice is rocking her book tour, packing venues and leaving social media atwitter with accounts of her warmth and vitality. She traded pithy barbs with Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, salsa danced with Univision's Jorge Ramos...
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NATIONAL COLUMNISTS
Gina Barreca: Peekaboo � let the good times in
We all enter this world crying. Laughter is something we have to learn.
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NATIONAL COLUMNISTS
Forecast calls for pain
Not long after President Barack Obama promised to fight climate change in his inaugural address, temperatures soared to 70 last week in Baltimore - in late January. Our weather continues to be unrecognizable. Last summer was the hottest ever recorded at Baltimore/Washington International Airport...
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NATIONAL COLUMNISTS
Misunderstanding the university: The Brooklyn College case
In recent days, Brooklyn College has found itself targeted by a vehement campaign against its political science department's decision to co-sponsor a forum in which two speakers are expected to advocate a position that the campaigners heartily object to. City and state politicians have even called...
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NATIONAL COLUMNISTS
Gun divide is a hard target
The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday, Feb. 7:
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NATIONAL COLUMNISTS
DNA's crime-fighting role
The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, Feb. 7:






