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Black Friday threatens to swallow Thanksgiving whole
The War on Christmas is fiction, but the War on Thanksgiving is real. Crazy consumerism is attacking the spirit of the holiday, with stores opening — and shoppers stampeding — earlier and earlier on Thursday, before ovens cool and the...Tags: Thanksgiving, Holidays, Tamarac, Amusement and Theme Parks, Black Friday (shopping)
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Dressmaker to the first lady
"Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker" by Jennifer Chiaverini, Dutton, 352 pages, $26.95. In 1860 in Washington, D.C. freed slave Elizabeth Keckley is called for an interview with first lady Mary Todd Lincoln. She gets the job as her dressmaker. She stays with...Tags: Washington, DC, Republic of Ireland, Germany, John F. Kennedy
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Breaking the silence
My father told me little about his agonies in the Holocaust. He never mentioned the beatings he suffered in various concentration camps starting in 1942, nor the death march he survived in January 1945, en route to Buchenwald. For nearly the...
Tags: Culture, Literature, Arts and Culture, Oprah Winfrey, Howard Reich
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After a savage day, an orchestra brings solace
Just after Christmas comes the Feast of the Holy Innocents. It commemorates the first Christian martyrs, the children who died in Bethlehem when jealous Herod ordered their slaughter to keep one of them — nobody knew which one — from...
Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Emmaus, Music, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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Can criminal get freedom by leaving their country?
In May of 2009 suspected Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk, 89, was deported from the United States to Germany where he was charged with the murder of 29,000 Jews. He had lived in the United States for decades and had even become a U.S. citizen....Tags: Prosecution, Janet Napolitano, Cuba, Judaism, Prisons
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A day in the life of a zombie writer
I climb out of the car, step into damp October leaves and stare up at the Logan Square apartment building across the street. A chill rushes up the street. I notice a man standing in the front yard, shuffling back and forth. He does not appear rabid. He...
Tags: Mo Yan, Literature, Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities), Arts and Culture, University of Chicago
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Lack of direction has nation at risk
Will an Edward Gibbon of the future write a book called The Decline and Fall of the American Empire? There's a good chance one will, since empires have been rising and falling since the dawn of civilization. The real Gibbon dealt with the fall of the...Tags: Circuses, Government, Finance, Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Government
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A tricky maze of dividing right from wrong
When death comes for me — and, as Markus Zusak's novel, "The Book Thief," makes very clear, death surely is coming for us all — I wouldn't mind if he were played by Francis Guinan. Guinan, an ensemble member at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company...
Tags: Arts and Culture, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Germany, Steppenwolf Theatre, Criminals
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Add Malala Yousufzai to list of those who fought for truth
"Truth crushed to earth will rise again." — Martin Luther King Jr. (quoting William Cullen Bryant) Sometimes, oceans are not enough. Usually, the fact that we are barricaded on both sides by great bodies of water gives us in this country a...
Tags: Emergency Health Procedures, Taliban, Martin Luther King Jr., Islam, Crime, Law and Justice
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Preparing Strike On Iran May Avoid War
The Hartford CourantEither Israel is engaged in the most elaborate ruse since the Trojan Horse or it is on the cusp of a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. What's alarming is not just Iran's increasing store of uranium or the growing sophistication of its...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Israel, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Department of State, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Liner tragedy worse than Titanic
This month the world marked the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic. As tragic as the loss of the most famous cruise in history was, however, there was another cruise liner whose story was even more horrific. The Cap Arcona, named for a cape in...Tags: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, United Kingdom, Media Industry, Movies
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Remembering big loss of 'humanity'
The centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic was in April (the topic of two recent columns). But we also just marked another important date in the history of transportation. It was 75 years ago this month that the airship Hindenberg burst into...Tags: American Civil War (1861-1865), Pompano Beach, Air Transportation Industry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, World War I (1914-1918)
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Oct 26, 2012
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Apr 22, 2012
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