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Editor's letter: Revisiting the slippery slope
feature Logicians call the slippery slope a classic logical fallacy.
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Editor's letter: Kentucky stereotypes, Kentucky pride
feature One news item resonates all too perfectly with what Bobbie Ann Mason once called “urban America’s nightmares” about Kentucky.
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Editor's letter: 300 categories of crazy
feature Critics of all kinds have lined up to assail the latest version of the American Psychiatric Association's bible of mental illnesses, the DSM-5, as subjective and lacking in scientific validity.
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Editor's letter: Willis Carrier's wondrous invention
feature The greatest invention in human history is not the wheel, and it’s certainly not sliced bread.
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Editor's letter: Rolling Stone’s cover photo
feature Many Bostonians are outraged at the magazine's cover photo of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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Editor's Letter
feature I work in a big city, where the screams of a passing siren barely dent one’s consciousness and only the most sensational crimes make the local papers. Then there is The Gazette, the weekly newspaper that covers the small community in which I live. The vil
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Editor's Letter
feature Michelle Obama is one accomplished woman. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, she’s worked for a top-notch law firm and for the city of Chicago. Now she’s a high-powered hospital executive, a firebrand on the stu
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Editor's Letter
feature When I heard that Charlton Heston had died, I called my younger brother. We talked for several animated minutes about the brawny action star with whom we’d grown up—the jut-jawed monolith who survived an earthquake, single-handedly stood down a planet of
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Editor's Letter
feature In my mind’s eye, he’ll always be the angular, wavy-haired superstar in a bespoke suit that he was in his prime—not the pathetic, stateless, wild-bearded anti-Semite that he devolved into. In remembering Bobby Fischer this way, I know I’m romanticizing hi
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Editor's Letter
feature Another week, another massacre. Last week, a mentally ill young man armed with three handguns and a pump-action shotgun began firing inside a crowded auditorium at Northern Illinois University, but he managed to kill “only” five people and wound 16 before
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Editor's Letter
feature The cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed are causing trouble again. First published by a Danish newspaper in 2005, the 12 satirical editorial cartoons were intended as a challenge to Islamic extremists: Don’t tell us what we can and can’t print. Some of the i
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Editor's Letter
feature Want proof that the TV writers’ strike is really over? Saturday Night Live is back in the controversy business. In its first new show of the year, SNL chose non-black cast member Fred Armisen to portray Barack Obama in a presidential debate skit. It wasn’
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Editor's Letter
feature My wife and I were surprised some years ago when my younger daughter, Jessica, was born with blue eyes. We both have brown. I remembered enough from high school biology to deduce that both of us had inherited a recessive blue-eye gene from our parents; in
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Editor's Letter
feature The world is coming to an end. Chicken Little was correct about this, if a bit premature; the only relevant questions are how, and when. The current conventional wisdom is that Doomsday will occur no later than 2 billion years hence, when the sun expands,
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