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Monday, October 31, 2011

Is the American Empire at an End? (Part I)

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In the late 1980s most political pundits were writing off the United States as the preeminent economic power in the world. Japan, they...
Thursday, October 6, 2011

Don Agrella: City Editor Extraordinaire

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Don Agrella (R) & Ed "Lou Grant" Asner (Middle). Tribune Metro Editor Bernie Judge is on the left OK, right off the bat,...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

European Vacation: Part III (Getting There)

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Rome Airport (Just Kidding) So far, in recounting my recent European vacation, I have talked about the German and Italian people, the dri...
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Monday, October 3, 2011

European Vacation: Part II

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Ron at Trevi Fountain. It may be apocryphal but Yogi Berra, the former N.Y. Yankee baseball player and master of malapropisms is credite...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

When It Is All Said and Done, There Is No Place Like Home

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I just returned from a visit to Germany and Italy. And I must say, it is good to be home again. Southern Germany--specifically Bavaria--is...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

CHINA: FRIEND OR FOE?

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I began covering China in 1972--the year President Nixon made history by flying to Beijing to meet with China's aging Communist dictator...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

Nguyen Cao Ky: American Ally, Vietnamese Patriot is Dead

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When I heard the news of former Vietnamese Premier and Air Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky's death this week, I was immediately whisked back to S...
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