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lawsuits as they play out. todays settlement represents vindication and accountability lies. consequences if youre a fox news viewer, you wont even know this happened. the 84 year old white homeowner charged with shooting ralph ural turned himself into authorities and was released. we dont want him out, but we understand thats part of the process. this is a standard ground state combined with completely unfettered access to firearms and implicit bias. you have a recipe for disaster. th...

CHICAGO — Writing this sentence was hard. There were so many other things I could have gone with. That set of words seemed right at the time, roughly 90 seconds ago. Now I’m not so sure. Joan Didion once said that writing the first sentence of anything is difficult but by the time you’ve written two, you’re committed and should just keep plowing ahead. The problem is, self-doubt is part of the ...

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The promulgator (a word he would likely detest) of the writing philosophy that has guided me since 1976 has left us. William Zinsser, author of "On Writing Well," is dead at 92 years old. Zinsser's book went through six editions. Each revision reflected his growth as a writer and thinker as well as technological and…

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