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Watching TV is no longer a pastime

Opinion: A recent Time magazine takes a look at Americans by the numbers. I love these kinds of surveys


Hot ray gun cools troublemakers

Opinion: Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, put away your silly-looking toys. You, too, Captain Kirk. The real ray


Huge college enrollments aren’t good

Opinion: Stanford, Yale, and Princeton are all in the process of considering whether to increase the number


There’s a long road leading from Annapolis to peace

There’s a long road leading from Annapolis to peace The image of President Bush holding the hand


“I don’t know what the future holds for us. A lot of options, hopefully, will be

Opinion: “I don’t know what the future holds for us. A lot of options, hopefully, will be available.”


Possible sale of Girard Lake saddens environmentalist

Opinion: Possible sale of Girard Lake saddens environmentalist EDITOR: As an environmentalist, my


New fed agency plagued by ineptitude

Opinion: WASHINGTON — The old Immigration and Naturalization Service in the Justice Department was a textbook


Remember the old adage: Brother, help thyself

Opinion: Remember the old adage: Brother, help thyself EDITOR: The Democratic candidates both local and


Europeans clean up as the dollar falters

Opinion: WASHINGTON — The darling young French couple was new to the States and needed furnishings for their


Gore challenged on global warming claims

Opinion: Last month, professor Richard Lindzen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spoke to the 350


Reading on the run

Opinion: Chicago Tribune: One hardcover English translation of Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” has a list price


Onus on secretary of state to reassure voters in Ohio

An advocacy group that wants Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to get rid of the electronic


“Musharraf has taken this country to the brink of destruction.”

Opinion: “Musharraf has taken this country to the brink of destruction.” Nawaz Sharif Former Pakistani


Time has been kind to legacy of Bush’s dad

Opinion: In rare philosophic moments, President Bush has suggested that one reason he does not worry about


Brazil’s oil could cause slippage

Opinion: No wonder that Brazil’s president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, proclaimed “God is Brazilian” after