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07/05/2009

Froma Harrop: Even Wal-Mart starts to see the light
AMERICANS AGREE on health care. Ask them, “Who should pay for it,” and they all answer, “Not me.” But follow up with, “Who, then?” and you have a fight on your hands.

Civilizing offenders requires community relationships
This is the last of four columns in a series about the nation’s oldest and most mature restorative juvenile justice system.

07/02/2009

David Brussat: Charles wins the Battle of Styles
I don’t think he is evil per se. He is just misled.

Froma Harrop: Varieties of politicians’ adultery
AN OPEN-MINDED individual, I am willing to support an adulterer for elective office. But my ability to look past marital infidelity depends on how much humiliation was heaped on the wife. The details matter.

06/30/2009

Edward Achorn: Enablers of modern slavery in R.I.
TO ITS ETERNAL GLORY, Rhode Island was one of the first states to abolish slavery. To its eternal shame, it is the only state that legally permits — via a loophole in state law — its modern version.

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