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Being rich isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

Opinion: WASHINGTON — Enough, already, with compassion for society’s middle and lower orders. There currently


Company sued over scalping of Hannah Montana tickets

Opinion: PITTSBURGH (AP) — A software company has been accused of enabling scalpers to buy up tickets for the


All that talk about Sick Old Europe is a myth

Opinion: In the global economy, today’s winners can become tomorrow’s losers in a twinkling, and vice versa.


Ask questions now, avoid buyer’s remorse later

Ask questions now, avoid buyer’s remorse later Before Youngstown spends $50,000 on Tasers, city


Chertoff’s criticism of Mexicans is foolish

Opinion: HERMOSILLO, Mexico — The people in this northern Mexico city are still shaking their heads in


Blackwater gives U.S. black eye in Iraq

Opinion: When the Iraqi government last month demanded the expulsion of Blackwater USA, the private security


Can you call it chocolate sans chocolate?

Opinion: Shouldn’t chocolate contain, you know … chocolate? By which I mean cocoa butter and solids, derived


“No person that I’ve ever known at 20 years old was responsible enough to be a police

Opinion: “No person that I’ve ever known at 20 years old was responsible enough to be a police officer. It’s


Mexico displaying galling arrogance

Opinion: An anti-defamation league for Mexican migrants to the United States? That’s what the Mexican


U.S. needs to join modern world on health care issue

Opinion: U.S. needs to join modern world on health care issue EDITOR: I read with great interest the


“The first statement we said to each other was, how did he get through the system? How do they

Opinion: “The first statement we said to each other was, how did he get through the system? How do they know


Iran’s hardliners aren’t pleased to see Khatami

Opinion: TEHRAN, Iran — Hard-line supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are expressing shock and


Federal funding won’t solve city of Girard’s dam problem

In March 2006, in the midst of the debate over the Lower Girard Lake Dam’s future, Mayor James Melfi


High school system fails most students

Opinion: Number of students who dropped out of high school last year: 1.1 million. Difference between the


An angry man: Clarence Thomas is no victim

Opinion: WASHINGTON — To read Clarence Thomas’s book is to be struck anew by the blast-furnace of his anger —