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• ROBERT CAPA

  True or fake, photo's taker was authentic

  BY GEORGE WILL

  The 20th century was 100 years of amplitude. It overflowed with barbarous fighting faiths, wars enveloping continents and graphic journalism assaulting global audiences with scenes of shocking immediacy. The Spanish Civil War, although small in terms of the number of combatants, was perhaps the century's emblematic conflict. As a rehearsal for the Second World War, Spain's agony became a proxy struggle between fascism and communism, with democracy crushed in the middle. And for perhaps the first time, pictures supplemented and sometimes supplanted words as primary shapers of opinion about a conflict.

• ISLAMIC JIHAD

  Don't tiptoe around the words `Muslim' and `terrorism'

  BY FRIDA GHITIS

  On the evening after Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shot 43 people at the Fort Hood military base, CNN's Larry King Live invited the TV psychologist known chummily as Dr. Phil to help the audience understand what might have motivated Hasan to open fire, killing 12 of his fellow soldiers and one civilian and injuring 30 others. Dr Phil enlightened viewers with pseudo-scientific speculation about how war stress would cause someone to ``snap.''

• HOUSING CRISIS

  Breaking free of homeownership cult

  BY ERIC S. BELSKY

  Let's rethink the cult of homeownership in America.

  Nearly a decade ago, a colleague and I edited a book about the promotion of low-income homeownership, with the subtitle Examining the Unexamined Goal. Study after study pointed out the risks of homeownership. One used repeat sales data to look at what properties bought from 1982 through 1999 sold for in Boston, Denver, Philadelphia and Chicago. In Chicago -- which never had much price fluctuation -- only 9 percent of houses on the market sold at a loss. But in Boston, with a larger price correction, 45 percent of houses sold in 1993-94 sold at a loss. Worse, 69 percent of houses in Denver sold in 1988-89 sold at a loss.

• CUBA

  `Help, these men want to kidnap us!'

  BY YOANI SANCHEZ

  Near 23rd Street, just at the Avenida de los Presidentes roundabout in Havana, we saw a black car, made in China, pull up with three heavily built strangers. ``Yoani, get in the car,'' one told me while grabbing me forcefully by the wrist. The other two surrounded Claudia Cadelo, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo and a friend who was accompanying us to the march against violence.

• VERBATIM

  Limit vulnerability of power grid

  By XXXXXX

  Joseph McClelland, Director of the Office of Electric Reliability of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, before the U. S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment on the security of the electric grid:

• GLOBAL WARMING

  Before the deluge . . .

  BY KATY SORENSON

  Climate change is upon us and will challenge the people of South Florida in innumerable ways. At a dozen feet above sea level at most, the southern peninsula has been identified as one of the most vulnerable places on Earth to a rising sea.

• SEXUAL OFFENDERS

  Child-safety zones work

  BY JILL LEVENSON

  In an Associated Press article printed in the Nov. 4 Miami Herald we learned that Florida's Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability concluded that residential-restriction laws for sex offenders are ineffective in preventing repeat abuse.

• MIDEAST PEACE TALKS

  Obama can learn from young mediator

  BY URI DROMI

  My granddaughter Maya, an adorable 9-year-old, came back from her school wearing a T-shirt with the word ``Mediator'' on it.

• U.S. SENATE RACE

  Crist doesn't deserve GOP support

  BY ARMANDO VALLADARES

  When Florida Gov. Charlie Crist announced his desire to run for the U.S. Senate seat that Mel Martinez was vacating, Republican senators and party leaders rushed to offer him their support. They forgot that these are electoral primaries and that a true Republican and conservative, Marco Rubio, was running for the same seat before Crist's announcement.

• NEWSROOM `BRAWL'

  So, what was the worst story?

  BY KATHLEEN PARKER

  The so-called ``newsroom brawl'' between an editor and a writer at The Washington Post recently has been a fine distraction for the healthcare-weary.

• EVERGLADES

  Keep industry out of old jetport site

  BY JACK E. DAVIS

  It's like an old wound that some hack doctor keeps digging at. Just as it's healing, he goes back in. As always, with dirty hands. He is told to keep them out, but he doesn't listen and the wound never heals.

• IRAN

  Avoid a Faustian bargain on nukes

  BY FRIDA GHITIS

  Astartling chant rose from the crowd in the latest round of anti-government protests in Iran. The tens of thousands who took to the streets a few days ago, risking imprisonment or worse by defying the regime, cried out in their native Farsi, but in the cellphone videos sent around the world one can easily make out one word echoing inside a puzzling sentence: ``Obama, Obama!''

• TRI-RAIL FUNDING

  A $300 million windfall for Florida

  BY STUART BLUMBERG

  In the movie A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson said, ``You want answers, I'll give you answers.'' I'm not Nicholson, but before the elected officials of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties decide to burden our tourists with an additional $2 a day on car rental bills for Tri-Rail, I suggest they stop ignoring an annual revenue stream of approximately $300 million that is not a new tax or gaming revenue.
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  VETERANS DAY

  They paid the bill when it came due

  BY JOHN SCHLESINGER

  The morning mist hung like a shroud over the endless rows of tombstones at Arlington National Cemetery. We had come to this sacred ground this past April to bury my Uncle, Edward Kielich, with full military honors.
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  GENERATIONS OF HEROES

  Show your appreciation to our troops

  BY GENE A. CRAYTON

  Nov. 11 is a day to celebrate all generations of veterans and their families. It's an opportunity to honor grandfathers and grandmothers, moms and dads, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters and battle buddies as our American family recognizes those who put their lives at risk and, in many instances, suffered life-changing injuries for our freedoms.
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  AT LARGE

  U.S. Muslims also have died to defend us

  By LEONARD PITTS JR.

  A sampling from the web:

  ``Why are these Muslim invaders allowed to carry on freely in this country -- protected by outreach, Obama, and PC mental illness?''

• FORT HOOD

  An American, and Muslim, tragedy

  BY MOHAMMAD SHAKIR

  The breaking news about Fort Hood made me cringe.

  Like most Muslims, I hoped the shooter would be a Smith or Jones, while some smirked and gleefully waited for a Muslim name to say, I told you so.

• KARL MARX

  Reality defeated communist theory

  BY CARLOS MONTANER

  Twenty years ago, the rubble of the Berlin Wall crashed down loudly onto Marxism and pulverized it. Something that, paradoxically, confirmed Marx's opinion about theories, which he explained in his Theses on Feuerbach: ``It is in practice that man must prove the truth, i.e., the reality and power, the worldliness [Diesseitigkeit] of his thinking.''

• FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL

  A tribute to heroes

  BY TOM RIDGE and ED RENDELL

  Work began this past weekend on one of America's newest national parks. The families of the people aboard Flight 93, which went down in Somerset, Pa., in the Sept. 11 attacks, will gather at the crash site today for the ceremonial groundbreaking.
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  VETERANS

  Many ways to honor troops

  BY DAVID BRODER

  A couple weeks before Veterans Day, I went down to the World War II Memorial on the Mall to join Bob and Elizabeth Dole and a group of elderly soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen from her hometown of Salisbury, N.C. They had been flown to Washington that morning to get their first view of the nation's tribute to the troops that helped defeat Hitler's forces.

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