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A night for clock-watchers (National Post, December 29, 2004)

  • December 29, 2004
Where Time's wing'd flight is concerned, New Year's Eve is one of the few occasions when I am completely in sync with my fellows. Nobody wants to miss the countdown at 11:59 p.m., so...
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Peter Pan's dark side (National Post, December 22, 2004)

  • December 22, 2004
Dec. 27 marks the 100th anniversary of Peter Pan's opening to instant success at London's Duke of York theatre. I well remember my own Christmastime childhood introduction to its mag...
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Propaganda in the classroom (National Post, December 15, 2004)

  • December 15, 2004
Today's column is in part an amateur poll on intellectual harassment in our universities. I'm asking Canada's future educators and lawmakers -- students in, or recent grads from, the...
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Miracle on 42nd Street it ain't (National Post, December 08, 2004)

  • December 8, 2004
Pre-emptive self-mockery has long been a Jewish specialty. This past weekend, I cracked up at an especially hilarious recent specimen: The Hebrew Hammer. Written and dire...
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We don't care about our heroes (National Post, December 01, 2004)

  • December 1, 2004
CBC's Greatest Canadian final showdown was excruciatingly disagreeable to watch for content and presentation reasons. Additionally offensive was the absence of those who didn't make ...
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Democracy needs no apology (National Post, November 24, 2004)

  • November 24, 2004
I have singled out Globe and Mail columnist Heather Mallick for censure in the past, I'm rounding on her again today, and if she continues to set herself up for ridicule as Canada's ...
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Speaking of Arafat's death (National Post, November 17, 2004

  • November 17, 2004
What public officials say when bad leaders die is revealing. Their words reflect what they assume the constituencies they represent believe, or what they assume will be tolerated bei...
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Through Survivors' Eyes (FrontPageMagazine.com, November 17, 2004)

  • November 17, 2004
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 17, 2004   Through Survivors' Eyes: From the Sixties ...
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How Hollywood killed John Kerry (National Post, November 10, 2004)

  • November 10, 2004
  May one gloat if one was right? Indulge me. Last December, in a review of retiring Georgia Senator Zell Miller's book about the Democratic Party, A National Party No More, I co...
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A pox on both their houses (National Post, November 03, 2004)

  • November 3, 2004
No, I'm not talking about Bush and Kerry -- but rather two evils that have plagued America: the Ku Klux Klan and Communism. The homegrown KKK was overtly depraved and killed or terro...
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Diversity in Dixieland (National Post, October 27, 2004)

  • October 27, 2004
SAVANNAH, Ga. and CHARLESTON, S.C. - Everyone asks: Has American politics ever been so divisive? Last week I toured Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., two solidly Bush states that di...
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Our lost culinary innocence (National Post, October 20, 2004)

  • October 20, 2004
A bout of stomach flu took me out of commission last week, and for 36 hours I could think of nothing but the impossibility of ever eating another thing. In fact, I wondered how I had...
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The battle isn't always to the brainy (National Post, October 13, 2004)

  • October 13, 2004
How much intellect is necessary -- or even desirable -- in a world leader? How about in the people who choose him? According to a CNN poll taken shortly after the first presidential d...
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Dumbing down the Sixth Commandment (National Post, October 6, 2004)

  • October 6, 2004
Eight out of 10 Americans think it is "always wrong." Yet 25% of U.S. men and 15% of women do it anyway. It is fodder for both tragedy and farce in Western culture, grounds for execu...
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What do women want? Protection above all else (National Post, September 29, 2004)

  • September 29, 2004
In the three U.S. presidential debates -- the first of them, on foreign affairs, is tomorrow night -- John Kerry will have to follow through on his boast of being a "good closer" to ...
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What is Britain without the hunt? (National Post, September 22, 2004)

  • September 22, 2004
Last week, Britain's House of Commons adopted legislation to ban fox hunting in England and Wales in 2006. (It is already banned in Scotland.) The Queen is not amused, but polls indi...
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My appetite for fiction is dwindling (National Post, September 1, 2004)

  • September 1, 2004
A week ago, if you had asked me if I was an avid reader, I would have unthinkingly replied that of course I was. But, according to a recently released U.S. government study titled Re...
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The Canadian way to Olympic excellence (National Post, August 25, 2004)

  • August 25, 2004
As the Summer Olympics unfold in generally disappointing fashion, many Canadian hands are being wrung over the meagre funding of our athletes. But elite athletes are trees in a sport...
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Stop subsidizing the horsey set (National Post, August 18, 2004)

  • August 18, 2004
Several commentators have noted that Canada spends far less on sports than many other nations. Rather than spending more, as is generally suggested, we might be better served by simp...
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Paying the price for late motherhood (National Post, August 11, 2004)

  • August 11, 2004
Halle Berry wants a baby, but intends to wait until she is 40. That's a foolish decision: The odds of conceiving at 40 are low. Indeed, her attitude is telling of the general ignoran...
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