The eternal law of fear and hatred
A few hours before the arrests over the sweltering weekend of seven people accused of beating and stomping to death two men a neighborhood mob had pulled from a van...
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On silent wings and in shadows, preparing for war
Shadows and silence. The shadows appear seemingly out of nowhere. The shapes tell you that they're from an airplane, somewhere above. But it's the silence that accompanies them . ....
The genius that lives in the human heart
The answers we are looking for cannot be found in scientific journals, or in chronicles of news analysis and opinion. The answers we are looking for -- the answers we...
The gift that came in the mail one day
Gods may not answer letters -- as John Updike wrote in his famous story about Ted Williams' final baseball game for the Boston Red Sox -- but on occasion they...
Of coal mines, and light in dark places
The abundant, expensive, easy-on-the-eyes lighting in corporate boardrooms. ... The darkness and gloom of a subterranean coal mine. ... At first glance, the two places could not be more different....
Working to make your valuables utterly worthless
You know that guy? You know -- that guy. Worked on your floor at the office. Pretty nondescript -- pleasant fellow, smiled a lot, didn't make a lot of waves....
One final bit of advice from Ann Landers
On Saturday, in the Tribune and in newspapers around the world, the final Ann Landers column will run. Eppie Lederer died in June, but -- professional to the end, even...
Quiet hours come to the water cooler
"Now, that's certain to be the subject of water cooler conversation tomorrow morning," someone said, and my first thought was: No it's not. Not because the subject wasn't interesting or...
The theft of something beyond value
There's an especially repulsive kind of crime, one you hear about from time to time, and it takes place in hospitals. Men and women who are dying -- or men...
The deadline dash: Kup is turning 90
I suppose stranger things have happened than this -- a column in the Sunday Tribune celebrating and praising a columnist for the Sun-Times -- but special moments call for special...