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Amtrak at 42: Making the Grade
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Two cheers for Amtrak, which celebrated its 42nd anniversary on May 1. The nation's only intercity passenger rail service, derided by its critics and begrudged funding by Congress, is providing improved service and reliability. But this service is lopsided, favoring the Northeast Corridor — the electrified route from Washington to Boston. Here, you have a [...]
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The Making of McPaper
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Before the Internet laid siege to the well-being of newspapers, there was television, which made substantial inroads. It killed off evening newspapers across the country, including famous ones like The Washington Evening Star and The Chicago Daily News. Morning newspapers with a more elite, less blue-collar readership, thrived, although often their front pages were curiously long-winded [...]
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Harassment in Egypt, Then and Now
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A recent front-page story in The New York Times about harassment and sexual assaults on women in Egypt, which have increased over the past two years, reminds me of my own experience there more than three decades ago. I was a graduate student at the American University in Cairo in the late 1970s. From [...]
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A Gale-Force Wind Called Thatcher
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If there had been no Margaret Thatcher, the Brits might have had to invent her. When she blew into the premiership like a gale-force wind off the North Sea, her island nation appeared to be sinking. The economy was a mess and trade union activism was strangling Britain. In those days, the morning radio [...]
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When History and Its Myths Interfere with Today’s Issues
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Justice Anthony Kennedy nailed it when he said the Supreme Court was in uncharted waters when considering same-sex marriage. He might also have said that this means that society is unburdened with myth and legacy on this issue and can consider it almost on it merits; whereas homosexuality is as old and permanent as time, [...]
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