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Eckstrom: Evening gives feeling that spring is here
Commentary, Local Columnists
Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Apr 02, 2014
Cresting the top of the dike at the end of Grossman Avenue, I was reveling in the fact that my face wasn’t almost being peeled off by a bitter wind. J...
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Rafael Correa takes on the Ivy League
Commentary, Nation World
Glenn Garvin 
Apr 02, 2014
Ecuador’s tumultuously left-wing president Rafael Correa will give speeches at Harvard and Yale next week. This will probably be interesting, because ...
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Dietary committee’s unpalatable agenda
Commentary, Nation World
E.C. Pasour Jr. 
Apr 01, 2014
When the federal Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee met last month in Washington, most Americans were unaware of the proceedings. But all Americans...
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Chuck Hagel — the Asia pivot is still on
Commentary, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS 
Mar 31, 2014
Russian troops are massing menacingly on Ukraine’s eastern border. The civil war in Syria is still raging, and 33,000 American troops fight on in Afgh...
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Who should be deported?
Commentary, Nation World
John Sandweg 
Mar 31, 2014
President Barack Obama recently directed Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson to examine U.S. immigration enforcement policies to see how the de...
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Behind the American oligarchy
Commentary, Nation World
GENE LYONS 
Mar 28, 2014
Let’s put it this way: If the Koch Brothers were Russians, we’d call them oligarchs: grasping barbarians exercising crude political power. But this is...
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Dynasties aren’t what’s best for democracy
Commentary, Nation World
JONATHAN ZIMMERMAN 
Mar 28, 2014
A few years ago, I found myself sitting on an airplane next to a gentleman from Egypt. Talk quickly turned to the upheaval in his country, where the s...
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You’ve been invited to an antisocial
Commentary, Nation World
JIM MULLEN 
Mar 28, 2014
Almost every day, I hear parents and grandparents and people on television complain about how cellphones, smartphones, texting, streaming, Facebooking...
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Think Viking, think pillaging and laughter
Commentary, Nation World
Reg Henry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Mar 27, 2014
Sometimes our view of the world is completely shaken by new theories. That has happened to me with the Vikings. You will remember the Vikings: fierce ...
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Donohue: Who’ll emerge  as new owner of the Bills?
Commentary, Local Columnists
DARLENE M. DONOHUE, Olean Times Herald 
Mar 27, 2014
Ralph Wilson, founder and only owner the Buffalo Bills football team has ever known, is dead. I’d had nearly 24 hours to process this news, yet, as a ...
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RTW: Wonderful job on ‘Beauty and the Beast’ at Olean High
Commentary, Entertainment, Readers Turn To Write
MARIANNE McCARTHY, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Mar 27, 2014
I always eagerly await, from one year to the next, the annual student musical at Olean High School. This year’s presentation was “Beauty and the Beast...
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Welcome, Professor Bieber
Commentary, Nation World
Carol Muske-Dukes 
Mar 26, 2014
Justin Bieber has been lowering the behavior bar lately (against stiff competition) in the struggle for top slot in the Annoying Celebrity Act-Out sta...
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