Seems pretty much everybody's in a funk these days. It's the kind of world-weariness that makes you read the paper or listen to the news with the phrase "Yeah, right" forever on the tip of your brain. ...

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This NHL postseason has been a major stage, a coming out party so to speak, for Penguins center Evgeni Malkin, who is staking his claim to being one of the best players in the world. ...

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You see a lot of blood and broken bones in the Stanley Cup playoffs but very few cute moments. ...

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In a dark, musty corner of the third floor of Crown Antiques, just past a vintage copy of a "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Paint Book," are a slew of old cardboard boxes marked simply "HATE." ...

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It is economically, environmentally and morally insane to use food for fuel

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The 2008 campaign isn't a replay of 1988, but we've certainly seen some of the tactics before

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Sports commentary by Gene Collier ...

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Two of the men who murdered Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski during a bank heist in Philadelphia last week wore the distinctive black clothing of Muslim women. Their accomplice wore sunglasses and a Rastafarian wig. ...

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Newspapers in general and columnists in particular have a reputation for harping on the negative and ignoring happy people doing good things on a sunny day with a song in their ... ...

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Among the many "thou shall nots" of the Ten Commandments, the Almighty in his wisdom threw in a couple of positive ones to keep folks from becoming too depressed. ...

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During the last days of the Bush administration, the career diplomats take over

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There's nothing wrong with a tough fight; the commentariat ought to chill out

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