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What Mothers Know

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH You don’t need a briefing book on being a mother to answer this one: What do you do when your daughter comes home complaining that she wants to drop off the swim team or quit the play or, with the little ones, never go to school again because the other kids are […]

Cities Are Back – But For How Long?

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BY FROMA HARROP Why are cities growing faster than the rest of the country? That’s happening and reverses a decade-long trend, according to new U.S. Census figures. Gainers in 2008 included such diverse locations as Chicago, Los Angeles, Columbus, Ohio, and Lincoln, NE. The Census found that cities losing people, such as Cleveland, were shrinking […]

Nominee And High Court Both Right

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BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD Both Judge Sotomayor of the appellate court and the majority of the U.S. Supreme Court may be right, or at least...

The Thoughtful Justice

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BY DANNY M. ADKISON The Supreme Court wasn’t getting along at the end of Chief Justice Rehnquist’s career. They don’t seem to be getting along...

Saccharin Sanford

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BY KAREN WEBB I went on vacation and another “family values” Repub, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, goes off the deep end. Mrs. Sanford says what he did...