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Lay Down Your Arms (National Post, May 19, 2004)

  • May 19, 2004
I used to sing in a school choir. Invitations to entertain outsiders were exciting. I can imagine how thrilled we would have been to perform a song in a film. Here is a story of a ch...
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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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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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'Stop, Steve!' -- and other naming conundrums (National Post, June 2, 2004)

  • June 2, 2004
Naming the animals was Adam's first task, so we know that the act of naming is a grave responsibility. My father-in-law understood this. When my husband was born, "Steven" was the an...
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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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A genius in words. A failure in deeds (National Post, June 16)

  • June 16, 2004
Today marks the 100th anniversary of "Bloomsday." On June 16, 1904, James Joyce's unlikely hero, Leopold Bloom, made his way through the streets of Dublin in the novel Ulysse...
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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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Canadian voters prefer corruption to change (National Post, June 30)

  • June 30, 2004
MONTREAL - On Monday night, I went to bed stunned and depressed. I really thought this time we would throw the bums out. Pundits and pollsters fed my rosy illusions, and I'm sure their pro...
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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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So I'm a 'homophobe,' am I? (National Post, July 21)

  • July 21, 2004
MONTREAL - One hears that the scourge of political correctness has peaked, and is even on the wane. But an unsettling episode in my Montreal synagogue around the subject of gay marriage has ...
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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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John Kerry's Stalinist Campaign Slogan (Frontpage magazine, July 29)

  • July 29, 2004
  In the last days before the Democratic National Convention, John Kerry and John Edwards adopted a campaign slogan: “Let America Be America Again.” They wer...
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John Kerry, true to form (National Post, August 04, 2004)

  • August 4, 2004
  I didn't watch most of the Democratic convention in Boston last week. If it's scary political brainwashing I'm after, there's always the new version of The Manchurian Candidate...
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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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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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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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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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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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