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Sauerberg backtracks from attack on Durbin
Chicago Tribune reporterRepublican U.S. Senate challenger Steve Sauerberg backtracked Tuesday from questioning Sen. Dick Durbin's patriotism after the Democrat emotionally accused his rival of employing "the lowest form of politics." In an hourlong meeting with the Tribune...Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Government, Veterans Affairs, Willowbrook, Richard Durbin
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar, by Paul Theroux
Traveling alone through Turkey in the hot, overcrowded "Van Golu" Express on his way to Iran in the early 1970s, Paul Theroux painted an indelible picture of the "hippies" loitering in the train's corridors, vagabonds from the privileged first world...Tags: Family, Transportation, Railway Transportation
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Radovan Karadzic: Just a moral hypocrite
He looks like a cross between Santa Claus and a New Age guru, and he calls himself an alternative healer. But Radovan Karadzic, who was arrested in Serbia on Monday, stands accused of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. To those who know...Tags: International Law, War Crimes, Philosophy, Medicine, Religious Conflicts
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Dith Pran, 65; helped reveal 'Killing Fields'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOne day during the rise of the Khmer Rouge regime in the mid-1970s, American journalist Sydney Schanberg asked his Cambodian assistant, Dith Pran, a gnawing question. How would Dith respond to the American diplomat in Phnom Penh who had been publicly...Tags: The White House, Yale University, Government, Health and Safety at School, New York Times
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Change: the empty word
It's hard to think of a more meaningless political watchword than "change," but "change" is what the presidential candidates are promising. Barack Obama's endless repetition of the word won him the Iowa caucuses, prompting other Democratic and...Tags: Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Government, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Mukasey's confession
'Out of the mouths of babes," goes the old saying -- to which we now may add, "and from the mouths of attorneys general." When Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey went before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week to testify about the Bush administration's...Tags: The White House, Armed Forces, Edward M. Kennedy, Theft, Government
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Dick Durbin's challenge
Christi Parsons is a national correspondent based in the Tribune's Washington bureau. cparsons@tribune.com If there were a yearbook for Illinois senators, Dick Durbin might mistakenly be labeled as the guy who is "also pictured." After all, when he first...Tags: Family, Metra, Philosophy, Polls, Lower House
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'After Pho'
Wednesday at 5, every week, the mother and daughter come in with white smiles. I sit them near the fish tank or banyan-tree picture. You can see that they hope I say, The usual? but I never do. It is American, Great-uncle told me. He says, Make every time...Tags: Family, Consumer Electronics Industry, Injuries, Salvation Army, Toys
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Mukasey's black magic on torture
Maybe it was in honor of the Halloween season. The Bush administration's Justice Department has been a horror show for years now, complete with gruesome exhibits like the infamous 2002 "torture memo." And in his recent Senate confirmation hearings, the...Tags: Lawyers, Government, Michael Mukasey, Abusive Behavior, National Government
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Stalin was an atheist -- so am I
Antony Flew will go to hell. So will the rest of us who reject Jesus Christ as our savior, according to Bible-believing Christians. But Flew, an 84-year-old English philosopher, is a hot item in some evangelical circles. In 2006, Biola University -- a...Tags: Protestant, Albert Einstein, Heads of State, Colleges and Universities, Philosophy
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Mass murderers on notice
Can monsters be deterred? Or are the people who commit the most unthinkable crimes against humanity — mass murder, torture, genocide — so hell-bent on evil that the normal considerations of common criminals, such as fear of being caught, don't apply? If...Tags: International Law, War Crimes, Murder, Criminal Laws, Abusive Behavior
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Tyrants' top 10, with a bullet
"Hitler's outward hatred for Jews and Russians may have belied a secret passion for some of their greatest musical works, if a recently discovered cache of records proves to be the remains of his private music collection. The nearly 100 records, now...Tags: Major League Baseball, Osama bin Laden, New York Times, Bob Newhart, Landforms
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