Who speaks for the disabled?
"No one knows better than I do what is best for my son." So began my conversation with Rita Burke, who along with her husband, Kevin, has raised seven kids....
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To Russia, with love
Consider this absurdity. You live in a tough neighborhood and fear your neighbors, so you do the logical thing — you buy a new lock for your front door. But...
The Holocaust’s enduring lessons
The Final Solution: Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald, Terezin, Chelmno, Sobibor, Majdanek, Belzec, Polish ghettos. Adolf Hitler'sNazis murdered 6 million Jews — 6 million girls, men, grandmothers, babies, uncles, neighbors,...
Marquis addition
Jason Marquis was the worst pitcher in the National League last year, a feat even I could have achieved. He had the most losses (16), highest ERA (6.02) and gave...
Hear victims’ voices
Columnist Garrison Keillor is right: We should not sanitize the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001, by censoring the tapes of the victims' desperate calls for help (Commentary, Aug. 23). Lest...
Don’t listen
When Tom Cruise either has a baby or graduates from medical school, I might then listen to his views on post-partum depression, psychiatry and drugs. Until then, the pretty boy...
Describing hijackers
Public editor Don Wycliff rightly notes that when Uncle Sam makes "alliances of convenience with all manner of distasteful characters," it affects us ("What makes a powerful story about Uzbekistan's...
Money talks
Regarding college football and the bowl system, I now understand how it works: the "C" in BCS is $ilent, much like the voice of reason in athletic$ today.
Mideast hypocrisy
An American is beheaded in Iraq, and the Arab world broadcasts the savagery with nary a protest in response ("U.S. civilian beheaded," Page 1, May 12). Israeli soldiers are attacked...
Egyptian history
Hesham El Nakib, head of the Egyptian Press Office in Washington, wrote in his Voice of the people letter that "Egypt has been a constant refuge for Jews, Muslims and...