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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Rome flashback #3 -- You don't have to Catholic to dig the Vatican

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      I wasn't exactly a simpleton as a young man, but re-reading these columns from 1999, they do have a certain gee-whiz quality that...
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Flashback 2010: Religions share core yet keep us divided

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       I'm taking a few weeks off. But no worries, I won't leave you high and dry. Since Passover began Monday night, this is ...
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Monday, April 10, 2017

Rome Flashback #2: the little things jump out

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    My older son is hanging out in Rome, I can report on good authority.  I'm reprinting some columns from when I was there in 1999, ...
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Sunday, April 9, 2017

Rome flashback #1 "There never is a next time"

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(From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)       My older son is studying at the Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris this semester...
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Saturday, April 8, 2017

The Great Loop Flood, 25 years on

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     My first thought was: A bomb went off.      An atomic bomb, maybe. Why else would thousands of office workers be evacuating the Loop ...
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Friday, April 7, 2017

Garry McCarthy's real friends would be telling him not to run

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     The reattachment surgery must have been a success.      Former Supt. Garry McCarthy, whose manhood resided in a jar on Rahm Emanuel...
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Thursday, April 6, 2017

They're so cute when they're small

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     The chemical attack by Syria's Bashar al-Assad that killed scored of civilians, including dozens of children, appears to have...
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