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Tribune Co., in a move that aims to boost its stock price but saddle the company with a punishing debt load, on Tuesday disclosed a plan to buy back a quarter of its outstanding shares at a cost of more than $2 billion. The Chicago media concern, which...

Today is the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, one of the most shameful moments in American political and media history. It’s the 10th anniversary of the day the United States took its eye off the ball, allowing......

Ray Goff and Richard Bell know what Florida coach Will Muschamp is going through this week. The two coached the Gators' first year coach when he was at Georgia, Goff as the head coach for six seasons and Bell as Muschamp's defensive coordinator and...

       I kicked off a bit of a tempest in today's column by zinging the sillier obsessions of both the left and the right. True to form, I got responses from each side claiming they were indeed right and the other side was indeed...

As the holiday season unfolds, our thoughts on The Ticket turn to working not quite so hard for a few days. So we are re-publishing some of our favorite or most-read items from 2009. This item originally appeared on March......

Since 9/11, we now actually import more oil than we did before 9/11. It's insulting to common sense...Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass) on ABC's "This Week" yesterday Following up on this assertion I found... Financier Michael Milken showed this slide during......

Under Bush, mine-safety enforcement eased, Philadelphia Inquirer January 8th, 2006: Since the Bush administration took office in 2001, it has been more lenient than its predecessors toward mining companies facing serious safety violations, issuing fewer...

At the start of the new ``Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,’’ the house-elf Dobby warns our young sorcerer not to go back to Hogwarts School for a second year. The little guy must have been a marketing major. Prospects for Harry’s sophomore outing...

Remember when Professor Dumbledore discovers Harry Potter sitting bemused before the magical Mirror of Erised in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," the first of the wildly popular movies of the series? That scene was filmed here in the former...

When director Christopher Columbus finished ``Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’’ last fall, he was barely able to bask in its incredible success. Columbus went straight from the set to weeks of promotional duties culminating in a world premiere in...

In an era when most stewardesses were forced to resign if they married or had children, Edith Lauterbach and four other female flight attendants organized the first union to fight for equal rights in the sky, in 1945. Lauterbach, a San Francisco...

Editor's note: This corrects the caption of the photo of David C. Henley in front of Tuol Sleng Prison. Editor's note: The following article is a first-person account of a visit to the former Tuol Sleng Prison in Cambodia by David C. Henley, a Newport...