Thoughts from the past
Monday's official celebration of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday brings with it a reminder of the nation's progress in civil rights, as underscored in a previously undisclosed...
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NEWSROOM MEMORIES
This weekend, the Chicago Sun-Times workers will move out of the 47-year-old building that soon will be demolished to make way for Donald Trump's new tower. On Monday, the newspaper...
`NASCAR Dads’ a political engine?
It's a presidential election year, so gentlemen (and ladies) of the political press, start your catchphrase machine! When President Bush surfaced at the Daytona 500 last Sunday, there may well...
Run–but not like you’re fleeing a crime or anything
Perhaps there are just limits to the notoriety stemming from a ghastly criminal case and the national suspicion that somebody got away with, well, murder. Perhaps we can let bygones...
Every second counts (please see attached), says UAL’s law firm
A word of advice for the mechanics, pilots, flight attendants and ticket counter personnel at United Airlines: In your next lives, go to law school. Big-time bankruptcies can be a...
Be a doll, stranger
An African-American yuppie couple is ambling down Michigan Avenue, when the woman quickens her pace to catch up with a Caucasian man in his 50s. "Excuse me, sir," she says...
Showing heart in news judgment
Two 40-ish cardiologists, an Israeli man and an American woman, entered an elevator in the InterContinental Hotel during the recent humongous gathering of the American Heart Association and compared convention...
At magazine awards, the rich get richer
The National Magazine Awards, the Oscars of the industry, proved Wednesday that a media-wide gap between the haves and have-nots may well be widening in a melancholy period for the...
From the archives: A feisty Scalia tackles the death penalty
Nervous anxiety unexpectedly coursed through the decorous, overflow crowd at the University of Chicago Divinity School late Friday. A stocky black man took to a microphone at a death penalty...
Nixon talks turkey
The American presidency is rife with rituals, including the one observed last week by President Bush: The presentation of a live turkey at the White House. It's a ritual found...