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''Torture's Top 10'' was what one newspaper called it. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/inbox/story/606547.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/inbox/story/606547.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT Alex Rodriguez and (his wife) Cynthia met in 1996 at a gym. 'She would come in right after work and get on the treadmill and do her abs. And finally, I built enough courage . . . and I said, `I know you are going to go do some abs after. And do you mind if I join you?' '' http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/inbox/story/605400.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/inbox/story/605400.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT For a man who has told us more than once to ''get over'' the U.S. Supreme Court's 2000 Bush v. Gore decision, Justice Antonin Scalia seems to be having a tough time getting over the case himself. He also seems to have trouble remembering the events as they really happened. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/608814.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/608814.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT PHILADELPHIA -- When the luck of the draw made him the chairman of the National Governors Association in this, the centennial year of its first meeting -- with President Theodore Roosevelt -- Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty knew how and where he wanted to celebrate the occasion. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/608831.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/608831.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT I finally drew the line at a dinner invitation. My husband wanted to try a much-touted restaurant where they present you with a platter of raw foods and a hot pot. The prospect of this adventure in dining didn't exactly thrill me. If I want to cook my own food, I answered rather testily, I'll eat at home. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/608835.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/608835.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT JERUSALEM -- Sen. Barack Obama is gearing up to his Middle East trip, meant to bolster the presidential candidate's foreign policy credentials. If I had the luck to corner one of his senior aides, and -- maybe with the help of a drink or two -- push him or her into a talkative mood, I guess I would hear something like this: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/607428.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/607428.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE -- North of Oslo, north of Longyearbyen, almost as north as North itself, the National Geographic Endeavor breaks pack ice in endless daylight through a gray-teal sea. The expedition has been cruising near Svalbard, a group of high arctic islands larger than Denmark -- in summer, a land of brown mountains streaked with snow-filled gullies, low clouds that blur distinctions of sky and land and wide glaciers reaching the ocean in gashes of bright sky blue. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/607436.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/607436.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT RUTHER GLEN, Va. -- If the 2008 election is destined to break up a frozen electoral map, Virginia is one of the most likely venues for the great political thaw. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/607439.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/607439.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT Great powers have rarely tempered their actions out of respect for their weaker neighbors. U.S.-Mexican relations are a case in point. By 1850, Mexico had lost half of its territory to U.S. expansionism, a loss that suffused Mexican political culture with a mistrust of the United States that lingers still. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/606109.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/606109.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT Satire is tricky. It makes its point by exaggerating wildly with a straight face. In inflating a thing beyond all common sense or propriety, it seeks to render inconsistencies and hypocrisies glaringly apparent. What makes satire difficult is that sometimes, people don't realize they are being had. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/606115.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/606115.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT Two longtime friends of mine died last week. One was the renowned cardiovascular surgeon, Dr. Michael DeBakey. I first met him when I was a young reporter in Houston in the late '60s, and we kept up over the years. He lobbied me to write about health issues and the importance of research. I occasionally asked him for medical advice, which he was always happy to give. A brilliant man with fingers so long he might have been a concert pianist, Dr. DeBakey invented many of the instruments now used in... http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/606118.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/606118.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT We're living through a strange and unsettling period of dread and lassitude. Dread over the economy, the rising price of groceries and gas, the falling values of our homes, the fate of our 401(k)s (if we're lucky enough to have one), the future of that fun couple Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and how in the world we're ever going to pay off our credit cards. Oh yeah, there's also that little matter of the Bush administration ginning up a possible bombing attack on Iran's nuclear facilities and the resurgence... http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/604912.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/604912.html Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT People campaign for the presidency by talking their heads off. By the time the winner reaches the White House, the habit is so ingrained that it is impossible to shake. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/604913.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/604913.html Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT The Denver convention hall where Democrats will nominate Obama holds maybe 20,000 people -- fat cats, delegates and party muckety-mucks. But the stadium where he'll be accepting the nomination seats at least 76,000 people. Come one, come all! Obama-mia! Obamamania! Obamarama! http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/604933.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/604933.html Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT TALLAHASSEE -- Unlike the golden eras of news-gathering that held journalism glory in America's past, today's tarnished time pushes a terribly changed media into a gory new frontier. We may be witnessing the death of aggressive enterprise journalism -- the kind that actually serves and protects a free society. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/603853.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/603853.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT When Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain take the stage for the presidential debates, attentive viewers may notice both candidates scribbling notes with their left hands. Political junkies will remember that such a curiosity has occurred before: In 1992, all three contenders -- George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot -- were southpaws. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/603869.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/603869.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT John McCain is the candidate who actually had experience as a wartime flyer, but Barack Obama is the one who has most successfully adapted a favorite tactic of those intrepid aviators. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/603870.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/603870.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT The biggest political story of 2008 is getting little coverage. It involves the collapse of assumptions that have dominated our economic debate for three decades. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/602077.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/602077.html Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT The U.S. Army has done something remarkable in its new history of the disastrous first 18 months of the American occupation of Iraq: It has conducted a rigorous self-critique of how bad decisions were made, so that the Army won't make them again. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/602084.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/602084.html Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT When a suicide car bomb killed scores of people at the gate of the Indian Embassy in Kabul a few days ago, the shock waves reached Washington. The attack was a grim reminder that Pakistan's army and military intelligence are still more worried about archenemy India than about curbing militants in their own country. This poses a huge problem for Afghanistan -- and for the United States.