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Opinion King’s Last Message
The birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. that Americans observed this week was the 39th since he died in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968 at age 39. He has now been dead for as many years as he lived. In a profound sense, he now belongs to history. Over the years, our nation has made it…
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Opinion Two Cheers for Arnold
To no one’s surprise, the Democratic takeover of Congress has been accompanied by a sudden renewal of the national debate over health care. Less predictably, the debate was kicked off this week by a Republican, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California. Like most governors, Republican or Democratic, Schwarzenegger is frustrated by the economic and human costs…
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Opinion Looking Back, and Forward
In a world that seems ever more dark and gloomy with each passing year, the year that just ended, 2006, managed to leap up a notch or two and leave us gloomier and more troubled, by several orders of magnitude, than most of us had thought imaginable. It was a year that opened, as soberingly…
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Opinion Drawing Red Lines
Even as college students enjoy their winter break, a nasty feud has erupted over Israel activism on campus. As the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports on Page 6, the right-wing Zionist Organization of America is pushing for the left-wing Union of Progressive Zionists to be booted from the main umbrella body for pro-Israel groups on campus….
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Opinion The Tide Is Turning
An Indian island in the Bay of Bengal was reported by researchers last week to be the first inhabited island on earth swept away by rising seas as a result of global warming. The island, Lohachara, near the mouth of the Ganges, had a population of 10,000. The residents have fled to a larger neighbor,…
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Opinion Israel, Syria and Bush’s Veto
Israel’s worst-kept diplomatic secret became public knowledge this week when its prime minister, Ehud Olmert, told his Cabinet that he was against taking up a dramatic new Syrian offer for peace talks — because doing so would undermine President Bush. Well, at least the cat is out of the bag. Olmert has been under intense…
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Opinion Stop Worrying: Details Follow
It takes a special kind of courage to bring Jews good news. We are a people bred on tales of past disaster and impending doom. The very hint that things might be going well for us, that calamity isn’t lurking around the corner, seems to drive some of our brethren to the brink of distraction….
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Opinion The Conclave of Hate
In a way, the Iranian regime may have done the world a favor when it decided to host this week’s international gathering of Holocaust deniers. By rolling out the red carpet for the ugliest gathering in recent memory of frauds, nutballs, white racists and unreconstructed Nazis from every dark corner of the world, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…
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