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Road to recovery? It all depends
As a youth, I marched under the red flag of socialism, a banner that's drooped badly in more recent decades. Stalin made a bloody mockery of Marx's vision of a classless society. Ditto Castro in Cuba. China is an old lefty's worst nightmare: a Communist...Tags: International Workers' Day, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Employment, Career and Workplace
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Presidential alumni an elite (and small) club
At the dedication Thursday of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, President Barack Obama appeared with all four living ex-presidents — George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. That raised a question: What is the record...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Pierce
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Weekend Escape: California's Pleasanton lives up to its name
Pleasanton, Calif., is — no surprise here — a pleasant small city east of San Francisco Bay that was off the beaten track for much of the 20th century and avoided the redevelopment that destroyed the cores of many older cities. Its downtown...
Tags: John Madden, Arts, Lifestyle and Leisure, Arts and Culture, Dining and Drinking
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Part 1: History, grown locally
Legendary Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill famously coined the phrase "All politics is local," but for dedicated staff and volunteers at historical societies across the city and suburbs, so is all history. They are the ones who keep the flame of the...
Tags: Western Springs, Edgewater, Water Supply, Arts and Culture, Bars and Clubs
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COLUMN: The sound of inevitability
Tribune Media ServicesGiven his track record on marital fidelity, former President Bill Clinton is not the person I would consult about "committed, loving relationships." Clinton used those words in a Washington Post op-ed last week, urging the Supreme Court to overturn the...Tags: Family, Marriage, Anthony Kennedy, Crime, Law and Justice, Same-Sex Marriage
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Obama should free Pollard
President Barack Obama's forthcoming trip to Israel affords him a special opportunity to mend political fences and guarantee a warm popular reception in that country, while at the same time ensuring that justice is served here at home. These are goals...
Tags: Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Iraq, Justice System, Laws
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This week's best-sellers
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Alex Cross, Run" by James Patterson (Little, Brown, $28.99). In this latest addition in the Alex Cross series, the detective returns to track down a slew of serial killers in Washington, D.C. Last week: — 2. "A Week in...
Tags: Washington, DC, Book, Sonia Sotomayor, John F. Kennedy, Murder
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Gatsby, Galbraith and the myth of Coolidge's crash
What's next after the Oscars? More Gatsby, of course. "The Great Gatsby," featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and coming in May, will be the fourth, or by some counts the fifth or sixth, movie version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel about the illusion created by...Tags: Stock Market, Leonardo DiCaprio, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Federal Reserve, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Night of nonsense
WASHINGTON -- In the 12 months we have to steel ourselves for the next State of the Union spectacle, let us count the ways that this spawn of democratic Caesarism -- presidency-worship -- has become grotesque. It would be the most embarrassing ceremony in...
Tags: Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, Career and Workplace, Barack Obama, Weather Reports
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The brevity of Silent Cal
WASHINGTON -- Before Ronald Reagan traveled the 16 blocks to the White House after his first inaugural address, the White House curator had, at the new president's instruction, hung in the Cabinet room a portrait of Calvin Coolidge. The Great Communicator...
Tags: Government, Ronald Reagan, Washington, DC, Boston, White House
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Wrigley Building: Star of the skyline
Chicago Tribune reporterHoliday shoppers on Michigan Avenue this month can get a unique gift: Viewing parts of the Wrigley Building that haven't been visible to the public since the "fraternal twin" towers were completed in 1921 and 1924. The ongoing renovations, which have...Tags: Chicago Loop, Chicago Restaurants, World War II (1939-1945), Wrigley Building, Michigan Avenue
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State Of The Union — A Night Of Nonsense
The Hartford CourantIn the 12 months we have to steel ourselves for the next State of the Union spectacle, let us count the ways that this spawn of democratic Caesarism — presidency-worship — has become grotesque. It would be the most embarrassing ceremony in the...Tags: John Boehner, State of the Union Address, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, Career and Workplace
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