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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Flight 370 and Samuel Johnson: The Untold Connection

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     Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 ... is ... umm ... still missing.       That said, I ... ah ... wanted to add that its disappearance is ...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

The search for CNN's missing reputation

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   On March 8, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 carrying 239 passengers and crew en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disapp...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Passover is a backward kind of holiday

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     I might be the only newspaper columnist in America who writes regularly about being Jewish. I do it because it's part of my life,...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Sixty years ago, parents prayed for vaccines...

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Iron lung, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago     This started as a column about the 60th anniversary of the Salk va...
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Saturday, April 12, 2014

My grandma

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     My mother and I talk on the telephone several times a week. A few days back, she mentioned that Friday, April 11, is the 30th anni...
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Friday, April 11, 2014

You? You can pay tax. But LaSalle Street? Against the law...

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     Two utterly true, impossible-to-argue generalizations about people: a) they like to insist they are right about everything; b) they ...
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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Talking music with the kids

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     The newspaper has a Starbucks machine on the 10th floor, plus a big red soda machine, and cereal, candy and ice cream bars, not to m...
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