Happy ending for a war dog
By LISA HOFFMAN
In war, there are few winners whose lives are changed wholly for the good.
Fluffy the "commando dog" is one of them.
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Immigrants and our future labor needs
By MARGARET TALEV
McClatchy Newspapers
Pollster Sergio Bendixen was surveying legal immigrants this month about their attitudes on illegal immigration when he came…
Terrorist television
By CLIFFORD D. MAY
Free speech ain’t free in DeKalb, Georgia
Free speech is not only under assualt in Washington but also in DeKalb County, Georgia. …
It it real or is it Memorex?
President Bush's replacement of his chief of staff may, some feel, signal that he is willing to listen to those who say he must change if his party wants to…
Is deception the best way to serve one’s country?
In 1982, in a restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico, former Texas governor John Connally told me he thought the Warren Commission report on President John F. Kennedy's death was a whitewash. …
Which side of history?
What does it mean to say someone is on the wrong side of history? Something like this, as best I can tell: History is moving discernibly and inevitably in a…
Blood in the water
President Bush finally gave panicked Republicans their ritual sacrifice. Worried about the president's and their own slump in the polls and a White House repeatedly blindsided by events, they had…
College isn’t always the answer
High school seniors across America are anxiously awaiting word from college admissions offices in the next few weeks. Most would probably be surprised to learn that less than one third…
How Washington really works
Washington works by way of a unique, gravity-defying gravitas. The city is run by room-tilters and bobblehead-makers -- power auras that have little to do with official titles such as Senate…
