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July 20th, 2003
Lament of a Student Loan Debtor
I'll admit it-I'm a student loan debtor . Big time.
And like most of you I'm not expecting forgiveness anytime soon.
My loan woe
A few years ago I set out to improve myself ...
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June 18th, 2003
My other name is Mr. Flag. It's true?I'm a closet vexillologist . I study flags. I guess you'd say that qualifies me as a geek. Or maybe I'm just a pathological ...
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May 2nd, 2003
Christie Todd Whitman Finds Bush EPA No Place for Moderates
Wind Dummy?
The writing was on the wall for all environmentalists the day Secretary of State Colin Powell called EPA director Christine Todd Whitman President Bush's "wind dummy ." The term refers to the military practice ...
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April 19th, 2003
The April 8 Attacks Demand a Reckoning
No doubt a sad page has been turned as a result of U.S. troop actions that led to the death of three journalists last Wednesday . It's hard not to think that an unspoken and ...
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April 10th, 2003
Philip Morris Companies Became Altria Group - So What?
When a corporation like the Philip Morris Companies changes its name, is it a change in deed or just in word?
As the umbrella company that owns such diverse products as Kool-Aid, Altoids, Oscar Meyer, and ...
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April 8th, 2003
The Ethical Quandary of Embedded Journalists
Do "embedded journalists," that is, those assigned to cover and travel with a particular military unit, make for balanced war coverage?
As a journalist I believe embedding journalists with our troops is higly problematic.
Say the word
To ...
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March 28th, 2003
Is DU a Danger to Our Figthing Men and Women?
No matter how patriotically we adhere to the slogan "Support Our Troops," it is to the US military that the slogan should apply the most.
But, in some cases, the military may be a soldier's biggest ...
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February 28th, 2003
A House Painter and the Importance of Passionate Living
Could it be that "lust" is one of the good seven deadly sins? Possibly the only one that is?
I love the word lust because the word ...
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February 27th, 2003
Don't Look Now, Unemployment Is Good for You
Just when you think you've heard it all comes this nugget: Joblessness may be good for you.
This curious theory comes courtesy of University of North Carolina economist Christopher Ruhm. Ruhm's theory, published by the National ...
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January 4th, 2003
Signs of Hope in Mother Teresa's Long Crisis of Faith
Can there be any example more illuminating about what faith demands than Mother Teresa's recently revealed crisis of faith?
Crisis of faith…and Mother Teresa? Yes, the two go together. She was human ...
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December 14th, 2002
The Economic Winners in a Conflict with Iraq
Who will be the benefactors of any war on Iraq ?
The winners are all about past relationships. And where President George W. Bush's administration is concerned, those past relationships are measured in barrels of crude ...
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November 1st, 2002
Electric Cars and Public Health, Yesterday and Today
Can a government honestly say it's an advocate for the public's health while siding with the auto industry against electric cars quotas?
It's doubtful given the ill effects of smog and pollution from gas guzzling automobiles. ...
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October 1st, 2002
Ten Spots They'll Never Find Our Secure and Undisclosed Vice President
Any cop will tell you it's the guilty who run at the scene of a crime.
Believe that and you'll find Vice President Dick Cheney's disappearances during recent terrorist alerts puzzling. During ...
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May 28th, 2002
How much money should the Catholic Church pay, or not pay, to settle current sex abuse claims?
How about $0?
Now, before you get into your car and head over to my place to tar and feather me, please rest assured that I, like you, believe that the Catholic Church owes a very ...
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April 6th, 2002
Justly Revisited
It was until my freshman year in college that I read the book "Farewell to Manzanar" - the true account of a Japanese-American family's struggle as prisoners in a U.S. internment camp during WW II. ...
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March 28th, 2002
My List to Keep the Prez Busy After Saddam
One of my favorite buttons, which I attached to my backpack during my freshman year in college, was one that sported a photo of Frank Sinatra and read, "It's Frank's world; we just live in ...
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March 28th, 2002
How Baseball Keeps Teaching Me About Forgiveness
What does a sport of rich owners and multi-million dollar players teach us about forgiveness, that concept so near and dear to all Christians?
With baseball - plenty.
The three R's
And the answer to why is as ...
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March 28th, 2002
A Generation of More "Realistic" Computer Games
Virtual AmericaConstruct your own "virtual neighborhood" where hundreds of clones of Sam Walton, Michael Eisner, and Rupert Murdoch compete inside a gated community. Play as one of the three ...
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March 28th, 2002
Young People and the Catholic Peace Movement Today
As images of war fill a greater share of the nation's TV news, many Catholics are tuning in to organizations like Pax Christi USA to uphold the doctrine of nonviolence. A peace movement ...
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March 6th, 2002
And the Hard Questions
Who can blame those who lost friends and loved ones on 9/11 for thinking God let them down? And who can blame them for thinking that a benevolent and loving deity, if it exists, is ...
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