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Throwing gas on the oil fire
Contrary to nearly all perceived wisdom in Washington, not to mention the rhetoric of the presumptive nominees of both major parties, the scariest moments in American politics are often its most bipartisan. Some would say this was demonstrated in the wake...Tags: The Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated, Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich, National Government, Government
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Congress throws gas on the oil fire
Contrary to nearly all received wisdom in Washington, not to mention the rhetoric of the presumptive nominees of both major parties, the scariest moments in American politics are often its most bipartisan. Some would say this was demonstrated in the...Tags: Energy Resources, The Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated, Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich, National Government
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Throwing gas on the oil fire
Contrary to nearly all received wisdom in Washington, not to mention the rhetoric of the presumptive nominees of both major parties, the scariest moments in American politics are often its most bipartisan. Some would say that this was demonstrated in...Tags: Energy Resources, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Barack Obama, The Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated, Newt Gingrich
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'Furious Improvisation' by Susan Quinn
Furious Improvisation
How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands
Made High Art Out of Desperate Times
Susan Quinn
Walker & Co.: 326 pp., $25.99
Of all the Depression-era jobs programs created by the Works Progress Administration, the Federal Theatre Project...Tags: Crimes, Floods, Minority Groups, New York, National Government
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There will be blood
By Donna Seaman It is no exaggeration to say that since "Love Medicine" appeared in 1984, Louise Erdrich has been writing one long novel in installments. In her tumultuous saga of North Dakota, Erdrich portrays families burdened with secrets and...Tags: Crimes, Billy Sunday, William Faulkner, John F. Kennedy, Epidemics and Plagues
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Hypocritical headliners
Tribune criticHow we love it. How we adore these delicious tales of the mighty and prideful, knocked from their high perch by a branch they wield themselves. How we relish the notion that a spectacular rise may contain the seeds of a tumbling fall. When a spotless...Tags: Eliot Spitzer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Movies, Ian McKellen, Tom Wolfe
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It's a campaign, not a crusade
GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has done it again -- he said "Merry Christmas." On television. In a campaign ad that first aired in Iowa on Dec. 18, he conspicuously declined to say "Happy Holidays," the sappy all-purpose greeting favored by the...Tags: Ron Paul, Wisconsin, Culture, Same-Sex Marriage, National Government
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Letters to the editor
A matter of choice Re "Abortion's battle of messages," Opinion, Jan. 22 Certainly a woman has a right to decide if she wants to carry her pregnancy to term. But at some point in her pregnancy, she should lose that right. Almost everyone agrees that if...Tags: Maryland, Treaties, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Private Health Care, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California)
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Sister Carrie
Tribune staff reporterFrank Doubleday publishes Theodore Dreiser's novel that helps establish an enduring Chicago tradition: fiction in the raw, tawdry but compassionate. Published on this date, Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" was among the most auspicious debuts in...Tags: H.L. Mencken, Upton Sinclair, Michigan, Fiction, Saul Bellow
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'Death of a President'
Let's go through what "Death of a President" is not. It is not irresponsible. In low tones and with a furrowed "Frontline" brow, it pretends to be a documentary made in the year 2008, about the December 2007 assassination of President George W. Bush...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Cinema Industry, Terrorism, National Government, Government
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