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Taking down classroom crosses

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MILAN - Crosses may be seeing their final days on the walls of Italian public schools. The European Court of Human Rights said the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and educational freedoms.



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BCS on track to do its usual

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The Bowl Championship Series is going to oust deserving teams again, and this time there is a possibility that the damage might extend to multiple schools.

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Buying into the upside

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As a journalism major, stock market talk isn’t my forte. But I do know a general strategy for playing the stock market, and that is “Buy Low, Sell High.”





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Paying the unemployed

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It should come as no surprise that U.S. jobless rates are rising again. Last month it jumped to 10.2 percent, a 26-and-half-year high that puts shame on the administration that swore they would do everything to keep Americans employed. Some analysts even claim that getting one of the 2.4 million jobs available is about as tough as getting into Harvard.  Needless to say, the odds are not good.


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Free trade, help consumers

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Anyone who has taken an introductory economics class, purchased cheap goods made in foreign countries or witnessed the explosive job growth throughout North America – including the U.S. – after NAFTA went into effect should know that trade is a beneficial endeavor on the whole.


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A tax cut to create jobs

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Before the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the $787 billion stimulus package) was passed, President Obama’s economics team issued a report on what it thought would happen to the economy with and without this stimulus. The recovery plan was supposed to lower the peak unemployment from about 9 to 8 percent. Unemployment just passed 10 percent.



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For future generations

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Unless something changes, unemployment will have a grave impact on our economy for decades to come. Prolonged unemployment results in “scarring” or, as John Irons of the Economic Policy Institute defines it, “long-lasting damage to individuals’ economic situations and the economy more broadly.”


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Indiana attorney general urges court to overturn case

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Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller co-authored a friend-of-the-court brief last week urging the U.S. Supreme Court to modify or overturn its June decision in the case Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, which requires crime lab analysts to appear in court to testify to their results.


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Bob, Bogart & the Kindness Bus

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Parked in the left-hand lanes of Kirkwood and Dunn avenues next to Peoples Park was the kindness bus. Sleeping alone on a mattress on the floor, Votruba prepares for the next decade of his life as a rubber tramp.




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A reminder from Italy

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WE SAY International law must be revised or obeyed to maintain its integrity.


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Rihanna’s decision

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Last year around election time, I wrote a column about the influence that celebrities have on society. The inspiration for my column was a public service announcement featuring stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Aniston and Halle Berry encouraging Americans to vote. I thought they talked to their audience in a condescending way.


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Women’s rights are human rights

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Women are sorely underrepresented in positions of power and authority around the world. There is in only one nation on Earth, Rwanda, that has more women represented in government than men. In every single other government on the globe there are more men making government decisions than women. Is this a problem? I think so.