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Another book award scandal
Stop the presses! Another award scandal!
An author has been asked to withdraw from the shortlist for the National Book Awards, five days after she was mistakenly named a finalist by the National Book Foundation. Which leaves just one question: Why do people take awards so seriously?
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The folly of a Middle East "two-state solution'
The two-state solution meets the elephant in the room
Politicians, pundits and diplomats agree that a two-state solution is essential to peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians alike. Which leaves just one question: Can anyone recall a two-state solution that wasn't an unmitigated disaster?
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Standardized testing, reconsidered
Standardized tests = standardized kids?
Standardized tests may pressure schools and teachers to emphasize reading and writing, but what then?
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Does sport build character?
What I learned on a football field
Precisely what is it about sports that builds character? Take it from one who has been there and done that: It isn't sports per se that build character. It's defeat.
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Imagine America without Texas
Where would we be without Texas?
America without Texas? Are you serious? Can you imagine America without Ike Eisenhower, Van Cliburn, Dr. Denton Cooley or Tex-Mex cuisine?
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A fate worse than death: The Inquirer's obituaries
Profiles in courage (that you won't read in the Inquirer)
Death comes to everyone. But must everyone also be subjected to the cutesy irrelevance of an Inquirer obituary? This month, serious figures like Elkins Wetherill, Creed Black and Jerome Shestack became the latest victims of Philadelphia's newspaper of record.
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Was the Civil War necessary?
Second-guessing history: Was the Civil War necessary?
Was America's bloody Civil War really necessary? Should John Brown, who forced the issue, be pardoned? Or did the South force the issue by firing the first shot on Fort Sumter? These three intriguing questions are actually interconnected.
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The case of the blogging schoolteacher
When professionals blame their clients
Is Bucks County's blogging schoolteacher providing valuable insight into an educator's mind? Or is she violating the confidence of her youthful charges during their vulnerable formative years?
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The world's most useless job?
One cheer for Hooters
Who in his right mind would patronize a sexist, high-cholesterol, beer-swilling roadhouse like Hooters? Funny you should ask.
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Women's liberation, then and now
Feminism, from my generation to yours
Call me an old reactionary if it suits your purposes. But it was my generation, beginning in the late 1960s, that did the real heavy lifting of the women's liberation movement, against much stiffer odds than feminists face today.
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