On Saturday, Pope Francis announced the newest member of the special commission he has put together to confront the Catholic Church’s chronic sexual abuse problems. Marie Collins, who was molested…
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“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.” — Robert Frost In the midst of my business day a few years ago, I got off…
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My husband and I never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce. — Dr. Joyce Brothers Some years ago, I would routinely take walks with a fellow resident outside the apartment…
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The Group of Eight (G8) forum, a coalition of the eight leading industrialized countries, is now the Group of Eight-minus-One. Russia, the last nation to join the former G7 in…
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If you’re under 50, or if you’re over 50 and have little sense of history, you might be under the impression that the Democratic Party is the long-term champion of…
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” — Anne Frank If the first thing that enters your mind when you hear…
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You’ve worked 30-to-35 years for the same employer — or for maybe several employers. You’re tired of the politics. You’re disgusted with trying to be an innovator, only to have…
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Although he has not made a formal announcement, US Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent-VT) told left-wing publication The Nation that he is “prepared to run for President of the United States”…
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“…he suggested another world …a place where a man could move free, could make his own code and live by it …” — from the 1965 essay by Joan Didion, John Wayne,…
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Here are two possible portraits of memoirists. He’s around 65, or older. He sports a beard, smokes a pipe, and has a PhD in English Literature. He’s very opinionated, and…