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The debt we owe to Stephen Harper (National Post, May 26, 2004)

  • May 26, 2004
I went to the Omni Hotel Monday night to see Stephen Harper kick off his Quebec campaign. The room was packed with hundreds of happy people, and if you were gauging Harper's prospect...
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The entire episode made me squirrelly (National Post, January 14, 2004)

  • January 14, 2004
Everyone wants to know: Would I display grace under pressure, courage under fire? But few of us willingly seek out jobs or situations to test our mettle. If you choose soldiering or fi...
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The married life is the best (National Post, January 21, 2004)

  • January 21, 2004
The series Sex and the City is winding down, and that's fine with me. I got the gist quickly, and dislike almost everything about it: the fusion of soap opera, group therapy and soft...
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The pitfalls of a moral war (National Post, May 12, 2004)

  • May 12, 2004
The graphic evidence of the horror show at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has dealt a savage blow to American morale. And to mine. I fully approved of the war in Iraq. Saddam was the Middl...
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The triumph of bad-girl culture (National Post, June 6, 2004)

  • June 6, 2004
Dating and relationship-building are in steep decline amongst today's young people. According to a teen interviewee in a recent New York Times Magazine article on teenage sexual habi...
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The triumph of bad-girl culture (National Post, June 9)

  • June 9, 2004
Sexual modesty is an inborn, self-protective reflex in girls, especially at the threshold of puberty. "Good girls" were not suppressed; they were shielded from emotional injury at ...
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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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To send, perchance to receive (National Post, July 28)

  • July 28, 2004
I started using e-mail about 12 years ago -- tentatively at first, and only to communicate with a close friend who'd moved overseas. But within a year, I got hooked on what I now consi...
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Toward a new oath of citizenship (National Post, July 07)

  • July 7, 2004
Canada Day and U.S. Independence Day elicited several columns comparing our respective ideas of patriotism. Most agreed that Americans don't brood over patriotism's meaning, they j...
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Trixie Belden - a heroine for our times (National Post, July 14)

  • July 14, 2004
I remember childhood summers for the freedom to read what I wanted for however long I wanted. For years, I was hooked on girls' series books: Apart from universal favourite Nancy D...
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Two Barbara K's and one tool kit (National Post REVIEW, May 22, 2004)

  • May 22, 2004
I was the kind of girl who was programmed to see tools as a variation of "rats and snails and puppy-dog tails," something only boys were made of or for. That notion was reinforce...
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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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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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Why Israel loses the media war (National Post, June 23)

  • June 23, 2004
It happens time and again. You're watching, say, Paula Zahn on CNN interviewing Israeli and Palestinian representatives after a West Bank raid by the Israeli army. The calm Palestinian spo...
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