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Cancer patients deserve better (National Post, April 27, 2005

  • April 27, 2005
At my age, nobody hasn't had a personal brush with cancer. If not yourself, others in your extended family or circle of friends have it or did: Some are now dead, some have undergone multiple surgerie...
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Romance, not rape (National Post, April 20, 2005)

  • April 20, 2005
From the death-saturated month of March -- Terry Schiavo and the pope 24/7 -- the media turned in April to the life cycle's happier ritual of marriage. Two weeks ago it was the nuptials of Ken and Dei...
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Understanding Bellow's masterpiece (National Post, April 13, 2005)

  • April 13, 2005
In idle moments, I write limericks about famous writers. The challenge is to capture the broad strokes in four short lines. When Saul Bellow died last week at the age of 89, I pulled up his:Noble Saul...
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Adoption is forever (National Post, April 06, 2005)

  • April 6, 2005
When our children were toddlers, my husband and I planned a vacation by ourselves involving a transatlantic flight. Morbid images of downed planes and orphaned children assailed us. Since there were s...
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The human face of Bill 101 (National Post, April 04, 2005)

  • April 4, 2005
Last week, 28 years after the passage of Quebec's draconian language law, Bill 101, the Supreme Court of Canada definitively ended the hopes of francophone Quebec families seeking to educate their chi...
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In praise of the common parka (National Post, March 30, 2005)

  • March 30, 2005
Every spring, a true Canadian's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of next year's winter coat.In Montreal, where I live, winter often starts in early November and sometimes ends only in mid-May. We like ...
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Break the feminist lock on abortion policy (National Post, March 23, 2005)

  • March 23, 2005
Too bad Scott and Laci Peterson weren't Canadian. Had they been, the Conservatives might have felt emboldened to add a review of abortion policy to their agenda, instead of sweeping fetal rights under...
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Where are the women? (National Post, March 16, 2005)

  • March 16, 2005
Last Sunday, Maureen Dowd lamented the dearth of women on the opinion pages of America's newspapers. She herself is the only female op-ed columnist at The New York Times. The...
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The wrong town for bargain hunting (National Post, March 09, 2005)

  • March 9, 2005
NEW YORK - We were to go to Hollywood Beach for our annual week of winter respite. But I had been housebound with flu for two weeks. Instead of boring sunshine, I needed cultural liveliness, and propo...
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Mob rule at Harvard (National Post, March 02, 2005)

  • March 2, 2005
The Lawrence Summers affair just isn't going away, and its continuing presence in the news is a sad commentary on academic freedom in America.As everyone by now knows, on Jan. 14 Harvard University pr...
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In children's lit, orphans aplenty (National Post, February 23, 2005)

  • February 23, 2005
I await the auspicious moment my nine-month old granddaughter realizes her little wooden-paged starter books are for looking at rather than gnawing on. From there, it is but a short step to listening....
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Warm and fuzzy makes Johnny dim (National Post, February 16, 2005)

  • February 16, 2005
A sensational news item out of Toronto this month reports a "rising tide of parental rage." Parents are swearing at teachers in front of children, mouthing off at the school secretary or even launchin...
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Eulogist for the American dream (National Post, February 14, 2005)

  • February 14, 2005
Like many contemporaries who saw their parents diminished by external forces, Arthur Miller railed bitterly against the random suffering imposed by capitalism Broadway theatres dimmed their marquee...
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Hooray for Supernanny (National Post, February 9, 2005)

  • February 9, 2005
I used to observe, with affectionate condescension, my father watching boxing on the little black and white TV in our leave-it-to-Beaver '50s-era den. He got right into it: jabbing, weaving, frowning,...
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It's time to think about the children (National Post, February 5, 2005)

  • February 5, 2005
Not long ago I was seated at dinner beside an Ontario family law judge. I asked what his position was on adoption equity for gays. Would he, once gay marriage was entrenched, and in keeping with our g...
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The myth of Israeli 'apartheid' (National Post, February 2, 2005)

  • February 2, 2005
  It's little wonder that Palestinian terrorists have agreed to stop attacking Israel at the urging of newly elected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. They have no choice: Isr...
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Charlotte Simmons' world - and my own (National Post, January 29, 2005)

  • January 29, 2005
Master satirist of the American Zeitgeist Tom Wolfe has previously tackled the swarming social habitats of modern New York and Atlanta, and the cultural forces that shaped them. In h...
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The broken windows theory of marriage (National Post, January 26, 2005)

  • January 26, 2005
Eighteen months ago I wanted to write a column about the creeping respectability of polygamy, but my then-editor considered the topic too far-out. And lo, look what is making headlin...
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Academic freedom is under attack (National Post, January 12, 2005)

  • January 12, 2005
Canadian students in the arts and social science departments of our universities are being recruited to the hyperorthodoxies of multiculturalism, feminism, Marxism, postmodernism and...
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The news was his muse (National Post, January 5, 2005)

  • January 5, 2005
Two days after the Boxing Day monster tsunamis struck, 125 Russians leaped at the opportunity to purchase "disaster discount" tickets to Thailand for a beach holiday. I AM NOT MAKING...
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