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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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An editor's mea culpa
An apology about sex abuse
Let me face up to what's been keeping me awake nights these past weeks: My advice to women about how to deal with predatory males was ignorant, insensitive and hurtful, not to mention useless.
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About my column on sex abuse
Broad Street Review under siege: Lessons from a controversial column
My recent column on female responses to male sexual abuse unleashed a firestorm of angry mail and demands for my dismissal and worse. Since my role at BSR is to provoke discussion and educate myself, you may well ask: What have I learned from this experience?
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Male sex abuse and female naiveté
What should women do?
This is the controversial column on female responses to male sex abuse, for which I later apologized.
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Producers vs. critics: Two questions
What's it all about, theater folks?
Two questions I didn't have time to ask the theater producers at Broad Street Review's symposium on theater critics really boil down to one: Why, ultimately, do you do what you do?
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