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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foreword | |
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| The Sixties | |
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| September 6, 1963 Tavern Gets Taken for a Ride, and a Taxi Driver Mourns | |
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| March 15, 1966 Complete Apology for Overrating the Irish Thirst | |
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| August 8, 1966 T-Shirted Punks Slay a Dragon | |
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| August 16, 1967 Picasso and the Cultural Rebirth of Chicago | |
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| September 14, 1967 It Wasn't Our "Clout" She Stole, But a Counterfeit | |
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| October 27, 1967 Let's Update City's Image | |
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| December 19, 1967 Mary and Joe Chicago-Style | |
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| March 19, 1968 Ghetto Burial for a GI Hero | |
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| April 2, 1968 LBJ Deserved a Better Fate | |
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| April 9, 1968 Million in His Firing Squad | |
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| April 11, 1968 Are You Really a Cubs Fan? | |
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| June 6, 1968 How about Gun as Our Symbol? | |
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| July 8, 1968 He Can Dream, Can't He? | |
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| July 31, 1968 The Accordion vs. The Guitar | |
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| August 28, 1968 Cops Threaten Law and Order | |
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| November 14, 1968 Haggis? Then Try Czernina! | |
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| November 22, 1968 Haggis Eaters Strike Back | |
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| July 17, 1969 He Rockets into the Past | |
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| December 16, 1969 A Jumbo Gripe on Airplanes | |
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| The Seventies | |
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| January 16, 1970 The Kids Tell It Like It Is | |
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| July 20, 1970 A Shovelful of Bad Thinking | |
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| October 22, 1970 Let's All Drink to Bill Goat | |
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| August 20, 1971 Mighty Teddy Still the Champ | |
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| October 25, 1971 The Old Man and the Farm | |
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| February 1, 1972 The Day Slats Fell for a Girl | |
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| April 14, 1972 He's Convinced Archie's Real | |
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| October 25, 1972 Jackie's Debut a Unique Day | |
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| November 1, 1972 Viet Verdict: Mostly Guilty | |
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| November 8, 1973 Bellying Up to Success | |
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| November 23, 1973 Hearty "Hallo" from Greece | |
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| December 10, 1973 A Faceless Man's Plea | |
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| December 11, 1973 The VA Does a Fast Reversal | |
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| May 31, 1974 How This City Really "Works" | |
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| August 9, 1974 Let's Look at Immunity | |
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| December 27, 1974 How to Cure Hangover: First Try Moaning | |
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| September 3, 1975 A Hard Look at Mooching | |
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| October 8, 1975 Poverty Aid, Chicago-Style | |
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| January 7, 1976 Daley Always a Quota Man | |
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| May 5, 1976 Mr. Sinatra Sends a Letter | |
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| June 22, 1976 So, Let's All Pick a Quote | |
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| August 2, 1976 Hefner's Back--Or Wait, Is He? | |
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| December 21, 1976 Daley Embodied Chicago | |
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| February 17, 1977 Why Do Purveyors of Hate Go Untouched? | |
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| July 26, 1977 Image May Change, But City Keeps Its Traditions | |
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| April 19, 1978 Bucking Hard for the Equal Rights Amendment | |
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| July 7, 1978 Don't Let Food Bug You | |
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| August 11, 1978 The Agony of "Victory" | |
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| April 4, 1979 Bossy Cows the Party | |
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| June 13, 1979 John Wayne's True Grit | |
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| September 2, 1979 An Ode to the "Softies" | |
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| October 5, 1979 Thanks to All of You | |
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| November 22, 1979 A November Farewell | |
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| The Eighties | |
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| June 3, 1980 A Poll Cut on the Bias | |
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| June 27, 1980 Demolition Derby | |
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| November 18, 1980 Time Weakens the Bond | |
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| January 20, 1981 Epitaph for Jimmy | |
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| March 17, 1981 These Feet Are Made for Nothing | |
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| May 13, 1981 Algren's Golden Pen | |
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| May 15, 1981 Dear God: Why? | |
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| July 30, 1981 A Pact of Cherish | |
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| November 22, 1981 Mike Royko--High-Rise Man | |
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| March 7, 1982 My Belushi Pals | |
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| March 16, 1982 Don't Write Off Belushi | |
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| April 11, 1982 Survival Talk Stinks | |
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| February 23, 1983 Give Washington Break | |
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| November 2, 1983 Halas: A Classic of Grit | |
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| January 12, 1984 In Alien's Tongue, "I Quit" Is "Vacation" | |
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| March 2, 1984 A GOP Function Flush with Luxuries | |
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| March 9, 1984 Slats Mistakes GOP for GOD | |
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| September 17, 1985 A Grave Report from Medicare | |
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| October 17, 1985 If This Isn't Danger, What Is? | |
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| November 14, 1985 Abused Baby 1, System a Big 0 | |
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| December 24, 1985 A Lovely Couple, Bound with Love | |
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| January 29, 1986 These Seven Were Special People | |
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| February 11, 1986 Sorry, Reggie, You Struck Out | |
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| June 23, 1987 Fred Astaire Was a Class Act until the End | |
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| July 9, 1987 A True Hero Puts North to the Test | |
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| June 27, 1988 When "Prix Fixe" Is Hard to Swallow | |
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| August 9, 1988 Cubs Park Wasn't Always Like This | |
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| October 5, 1988 Shopping Isn't Everyone's Bag | |
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| December 20, 1988 Daley the Elder and Daley the Younger | |
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| August 15, 1989 Woodstock Was Just a Muddy Memory | |
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| The Nineties | |
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| March 16, 1990 Why Be a Writer? Think of Your Feet | |
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| June 1, 1990 A None Rub of Sorts for Ditzy Word Jocks | |
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| June 13, 1990 Flag Foes Show No Real Burning Desire | |
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| July 12, 1990 Message on AIDS Gets Lost in Poster | |
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| March 12, 1991 Kuwait's Future Brighter Than Ours | |
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| March 19, 1991 Ticket to Good Life Punched with Pain | |
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| April 23, 1991 It Didn't Take Long to Lose Euphoria | |
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| July 17, 1991 Sensitivity Pops Up in the Unlikeliest Place | |
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| December 26, 1991 David Duke Has a Partner in Slime | |
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| September 23, 1992 Next Time, Dan, Take Aim at Arnold | |
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| November 27, 1992 He Could Fill Book with Pithy Phrases | |
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| December 1, 1992 Parents, Not Cash, Can Enrich a School | |
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| December 3, 1992 Old Story Is News to Baby Boomers | |
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| October 7, 1993 A City in Full-Court Depression | |
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| November 30, 1993 Politically Incorrect, But Right on Target | |
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| February 1, 1994 We Love Her, We Love Her Not, We Love | |
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| March 9, 1994 Whitewater Almost Too Far Out There | |
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| June 29, 1994 EEOC Is Lacking in Wisdom Teeth | |
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| August 30, 1994 Not His Kind of Photog, Ferguson Is | |
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| January 26, 1995 Don't Bet on a Guilty Verdict for O. J. | |
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| February 24, 1995 Horrors of the Past Are G-Rated Today | |
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| October 17, 1995 Look, Up in the Sky, It's a Bird . . . It's a Plane . . . It's Mike! | |
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| October 18, 1995 Eloquence and Gall on Washington Mall | |
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| January 26, 1996 And It's One, Two, Three Strikes . . . You're Sued | |
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| April 10, 1996 Rostenkowski's Sin Was Not Changing with the Times | |
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| May 16, 1996 Clinton's Big Lead Easily Explained in Age of Indulgence | |
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| January 10, 1997 Arrghh! Disney Walks the Plank for Politically Correct | |
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| March 21, 1997 It Was Wrigley, Not Some Goat, Who Cursed the Cubs | |