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A WEEK OF GLOBE OP-ED COLUMNS
Committed work in hunger’s shadow
Children’s HealthWatch found that food insecurity among families with young children seeking care at Boston Medical Center rose from 19 to 26 percent between the first half of 2008 and the first half of 2009. (By Renee Loth, Boston Globe)
The nation’s new terror
Two events in the last month have raised the terror alert to red: the killing of 13 soldiers and police at Ford Hood, apparently by a Muslim psychiatrist, and the decision to try high-level 9/11 suspects in a civilian criminal court in New York City. (By John Tirman, Boston Globe)
A tone-deaf message on mammograms
Is there such a thing as communications malpractice? If so, we might consider the case of Women v. the US Preventive Services Task Force. (By Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe)
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"The White House itself has made clear President Barack Obama will emphasize that the US war effort in Afghanistan will not be open-ended, that he will stress the training of Afghan security forces and will outline an exit strategy for a war-weary nation." (Boston Globe)
A case study in profits and job losses
Under the direction of Bain Capital and Stephen Pagliuca, the buyout of once profitable Dade Behring ultimately left the company with about $450 million in debt. (By Josh Kosman, Boston Globe)
Constant information - and nothing remembered
Americans probably share less now than at any time since the rise of the mass media early in the last century. (By Neal Gabler, Boston Globe)
Western Mass. is best bet for casino
The Patrick administration and the Legislature should not forget about Western Massachusetts when considering a home of legalized gambling. (By Brian Lees, Boston Globe)
Anybody but Coakley or Capuano
Two of the four Democrats in the Massachusetts Senate race, Martha Coakley and Mike Capuano, are career politicians. Surely the last thing this state needs is to elevate yet another government lifer, yet another professional officeholder, steeped in the culture of politics. (By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist)
Caring for the elderly
It’s ironic that at a time when thousands of Americans are struggling to find appropriate care for their failing parents, the field of geriatric medicine appears to be vanishing. (By Lewis A. Lipsitz, Boston Globe)
The candidates and the unions
In every important campaign, Massachusetts Democrats vie for union endorsements. But have you ever wondered what they promise in pursuit of the union imprimatur? (By Scot Lehigh, Globe Columnist)
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Baker and Tisei, and Bishop and Kennedy. (Boston Globe)
Ways Obama can tend bonds with India
President Obama must balance a short-term need for progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan without losing sight of our equally important long-term ambitions with India. (By Nicholas Burns, Boston Globe)
Football’s loss a win for NU students
Northeastern University was correct in dropping its football program, which will allow it to put greater resources into academic needs, as well as other sports. (By Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe)
The relentless ghost of Christmas future
In this holiday season, Charles Dickens would find that his own little ghost story, ''A Christmas Carol,'' is still very much alive. (By Joan Wickersham, Boston Globe)
Giving thanks in secular, holy ways
At Thanksgiving, the secular and religious impulses, usually taken to be antagonists, salute each other respect. Their spheres overlap. The holiday is built around gratitude, which is nothing less than the great human opening to transcendence, however defined. (By James Carroll, Boston Globe)
Crunching the numbers on bioenergy rules
The right rules will encourage the development of fast-growing grasses and trees that can greatly increase the amount of carbon absorbed by plants on marginal land. The wrong rules will encourage clearing of forests, which releases carbon dioxide and may even increase greenhouse gases. (By Vinod Khosla and Tim Searchinger, Boston Globe)
From vinyl to digital, my obsession lives on
Technology has made the pursuit of our pleasures much easier. But in so doing, I often wonder if it has made them less sacred. My kids will grow up in a world that makes every song they might desire instantly available to them. And yet I sort of pity them that they will never know the kind of yearning I did. (By Steve Almond, Boston Globe)
A green future for old buildings
Many existing buildings, especially those built before World War II, embody environmental and energy-conscious design. Of course these buildings were not designed with the fate of the planet in mind. They were frugal in design and use of resources -- the very antecedent of our modern concept of sustainability. (By Charles N. Tseckares, Boston Globe)
Sexism knows no political bounds
The conventional answer is that liberals hate her conservative, pro-life politics; have contempt for certain elements of her family history; and either don't like her Wal-Mart lifestyle, or believe she's faking it. But even that doesn't totally explain the meanness directed Palin's way. (By Joan Vennochi, Globe Columnist)
Tax cuts and fiscal discipline
The Senate race comes down to this: all my Democratic opponents will vote to raise taxes even higher, and I will not. Higher taxes will further weaken our economy and put even more people out of work. (By Scott Brown, Boston Globe)
Where conservatives have it wrong
Illegal immigration is a problem. But it can only be solved by overhauling our dysfunctional immigration laws, not by demonizing or scapegoating illegal immigrants. Those immigrants didn't come here in order to be lawbreakers; they broke a law in order to come here. (By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist)
A ‘progressive’ path to reform
I support full and immediate equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual citizens. I want to create jobs by eliminating the capital gains tax on all investments made in 2010. I want to audit the Federal Reserve to find out where almost $10 trillion of our tax dollars went. (By Jack E. Robinson, Boston Globe)
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