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Harold Meyerson: The road to America's recovery starts in L.A.
Washington Post
A life spent stranded in Los Angeles traffic can nonetheless yield its epiphanies. One such moment came in November 2008, when L.A. County's beleaguered commuters voted to increase their sales tax by half a cent over the next...
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Doomsday in Iraq -- is it really just around the corner?
LA Times
We've now been at war intermittently with Iraq for almost 20 years, and with Afghanistan for 30. It adds up to nearly half a century of experience, all bad. Yet an expanding crew of Washington-based opiners is calling...
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Man Wearing Mask Might Save an Unloved Sport: Scott Soshnick
Bloomberg
March 10 (Bloomberg) -- Here’s a question you’ve probably heard before: What, if anything, can make Americans care about hockey more than once every four years? Well, now we have an answer. It’s Ryan Miller , an East...
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The Truth About Unemployment
FOX News
According to Friday's announcement by the Labor Department, the nation?s unemployment rate remains unchanged from the previous month at 9.7 percent. The number was generally greeted as good news by the media. The Wall Street Journal's headline reported...
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Can Nancy Pelosi Get the Votes?
Wall Street Journal
Are there enough votes in the House to pass the Senate's health-care bill? As of today, it's clear there aren't. House Democratic leaders have brushed aside White House calls to bring the bill forward by March 18, when...
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Progress
Chicago Tribune
There's been a march of good news lately from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yes, good news from a region where many Americans don't necessarily expect it.Here's what we've seen recently:•Last weekend, Iraq staged its latest parliamentary elections. Once...
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Ruth Marcus: A rivalry bonded in love
Washington Post
This time, I dispensed with the wheatgrass. Two years ago, I wrote about my daughter's bat mitzvah, the ceremony marking a Jewish child's transition to adulthood. I have a self-imposed rule that personal columns must contain a broader...
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Medicine in the dark
LA Times
Some doctors treat patients with early-stage prostate cancer with radiation. Others favor surgery, while some advocate only close monitoring. Which approach is most successful? No one knows.When it comes to diabetes management, doctors don't have answers to key...
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The 'al Qaeda Seven'
4 RelatedWall Street Journal
When partisans of the left and right trade charges of "McCarthyism" and "assisting the enemy," it's a good bet that both sides are wrong—which means that each side also has a point. That's the way it looks to...
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How Goldman Sachs Could Best the Stimulus and Save Its Soul
FOX News
Goldman Sachs is just possibly the most reviled company in the United States today. It is also one of the most successful, which has caused management to be especially tone-deaf to its public relations crisis. Last week?s New...