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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
It’s a time for silence,not more inane babble
WASHINGTON -- It is a conundrum of wordsmiths that sometimes events are so horrible that words escape us. Bereft of the tools of our trade, we are left with what is perhaps the only appropriate response to something as heart-stopping as the massacre of children: Silence.
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Roots of mass murder
Every mass shooting has three elements: the killer, the weapon and the cultural climate. As soon as the shooting stops, partisans immediately pick their preferred root cause with corresponding pet panacea. Names are hurled, scapegoats paraded, prejudices vented. The argument goes nowhere.
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PublishedDecember 22, 2012
M.D. HARMON: Friday: Day world didn’t end, days started to get a smidgen longer
If you're reading this, I guess the Mayans were wrong.
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PublishedDecember 21, 2012
COMMENTARY: Barbie Paradox: Is Doctor Barbie better than Magician Barbie?
Online shopping has many wonderful aspects. As someone who has placed 203 Amazon orders this year, I should know.
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PublishedDecember 19, 2012
GEORGE SMITH: Russ Libby was a humble man who blazed a wide path of learning
From Mount Vernon to the nation’s capital and beyond, the accolades for Russ Libby, upon his untimely death, would have embarrassed him. Russ was a humble man, never eager for the limelight, although he often deserved it.
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PublishedDecember 19, 2012
GEORGE SMITH: Russ Libby was a humble man who blazed a wide path of learning
From Mount Vernon to the nation's capital and beyond, the accolades for Russ Libby, upon his untimely death, would have embarrassed him. Russ was a humble man, never eager for the limelight, although he often deserved it.
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PublishedDecember 19, 2012
WORST WEEK: Rice went on talk shows because Clinton was tired
If only Hillary Rodham Clinton had not been worn down after a week of flights and high-stakes diplomacy, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice might now be well on her way to being the next secretary of state.
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PublishedDecember 18, 2012
COMMENTARY: We have a script for a tragedy for which we should have no words
There are no words for this. A gunman opened fire Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., killing 20 children and six adults. Twenty children, all 6 and 7 years old.
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PublishedDecember 17, 2012
MAINE COMPASS: Tipping dwells in partisan past, perpetuates a political falsehood
Mike Tipping, the communications director for the liberal activist group Maine People's Alliance, is granted a regular opinion column in the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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PublishedDecember 16, 2012
COMMENTARY: Young people find American Dream overseas
After applying for 279 jobs over two years, my husband finally got the offer he'd been hoping for: a well-paid position teaching philosophy at a respected university. We should have been thrilled. There was just one little thing.
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