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In our opinion Scouting success will come from devotion to ideals
For a century, the Boy Scouts of America has provided the young men of Utah an unparalleled program of character development through outdoor adventure, leadership training and service. The state's communities have benefited enormously — not just from the untold hours of service — but from the values of the Scout Oath and Law that have been instilled into the hearts of so many. ...
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Ban solitary confinement for youth in care of the federal government
Enlarge A cell at the Pinellas County jail, an adult facility where young people are held in solitary confinement. One girl interviewed for the report said she spent four months in isolation ...
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Backing Becks Dont Knock The Soccer Stars Talents
David Beckham spent six years in the U.S. with the LA Galaxy before returning to Europe earlier this year. The most unforgiving criticism in sport is directed at any athlete who fans believe is celebrated too excessively above his true talent level -- especially those stars who are gloried because they're such pretty people. To wit: As David Beckham retires, so much attention is ...
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Protect rights of women girls with disabilities
Angela was 11 years old when a court in Australia ordered that her uterus be removed. Why? Because Angela has Rett syndrome, a neurological disorder resulting in severe intellectual and physical impairments, and epilepsy. A judge decided that it was in her "best interests" to have a hysterectomy. The decision to start a family is a deeply personal one, and one that these days is often ...
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Minnesota adoptees lack equal access to personal history
Two seemingly unrelated stories in the news - marriage equality and Angelina Jolie’s preventive mastectomies - have a connection for some Minnesotans. Many members of state’s adoption community have sought for decades to regain the right of adult adoptees to have access to their original birth certificates. Our attempts to restore this right, which was taken away in the 1940s under ...
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Angelina Jolie and knowing our genetic risks
Last week, I decided I wanted a Reuben sandwich, and I was missing sauerkraut. For my Reubens, not just any sauerkraut will do. So I got in my car, strapped myself in, drove to the co-op that carries it and paid an ungodly amount for The Best Sauerkraut In The World. I got home, laid out my ingredients, and started drooling at the prospect of my delicious, most-craved Reuben. And then I ...
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Letter Testing Students Again The Teachers Union View
To the Editor: Re ...
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Letter Weak on Food Inspection
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Letter The Financial Outlook
To the Editor: Citing remarks I made at the Sohn Conference, Jesse Eisinger has it right that I am critical of the Federal ...
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Letter Journalism in New Orleans
To the Editor: On behalf of the more than 150 extraordinary journalists at The Times-Picayune and its Web site, NOLA.com, I want to assure David Carr that we are not the ...
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Letter The Trauma of Abuse
To the Editor: Re ...
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Editorial An Imperfect Immigration Bill Survives
The bipartisan immigration bill that passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday has many serious hurdles ahead. It is the most serious and worthy attempt to fix immigration in a generation, but it cannot help reflecting the poisoned politics of today, with its heavy tilt toward needless border enforcement and a deficiency in equal rights. In the most moving and wrenching moment in ...
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Op-Ed Columnist Serving Up Schlock
Networks are generally leery of shows that are set in the past. TV executives think younger viewers ...
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Minnesota Legislatures 2013 legacy Why
Mark Dayton and DFL leaders are wasting little time to extol their "accomplishments" of this year’s legislative session. We, not surprisingly, have a different take and a lot of questions. Why did legislators raise permanent taxes by more than $2 billion to resolve a $627 million short-term deficit? They could have adopted a balanced approach by going through the budget line by ...
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Editorial cartoons May 21-31 2013
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his fangirls
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Fangirls feel sorry for "Jahar," the nickname he used as a Twitter handle and that is now part of dozens of hashtags (#FreeJahar is a favorite), Facebook pages and Tumblr ...
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Somalias Displaced The Reform Test
"They don’t care about us," the Somali woman told us. "They don’t rescue us when the women are crying for help." She was describing the people who controlled her camp for displaced people in the capital city, Mogadishu. In fact, the voices of Somalia’s displaced have been regularly ignored, and often actively silenced. It is an important time to listen to ...
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Op-Docs Sex Offender Village
For this Op-Doc video, we visited a small community in Florida known as ...
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Editorial Another Chilling Leak Investigation
With the decision to label a Fox News television reporter a possible ...
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Op-Ed Columnist Tell Me How This Ends
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Op-Ed Contributor The View From an Oklahoma Basement
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Op-Ed Contributor Chinas Brutal One-Child Policy
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Minneapolis police chiefs troubling lack transparency
Minneapolis police chief, she told the Star Tribune Editorial Board that her priorities for the department included transparency. In fact, the motto "Commitment, Integrity, Transparency" appears on most correspondence from her office. Earlier this month, she faced one of her first big tests in community relations. Two Minneapolis police officers were shot and two young men died ...
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Editorial How to help tornado victims
The devastation caused by Monday’s massive tornado through parts of Oklahoma City and its suburbs calls upon Washingtonians to lend a helping ...
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Editorial Aaron Reardon should make resignation official
SNOHOMISH County Executive Aaron Reardon’s voluntary departure from his elected post should be acknowledged by more than a startling paragraph in a routine speech. Two months ago in a State of the County address, Reardon announced he would step down May 31. That was pretty much it. He owes county residents a more formal, and pragmatic departure. Reardon should not compound a string of ...
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