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Mailbag: Aesthetics important to society
Aesthetics important to society Cell phone towers may indeed help meet demand of its users but clearly they run afoul of demand for open space and enjoyment of places of natural beauty ("Cell towers get poor reception," July 25). Even a relatively...Tags: Philosophy, Crimes, Cell Phones, Christopher Hitchens, Crime, Law and Justice
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Mike Thomas: Far-right lunatic!
The Mike Thomas Blog» Orlando Sentinel â The Mike Thomas BlogThought I'd share this with the class. Got this e-mail, which was copied to everyone in the state of Florida. I couldn't resist a response. Which provoked a response.   Subject: First they came for the children.  The children will in some ca... -
'Beyond the realm of possibility'
Of The Morning CallDressed in jeans and a green Army T-shirt, David Emme, a wounded veteran of the Iraq war, sat in a Muhlenberg College classroom Wednesday night discussing economic theory with classmates. Three years ago, talking, reading, even thinking were difficult...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Allentown, Back to School, Veterans Affairs, International Military Interventions
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Barack Obama: Portrait of a pragmatist
Tribune staff reportersBarack Obama packed his few belongings into his newly purchased but creaky old Honda and headed west from New York into a political and social battle zone. When the raw, 23-year-old community organizer hit Chicago in early 1985, the racially charged...Tags: African Americans, Demonstration, Career and Workplace, Weather, Kenya
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Some crazy ideas have a way of changing how we think
Tribune Media Services columnistHere are three ideas that people considered crazy: 1. Free markets can be an effective economic tool, and government intervention can be overdone. That was a really tough sell in the days of a Keynesian economic model that relied heavily on government....Tags: University of Chicago, Nobel Prize Awards, Yahoo! Inc., Periodicals, Air Transportation
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Play it cool
Congratulations: You scored a first date with your latest crush. The outfit and post-date seduction scene are all planned out. Now, where to go? Think of dating like real estate--location, location, location. We've got the top picks to increase your...Tags: University of Chicago, Dining and Drinking, Gold Coast, Colleges and Universities, Personal Service
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Obamanomics=free mkt wealth spreading
The Swampby Frank James Sen. John McCain has gone after Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic nominee's use of the words "spread the wealth" when the senator from Illinois explained his tax plan to Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher. I just happened......Tags: Hillary Clinton, Government, Bill Clinton, Personal Income, Federal Income Tax
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Callaway on Callaway
Can a country-boy-turned-big-city-journalist reinvent himself one more time?" The question was posed in 1999 by - and about - John Callaway in his farewell broadcast after 15 years on "Chicago Tonight," a news discussion show he had made into acclaimed...Tags: Robert R. McCormick, Hospitals and Clinics, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Television, Newspaper and Magazine
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'The Corporation'
Times Staff WriterIn case you hadn't noticed, corporations have a pervasive presence in modern life. "The Corporation," a cool yet scathing documentary, has definitely noticed, seeing its subject as today's dominant institution, on a par with the church or the monarchy...Tags: Local Government, Ray Anderson, Movies, U.S. Supreme Court, Entertainment
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