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The triumph of muddle-nomics
Opinion, Сolumns
ROBERT J. SAMUELSON 
Oct 11, 2014
WASHINGTON — I have been reading Martin Wolf’s “The Shifts and the Shocks,” a detailed analysis of the 2008-09 financial crisis and its aftermath. Wol...
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Who will win the ridesharing war?
Opinion, Сolumns
CATHERINE RAMPELL 
Oct 11, 2014
WASHINGTON — Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Except less regulated. That’s my feeling about so-called ridesharing services such as Uber and L...
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Data dependence
Opinion, Сolumns
DANA MILBANK 
Oct 10, 2014
WASHINGTON — In the old days, life had many hardships. Among these: the need to wait until Election Day to determine who had won. But now Big Data has...
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A question of leadership
Opinion, Сolumns
MICHAEL GERSON 
Oct 10, 2014
WASHINGTON — Disloyal or not, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has delivered a root-and-branch critique of President Obama’s approach to the Midd...
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Is Christie running?
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Oct 09, 2014
NEWARK, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie could be forgiven if he had chips on both shoulders as big as those shoulders. This year, the first of his second t...
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Words to the wise
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHLEEN PARKER 
Oct 09, 2014
WASHINGTON — Words have a way of seeping into our vocabulary and, through overuse or distortion, soon begin to lose their meaning. Who could have imag...
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This week, Belichick’s persona softened
Columns, Sports
CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Oct 08, 2014
The clip was played over and over again. A week ago Tuesday, the day after his Patriots were eviscerated, 41-14, at Kansas City in a Monday night game...
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Obama steps up
Opinion, Сolumns
RUBEN NAVARRETTE JR. 
Oct 08, 2014
SAN DIEGO — There is nothing wrong with having a president who likes to debate. But things get awkward when he debates himself. We really don’t want a...
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One amazing transformation
Opinion, Сolumns
RUTH MARCUS 
Oct 08, 2014
WASHINGTON — Who would have thought: — That gay rights groups’ biggest concern would not be how the Supreme Court would rule on same-sex marriage but ...
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Bona basketball notebook
College Sports, Columns, Local Sports, ...
J.P. BUTLER Special to the Era 
Oct 08, 2014
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Some notes on the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team as it hits Day 4 of official practice: * There are a number of factors...
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UPB spikers beat Hilbert
Columns, Local Sports, Sports
Oct 08, 2014
The Pitt-Bradford volleyball team cruised to a 3-1 victory over the visiting Hilbert Hawks on Tuesday night at the KOA Arena. The Lady Panthers put th...
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The GOP’s mug-shot primary
Opinion, Сolumns
DANA MILBANK 
Oct 07, 2014
WASHINGTON — Why is the lineup of prospective GOP presidential candidates beginning to look like, well, a lineup? Chris Christie went to campaign last...
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On Ebola, hard choices
Opinion, Сolumns
MICHAEL GERSON 
Oct 07, 2014
WASHINGTON — Here is what officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health have been telling us: Amer...
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Whaley’s trio keyed Bills’ win
Columns, Sports
CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Oct 06, 2014
DETROIT — With the Bills having lost two straight after opening the season at 2-0, the negative light — and it wasn’t a laser — was shining on General...
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In Texas, an undue burden
Opinion, Сolumns
RUTH MARCUS 
Oct 05, 2014
WASHINGTON — I was in the jittery Supreme Court chamber on a summer morning in 1992 when the right to abortion was on the line. As the justices took t...
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A Bell-ringer in New Jersey
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Oct 05, 2014
PRINCETON, N.J. — Every 36 years, it seems Jeff Bell disturbs New Jersey’s political order. In 1978, as a 34-year-old apostle of supply-side economics...
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