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- Blogs, Bleader May 25, 2007
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The Dirty Ducks
The Anaheim Ducks -- a team named after a Disney movie -- are the bad-news bullies of this year's Stanley Cup playoffs, which begins Monday at 8 PM.
- Blogs, Bleader May 3, 2007
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Handicapping the Derby
This year's Kentucky Derby has the weakest field in years, but there are still five horses worth gambling your money on.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 20, 2007
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Requiem for a Nun
Mary Schoenfeldt, ex-nun turned handicapper, picked ten Derby winners. We won't have her help anymore.
- News & Politics, Our Town Apr 12, 2007
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Sports: Hold the Horses
The best thing about the Illinois Derby? The ostrich race.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 9, 2007
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A Ticket To Louisville
On Illinois Derby Day at Hawthorne, seven colts were running for a spot in the Kentucky Derby. But the crowd was more enthralled by camel and ostrich races.
- News & Politics, Our Town Jul 7, 2005
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Need a Portrait of Your Prize Thoroughbred?
Thomas Allen Pauly is available between phone repairs.
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 2, 2005
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Something Big Is Out There
These Parts: And an amateur astronomer downstate is building the largest telescope in Illinois to find it.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Critic's Choice Jun 2, 2005
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Colon Magic Week
These Parts
- News & Politics, Our Town Mar 10, 2005
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Chasing the Half-Moon
Bill Rossberger spent more than 30 years looking for Franklin D. Roosevelt's schooner. Last month he found it--sort of.
- News & Politics, Feature Feb 10, 2005
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Don't Make Me Sell You an SUV!
Dealer Chuck Frank pours his profits into improving the planet.
- News & Politics, Our Town Feb 3, 2005
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Camp Camp
Devotees of the world's worst movies hold a sleepover.
- News & Politics, Our Town Dec 23, 2004
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Shofar Solo! Shofar Solo!
Christians don't have a monopoly on God rock.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Critic's Choice Nov 18, 2004
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William T. Vollmann
- News & Politics, Miscellany Nov 11, 2004
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Brief Reviews
- News & Politics, Our Town Oct 28, 2004
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Keyes and Friends Wind Up Down at the Pokey
Friends blame Obama.
- News & Politics, Our Town Oct 28, 2004
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Talk Therapy
The voting rights of the mentally ill are restricted in 37 states, but these clients of a local treatment center give the lie to the law.
- News & Politics, Our Town Oct 7, 2004
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Foul-Weather Dems
Local Democrats who don't know their own ward committeemen are hoofing it around Wisconsin to beat Bush.
- News & Politics, Our Town Sep 23, 2004
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"Jog for Kerry" Doesn't Have the Same Ring to It
The Internet has spawned a new political weapon: the lifestyle.
- News & Politics, Our Town Sep 9, 2004
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Political Partying
Where'd you watch the Republican National Convention?
- Arts & Culture, Theater Critic's Choice Sep 9, 2004
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Edward P. Jones
- News & Politics, Feature Aug 5, 2004
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The Man Who Ruined Running
John Bingham, known to his flock as the Penguin, believes a marathon's more fun when you're bringing up the rear. Racing snobs blame his attitude for the decline of distance running in America.
- News & Politics, Our Town Jul 22, 2004
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The Junk Yenta
Gary Zuckerman finds new owners for old stuff.
- News & Politics, At the Track Jun 24, 2004
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Pickin' 'Em Old School
After seven decades playing the horses, Rudy Bilotta's full of advice.
- News & Politics, Our Town Jun 17, 2004
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Marketing Ggeniuses
If you want to get someone's attention, just spell a word wrong.
- News & Politics, Miscellany Jun 3, 2004
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