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    School choice must address the 5 percent

    Pennsylvania has a simple choice to make. We can embrace change and welcome educational reform or we can choose to satisfy ourselves with the tired old policies of the past that, by any reasonable standard of measure, have failed our children.

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    Running-mate roulette a game of chance

    The Wall Street Journal, normally no admirer of President Barack Obama, nevertheless is proffering some advice for the embattled president. Drop Joe Biden from the 2012 ticket and replace him with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “Bye Bye Biden?” intones the alliteratively gifted...

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    Big money spins major college cocoon

    Today’s major colleges essentially are de facto corporate-industrial complexes, based solely on their No. 1 sports team on campus.

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    The fall of the House of Paterno

    In the most famous passage of “The Aeneid,” Joe Paterno’s favorite book, its venerable hero Aeneas surveys the hopelessness of his situation and pauses to consider his options.

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    Child sex abuse bill wrongheaded

    The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday.

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    Tax-free charitable giving deadline looms

    Earlier this year I wrote to alert folks to the congressional reinstatement of the right during 2011 to make contributions to charity from individual IRA accounts. Today I write to alert you that this provision of the law expires on Dec. 31 unless extended.

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    Legislators need dose of reality

    Pennsylvania legislators and the governor just allowed themselves to get a 3 percent pay increase. It’s automatic, designed so that they don’t have to vote for it.

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    Gadgets diminish attention to real life

    A young woman pointed to the seat next to mine on a recent flight, prompting me to stand in the aisle so she could move in.

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    Parents: Children still need vaccines

    The following editorial appeared recently in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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    Team effort targeting concussions

    Heightened awareness of sports-related concussions and a growing concern of the long-term effects of the injury have recently come to the forefront. This injury is seen at all levels of participation from youth leagues to high schools to colleges and in the professional ranks.

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