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Matter of Opinion archive for Nov. 10, 2009

TUESDAY, NOV. 10, 2009

Tuesday's loose thread 

A nice woman who catches the bus where I do opined the other day that with hints of snow in the air, she bets some people still haven't got their winter tires on yet.Well, uh...guess what I just added to my to-do list.But if you…

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Endless issues 193 

Two national stories on today's front page, involve two of society's most polarized issues: abortion and capital punishment. The public seems to be rigidly divided across an uncrossable gulf on both topics, yet in my several decades on this planet I have seen considerable, even…

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