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COLUMN: Masks and March: facing up to the question
By wearing a face mask when we can’t keep our distance from other people, so as to deprive…
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COLUMN: Civil War football and the lure of half-truths
Football, it scarcely needs to be said, is not war. The sport has borrowed quite a number of…
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COLUMN: Col. Baker and the defense of noble ideals
The United States of America will turn 244 in a couple of days, which is quite old for…
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COLUMN: Repression and radiation: The Soviet style
The summer when I was 15 I crossed the Berlin Wall, hiked in the Alps and was subjected…
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COLUMN: Savoring a battle with no human casualties
I have been waging a war for several weeks against a clever and determined enemy that’s trying to…
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COLUMN: Dreams can take us back to our childhood
I had a dream the other night and the setting was the home and neighborhood where I grew…
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COLUMN: Graduates’ slow ride should become tradition
It all started with a big bang. And after Jerry Corn touched off his cannon, the explosion reverberating…
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COLUMN: Changing hearts, minds harder than changing law
The struggle that black Americans endured to achieve basic civil rights was long and bloody, a period marked…
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COLUMN: Magical May; and the tale of a boy and a backhoe
I was puttering about in my yard the other evening, enjoying the carefree amble of a man whose…
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COLUMN: Skyjackers actually had a ‘golden age’ in the US
I grew up in Western Oregon during the 1970s and ’80s, which means I also grew up knowing…
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