To Comfort The Afflicted
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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

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    The Resolutions Racket

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    BY SUSAN ESTRICH The other day, I walked into a bookstore looking for some escapism and stumbled right into a wall of diet books. It’s January. I published a diet book right around this time back in the ’90s, which is why I’ve been able to mostly avoid the diet book section ever since. But […]

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    Heading Back Into Clinton Time

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    BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN What lies ahead politically? Look for an answer back in the ’90s. Even if the Republicans don’t take over after the midterm elections, the Democratic Party now in Congress is dominated by politicians fashioned in the Clinton era, nourished by such heirs of Aristotle as Rahm Emanuel and, before him, Tony Coelho. […]

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    Google’s [Sort Of] Heroism

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    BY FROMA HARROP So Google wants to play human-rights superhero. Five years ago, it compromised its standing as the global avatar of cyber-freedom by blocking certain searches on its Chinese website at the behest of the government in Beijing. Now it’s threatening to leave China after discovering a massive campaign to hack the Gmail accounts […]

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    For Reid, Motive Does Matter

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    BY JOE CONASON If Harry Reid’s private remarks about the skin tone and speaking style of Barack Obama were offensive, the Republican crusade to oust him from his leadership position is worse. For Republicans to claim that he deserves the punishment inflicted on Trent Lott – the former Republican majority leader forced to resign because […]

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    Selling The City’s Soul — For Chicken Scratch

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    BY JIM HIGHTOWER Fire hydrants deserve more respect. They are utilitarian and ubiquitous icons of America’s urban landscape, yet they’re rarely noticed by anyone but dogs – who give them no respect whatsoever. Now, though, a brand-name corporation has noticed that these pieces of our public infrastructure are everywhere, and, like a dog, it wants […]

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