To Comfort The Afflicted
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    What Ebola Can Teach Us

    Columnists Arnold Hamilton - 0

    BY JOE CONASON Even if Africa’s Ebola emergency never mutates into a global catastrophe, those of us who live in the world’s most fortunate country ought to consider what this fearsome virus can teach us. The lessons are quite obvious at this point – and contain implications that are political in the most urgent sense. […]

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    Ebola And 41 Million Uninsured Americans

    Columnists Arnold Hamilton - 0

    BY FROMA HARROP With the first diagnosed case of the deadly Ebola virus in the United States located in Dallas, Texans are understandably alarmed. The patient just died. Gov. Rick Perry has established a task force to address the Ebola threat. Not a bad idea but still a feeble response coming from a governor who […]

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    Marriott’s Shameful Hotel Tipping Scam

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    BY JIM HIGHTOWER As an old popular song from the 1970s asks, what do you get if you “work your fingers right down to the bone”? Boney fingers. As the hardworking housekeepers for the sprawling Marriott chain of hotels know, that’s more than a cute song lyric; it’s the truth. Mostly women, these “room attendants,” […]

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    Stomachaches

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    BY SUSAN ESTRICH I’ve had stomachaches for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I called it an “uncomfortable feeling.” As an adult, it was sometimes downright painful. But they came and went, and I chalked it up to stress and overwork and my long family history of stomachaches. And when it got […]

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    Oh, For A Table To Eat On

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    BY FROMA HARROP I was hungry and between flights at Atlanta’s airport, “the world’s busiest.” So I wandered the corridor looking for a clean place to sit and eat something not dripping in grease. There was no such place in Terminal D. The “restaurants” were crowded bars with few seats, soiled tabletops and junk-food menus. […]

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