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In college, choose to thrive
Commentary, Nation World
Michael S. Roth, McClatchy-Tribune News Service 
Apr 09, 2014
Many of us were delighted by high school senior Kwasi Enin, who made the news recently when he was admitted to all eight Ivy League universities. He a...
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Our View: Perplexing spate of jail suicides
Commentary, Local Columnists
Apr 09, 2014
It’s the kind of scrutiny he’d likely not want to deal with, but Cattaraugus County Sheriff Timothy Whitcomb appears to understand that after three in...
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RTW: Take time to explore what Olean Library offers
Commentary, Readers Turn To Write
Lana Waterman, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Apr 09, 2014
The mission of the Olean Public Library is “to provide equal access to materials in various formats, programs, services, and professional staff to ass...
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For the Internet, it’s the next logical step
Commentary, Nation World
John Cary Sims 
Apr 08, 2014
There’s a reason we all love to “reply” to emails we receive, while striving to avoid an inappropriate “reply all.” Internet addresses can be so messy...
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War on Wall Street
Commentary, Nation World
Silvio Laccetti 
Apr 08, 2014
Two years ago, protesters were occupying Wall Street. Today, according to the new book “Flash Boys” by Michael Lewis, we have an occupation conducted ...
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The meaning of marriage
Commentary, Nation World
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
Apr 08, 2014
“Charges of bigotry ... are the ultimate secular insult,” Caroline Farrow tells me. “The cry of ‘bigot’ is bandied around so much these days,” she obs...
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The pope hoes a long, uphill row
Commentary, Nation World
JOHN M. CRISP 
Apr 07, 2014
I like Pope Francis, too, though I won’t be thoroughly smitten by him until he changes his mind on celibacy, contraception and equality for women in t...
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THE VILLAGE IDIOT: Hype, hype, hooray!
Commentary, Nation World
JIM MULLEN 
Apr 07, 2014
How long do you think you’d continue to read a newspaper if every single story on every single page for the last three weeks was about a missing airpl...
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Kerry outdoes himself in new diplomatic frenzy
Commentary, Nation World
MATTHEW LEE, AP Diplomatic Writer 
Apr 05, 2014
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — More than a week into what was supposed to be only a five-day trip to Europe and Saudi Arabia, U.S. Secretary of State John...
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A question of Turkey and NATO
Commentary, Nation World
MARKOS KOUNALAKIS 
Apr 05, 2014
There is plenty to say about Turkey these days, although not on Twitter or YouTube. Both are frequently blacked-out in Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdo...
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Gwyneth needs to recouple with reality
Commentary, Nation World
Gina Barreca 
Apr 05, 2014
How do you spell conscious uncoupling? Where I came from, we always spelled it the way Tammy Wynette sang it, which is D-I-V-O-R-C-E. I had one of the...
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It’s no surprise we can’t find Flight 370
Commentary, Nation World
David Helvarg 
Apr 02, 2014
Jet aircraft are large, but not compared with the ocean. The weeks-long search for some physical sign of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is not something...
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