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Jobless worker is still clocking in - April 18, 2011 - Dear Amy: How does one get over the loss of a job they've had for a long time?
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Bulls' fans lend hand in Game 1 victory - April 17, 2011 - Bulls fans must be given some credit for their team's comeback victory Saturday over the Pacers.
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Matt Bowen
Steelers' overload blitz creates problem - February 5, 2011 - The Steelers defense under coordinator Dick LeBeau will use complex blitz schemes Sunday against Aaron Rodgers and the Packers in Super Bowl XLV.
Barbara Brotman
Manchester United fans swear by their team - April 18, 2011 - Someone who walked into the Temple Bar unprepared might have been taken aback.
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George Will
The immigration enforcer - March 4, 2011 - WASHINGTON — During his first 18 years in Congress, the view from Lamar Smith's office was of a parking lot. Now, in his 13th term, he looks out upon the Capitol dome. Seniority confers perquisites.
Dennis Byrne
The problem with income taxes is us - April 5, 2011 - What better time to take a shot at Big Business for "paying no taxes" than when we're struggling to complete our own income tax returns?
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Steve Chapman
A conservative defense of Obamacare - April 17, 2011 - Opponents of President Barack Obama's health care program lost the legislative battle, but they have high hopes of stopping it yet. That could be accomplished by defeating Obama in 2012 and electing a Republican Congress. Or it could be done sooner, without an election, by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Joe Trost's Corner Kicks
Time to move girls season to fall? - April 14, 2011 - Is it time to move girls soccer season to the fall, like Indiana and a number of other states?
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Meghan Daum
Campaign of misinformation - April 15, 2011 - In the ongoing rancor surrounding federal funding of Planned Parenthood, misinformation has a starring role. There have been, of course, predictable gusts of hot air from pundits like Bill O'Reilly, who asserted last month that "nobody's life is affected by Planned Parenthood," and Brian...
Don Dziedzina
Fishing gulf jetties for sheepshead - April 15, 2011 - ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — The catch was quite a surprise.
Leah Eskin
Flight of fancy - April 17, 2011 - Trudging along the concourse, en route from Gate Here to Gate There, I was struck by a vision. It's not unprecedented. Some people routinely conjure up the worst-case scenario.
Four Corners
Should Bonds go to prison for obstruction of justice? - April 17, 2011 - He should be locked up
Ilyce Glink
Megaregions on course to recast blueprints for U.S. housing market - April 15, 2011 - The world is flat, the economy is global, and on any given day you're as likely to speak to a call center in India or the Philippines as you are to visit your grocery store. The world's boundaries have blurred, but at the same time the easy and immediate communication of a Twitter or Facebook...
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Jonah Goldberg
Free speech vs. Qurans - April 13, 2011 - "Since American liberals don't have the guts to say it, allow me: The Rev. Terry Jones hasn't done anything wrong. Nothing."
Teddy Greenstein
Chicago may lose out on PGA regular event - April 12, 2011 - One mystery has been solved, but another question remains.
David Haugh
Hawks salute double-amputee soldier - April 18, 2011 - Minutes before the Blackhawks began a night they needed inspiration as badly as they needed a power-play goal, a wheelchair rolled Sgt. 1st Class John Masson off the United Center ice.
Melissa Harris
CME chief sitting on sidelines in chase for NYSE - April 17, 2011 - When Chicago's CME Group went public in 2002, the parent of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange was worth a little more than $1 billion. Investors today value the company at $20.6 billion.
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Philip Hersh
Notre Dame to put Texas A&M's defense to the test in title game - April 4, 2011 - This looks like a case of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object.
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Jon Hilkevitch
In spirit of cheap flight, airline succeeds - April 17, 2011 - The offer was irresistible: an $11 airfare, Chicago to Los Angeles.
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Steve Johnson
'Bossypants' an entertaining but safe foray into Fey's life - April 14, 2011 - Tina Fey doesn't tell a lot of stories on herself, not really, in her new book "Bossypants," which is actually bits of so many books that it could be placed fairly in Memoirs, Management, Women's studies, Comedy, or that section where they give you book club recommendations. (This assumes that you...
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Chris Jones
'Tree': Story of interracial family grows in surprising ways - April 13, 2011 - At the top of "Tree," the new play by Julie Hebert, a white woman from Louisiana knocks at the door of a modest bungalow on Chicago's South Side, where an African-American family resides. The woman's father has died, and she has discovered some letters revealing another love, and maybe another set...
Greg Kot
Top rock shows - April 14, 2011 - Wax Trax! Records Retrospectacle — 33 1/3 Year Anniversary: Time to break out the jack boots and bomber jackets, the label that put "industrial" on the musical map is back for a celebration of its late founders, Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher, with proceeds going to charity. Among the...
David Sobolewski
'We had bigger goals' - March 21, 2011 - Obviously, the Benet team and community had an extremely rough time with the unexpected end to the season.
Dean Richards
Hathaway, Foxx find excitement, fun in 'Rio' - April 15, 2011 - RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — He's an Oscar winner. She is an Oscar nominee and also, now, an Oscar host. Jamie Foxx and Anne Hathaway are two of the voices of some fine feathered friends in the new animated film "Rio" that opens this weekend.
Daneen Skube
What to do when work hands you lemons? - April 12, 2011 - Q. I have had several really out of the blue work crises this year that have me feeling shocked and dismayed. I was raised to think good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people. The worst part is that I've had smug coworkers with better fortune saying I must deserve my bad...
Gregory Karp
Quiz: Your money literacy - April 15, 2011 - Money is continually coming into our lives and leaving it, but that doesn't mean practice makes perfect.
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John Kass
The amazing Blago keeps coming back - April 17, 2011 - Let's say you're in downtown Chicago near the federal building next week when a stranger approaches, a twitchy guy, almost manic, with that signature puffy hair and those ridiculously expensive Oxxford suits.
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Julia Keller
Lineup of great new sleuths - April 15, 2011 - Philip Kerr's Bertie Gunther, Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch, Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallender and Dennis Lehane's Patrick Kenzie are all terrific, but the roll call of top-flight fictional crime-solvers seems to get longer by the billable hour. Here are even more dynamic detectives and the...
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Rick Kogan
Mom 'n' pop(corn) - April 10, 2011 - I do not have to tell you about Garrett Popcorn Shops, do I?
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Charles Krauthammer
Scaling back the federal government - April 18, 2011 - The most serious charge against House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan's budget is not the risible claim, made most prominently by President Barack Obama in his George Washington University address, that it would "sacrifice the America we believe in." The serious charge is that the Ryan...
Gail MarksJarvis
As crude prices rise, so does anxiety about commodities and stocks - April 13, 2011 - With oil prices on the rise and consumers paying more than $4 a gallon for gasoline, attention has been fixated on when pump prices might reach $5. Few people have asked whether the oil market is overheated.
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Dan McNeil
In Game 2, Hawks need greatest hits - April 14, 2011 - Some hockey statistics often fail to represent how a game really went. Shots on goal, for example, often are as misleading as time of possession can be in football.
Nina Metz
Toast of Cannes has a Chicago connection - April 15, 2011 - Every time Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul has gone to Cannes with a film, he has been booed — and every time, this School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumnus has walked away with a prize.
Clarence Page
Obama's re-election budget - April 17, 2011 - After hearing President Barack Obama's robust response to their budget-cutting proposals, Republican leaders seemed shocked to hear that the president sounds like — gasp! — a Democrat.
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Robert Pagliarini
Don't let bad friends drag you down - April 12, 2011 - It turns out Garth Brooks was right. When you have friends in low places, you'll have plenty of company to help you drown your blues away. But did you ever consider that your friends are contributing to your problems? Research shows that who you are is a function of who you know. Your friends help...
Kathleen Parker
Demonizing the GOP, losing the budget war - April 14, 2011 - So why do Republicans hate art, the elderly and children?
Mark Pearlstein
It's not interference; board can choose cable provider - April 15, 2011 - Q. Our condominium board changed our local cable and Internet providers. The owners of the building were not consulted about this change. Our monthly rates for these services decreased, but we all incurred considerable installation fees.
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Michael Phillips
Where the past returns out of the rich greens and blues - April 14, 2011 - "Why did you grow your hair so long?" It's a common question among parents of various cultures, directed toward their returning sons. But suppose your returning son has transformed into a Monkey Ghost, with thick black hair covering every inch of his body. He is the abominable hairman. What then?
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Leonard Pitts
There's always room for hate and ignorance - February 25, 2011 - Suggested things to say when a woman is sexually assaulted: Is there anything I can do? I am so sorry this happened. I am with you.
Janet Portman
Mold moves tenant to ask for another unit - April 15, 2011 - Q. I've been in my apartment for a couple of years and recently began seeing green-black mold in the closet, bedroom and hallway. It won't go away, even when I clean with a bleach solution and ventilate. I think it's the cause of a persistent cough.
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Mary Ellen Podmolik
Sitting pretty in a vacant for-sale home - April 15, 2011 - When does a vacant home for sale, foreclosure or not, have that lived-in look? When someone is living in it.
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Dan Pompei
Bears must address future needs in NFL draft - April 16, 2011 - Too many NFL general managers look at their draft needs through reading glasses, studying just what's in front of their noses. What they really need are binoculars so they can see what's coming in the distance.
Howard Reich
Wild Hare: A Chicago reggae landmark prepares to close - April 18, 2011 - Late last Friday night, Chicagoans were streaming into the Wild Hare, a landmark reggae club in Wrigleyville.
Phil Rogers
Bonds deserves to serve time - April 16, 2011 - From the perspective of a citizen, not a baseball writer, it seems right for Barry Bonds to serve some jail time for his felony conviction on obstruction of justice.
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Phil Rosenthal
WLS-Ch. 7 in makeover mode as Winfrey, soaps wind down - April 17, 2011 - Oprah Winfrey on Friday morning, via Twitter, was lamenting "that last teq shot" the night before, having celebrated the New York upfront sales presentation for OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, her cable venture with Discovery Communications.
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Ameet Sachdev
Conflict of interest stops many Howrey partners from joining Winston & Strawn - April 5, 2011 - Winston & Strawn cast a wide net for Howrey partners but most of them got away.
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Mary Schmich
Inside Rod's head, in search of pistachios - April 17, 2011 - From the Chicago Tribune last week: A federal judge Thursday signaled "game on" for next week's scheduled corruption retrial of Rod Blagojevich, forcing the former governor back to court after occupying himself for months with frequent proclamations of victimhood and...
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Dawn Turner Trice
Neighborhood revitalization gets artist's touch - April 18, 2011 - By the time Theaster Gates received an interdisciplinary master's degree in urban planning, religious studies and ceramics in 2006, he already knew it would be difficult to find the perfect job combining all three of his passions.
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Mary Umberger
Turning a negative market into positive one - April 15, 2011 - Before she was a TV fixture as the real estate contributor for NBC's "Today" show, Barbara Corcoran founded what grew to be a powerhouse among New York brokerages. Started with $1,000 she borrowed from a boyfriend, the Corcoran Group was acquired in 2001 by NRT, a unit of the Cendant real estate...
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Phil Vettel
What's Flemish for 'gastropub?' - April 14, 2011 - Many restaurants have created beer dinners. Leopold, which opened in early January, may be the only known instance of a beer dinner creating a restaurant.
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John von Rhein
Muti, CSO feel the love all weekend at Carnegie Hall - April 17, 2011 - The strategy behind Riccardo Muti's conquest of Carnegie Hall over the weekend could hardly have been better calculated.
Ellen Warren
Think hats for spring - April 14, 2011 - Spring flowers. Easter season. The royal wedding. That's three good reasons that you might be thinking about hats.
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Bob Weber
Elbow grease required - April 14, 2011 - Q-I have a 1999 Ford Windstar with about 140K miles and all my gauges (speedometer, fuel, oil, water temp, RPM) intermittently go haywire. There is no set pattern. It can be at start up, then settle down to normal, then happen again. My local Ford dealer has seen it happen, but...
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Jen Weigel
It's OK to say 'great job' - April 18, 2011 - Being completely satisfied as a customer can be a rare experience. I'd had such a positive encounter recently that I asked for a number to call and sing their praises.
Jon Yates
Airline charges extra $1,392 for sick orphan's ticket - April 17, 2011 - As she sat in the Nairobi airport awaiting her flight, 6-year-old Akaliza Alia became nervous.
Eric Zorn
Photos of stuff keep memories alive (and storage areas clear) - April 17, 2011 - I took a picture of the kids' lunch boxes last week. I've been packing and helping to pack them, washing them out every so often and searching for them frantically for the last several years, but they're starting to fall apart and their time has come.
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