To Comfort The Afflicted
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    ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Updated

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    Editor’s Note: Froma Harrop is on vacation. This is an updated version of a column that first appeared Dec. 28, 2003. BY FROMA HARROP The most wrong assumption in the sci-fi movie classic “2001: A Space Odyssey” was that technology would liberate humans from a life of hassle. Made 42 years ago, Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece […]

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    Grinning Bankers

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    BY JIM HIGHTOWER Like ugly on a toad, banker greed just can’t be rinsed off, no matter how much regulatory soap you use. Last week, Congress enacted new rules to govern America’s huge banks, thus completing Washington’s response to the unbridled Wall Street greed that crashed the financial system and crushed our economy. The regulatory […]

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    The Obama Paradox

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    BY SUSAN ESTRICH You don’t need to be a political pollster, much less a worried Democrat, to know that the president’s approval ratings have plummeted. “Down to the immediate family,” we used to say mockingly, when President Bush was at about the same point. Of course, it’s a little bit better than that – down […]

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    Wild Kingdom In The City Backyard

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    BY FROMA HARROP It’s a savage wilderness, here in my city yard. From a distance, it looks like a Victorian postcard – a pastoral scene of sweet flowers, sun-kissed vegetables and trilling birds. The reality is considerably rougher. Hang around, and one sees a Darwinian jungle of predators and prey. The Animal Planet’s “Untamed & […]

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    The Fall Of Obama

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    BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The man who seized the White House by fomenting a mood of irrational expectation is now facing the bitter price exacted by reality. The reality is that there can be no “good” American president. It’s an impossible hand to play. Obama is close to being finished. The nation’s first black president promised […]

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