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The truth hurts and helps, a review of ‘White Metropolis’
June 23, 2006BOOK REVIEW Honest Texas history, when you can find it, tends to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. So it is with Michael Phillips’ new history of Dallas, which pours salty truth into long-ignored wounds....
Read moreHeinrich Heine, poet and communist?
June 23, 2006Was he the greatest German poet, the greatest poet of his century? I won’t argue, but I love him the most! Heinrich Heine died 150 years ago — February 17, 1856 — and is still as...
Read moreAn American worker goes to Venezuela
June 23, 2006Like you, I am very concerned about the direction the Bush administration is leading our country and the impact of its policies on world developments. I was fortunate to be a participant at the 6th World...
Read moreMy father’s victory in the Pacific
June 23, 2006In 1995, in Chicago, veterans of Silver Post No. 282 celebrated the 50th anniversary of their victory over Japan, marching around a catering hall wearing their old service caps, pins, ribbons and medals. My father sat...
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