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Privacy vs. transparency

WHERE do you draw the line? We each share and hold back a certain amount of our personal lives. Some of us are naturally open, while some of us tend […]

Putting a plug in the summer brain drain

DURING the school-year, critical academic skills are regularly reinforced. Summer is a completely different story as most kids hardly pick up a pencil during June, July...

Been there, done that

As the Obama administration and pundits nationwide continue to debate healthcare reform, how about the point of view of someone who’s lived under a nationalized...

Freeze frame at a millennium’s first decade’s end

Who would have thought in 1999 that Generations magazine would cover age anxieties of baby boomers? or the soothing effects of yoga (people need it)? or the rising...

Ricci v. DeStefano rightly overturned

TALK of “disparate impacts” and “Title VII” and “validated tests” and “race as a barrier to opportunity” can get pretty theoretical. Yet, how much more practical...

Angel of Financial Death, blandly smiling

BERNIE Madoff, we hardly knew ye. True, we know of your deeds well enough, and of the economic and personal devastation you visited upon so many, so expertly, like a...

Insiders’ debate: Is Obama good or bad for Israel?

CHICAGO — A debate on Israel at the annual meeting of the American Jewish Press Association featured a very informed and influential face-off. On one side was Alan...

Special somethings

We all have the things we carry along with us. We all have the bag or briefcase, sack or saddlebag that accompanies us. Held in our bags might be our […]

See this film (or stop complaining)

WITH the possible exception of university administrations, there is no institution as bereft of courage as Hollywood. In Hollywood courage is defined as savaging oil,...

Goldberg’s guide to good packing (a summer spur)

I don’t know. It seems I’m always packing or unpacking, either my suitcase or one of my kid’s. We’ve got a big family and no one lives in Denver anymore […]