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MY FIRST thought after hearing that SEPTA had gone on strike in the wee hours of Tuesday morning was to wonder if there was space available under the Meadowlands for Willie Brown and his crew. After all, Jimmy Hoffa must get lonely.
IF THERE'S any truth to the idea of karma, the Yankees won't be winning the World Series. Their fans don't deserve it.
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THERE I sat, at the edge of my bed, bleary-eyed at 10 past midnight. I had a court date in mere hours, but sleep was the farthest thing from my mind.
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Apregnant 17-year-old in Utah hires a man to beat her in an attempt to cause an abortion after her boyfriend threatens to leave if she has the baby.
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AHIGH-RANKING general publicly expresses an opinion about military operations that contradicts administration policy. The Pentagon and White House are apoplectic, and the general's comments are roundly condemned. But in the end, the soldier is proven right. Even so, he's forced to exit, stage left.
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EVERY NOW and then, life provides us with an interesting sort of symmetry. Last week, Susan Atkins, one of the female disciples of Charles Manson, died in prison - four decades after vivisecting a nine-months pregnant Sharon Tate. A few days later, Tate's husband at the time, Roman Polanski, was intercepted in Switzerland and held on a U.S. warrant more than three decades after becoming a fugitive.
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DEMOCRATS apparently don't like to be told that they embrace a culture of death. It's insulting and inflammatory, they say, and in at least one respect incorrect. (They usually oppose capital punishment.)
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WE ALL know the story about the Boy Who Cried Wolf, falsely claiming several times that he had been attacked. Finally, when the danger was real, no one believed him. And he ended up as an hors d'oeuvre.
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WE PARCEL out time, fitting it neatly into calendar slots, and slicing it up into the manageable slivers in which our lives are lived. Then, one day, something happens that blows it all apart.
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THERE ARE trials, and show trials. Investigations, and witch hunts. Sometimes, it's difficult to tell the difference, but usually it all boils down to politics.
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THE hagiography of Edward M. Kennedy began early Wednesday morning after the news that the "Lion of the Senate," the "greatest senator ever" and "the brother who mattered most," had taken his last breath in Hyannisport, Mass.
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ENOUGH already. Barack Obama, for all his flaws, isn't barred from being president because of a circumstance of birth. He's the son of a U.S. citizen mother and, whether born in Hawaii, Kenya or a manger in Bethlehem, is constitutionally qualified to hold this office.
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