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Suzanne Fields (Feb 17, 2012)
Only Americans of a certain age remember what the holiday on the third Monday in February is all about. I asked a few high-school students the other day what it is, exactly,... more
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Suzanne Fields (Feb 10, 2012)
Every campaign has a storyline, a theme -- one written by the candidate's spinners, another by the opposition's trimmers and one, usually the accurate one, hidden... more
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Suzanne Fields (Feb 03, 2012)
"I don't smoke, and I don't chew, and I don't go out with girls who do." My, how times have changed since kids amused each other with schoolyard... more
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Suzanne Fields (Jan 27, 2012)
There's a debate just behind the Republican search for a winning candidate, just at the edges of President Obama's campaign for re-election, about whether America is... more
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Suzanne Fields (Jan 20, 2012)
Presidential campaigns are notorious for unleashing scurrilous rhetoric. Only George Washington was elected as an uncontroversial reflection of the nation's will. Then we got... more
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Suzanne Fields (Jan 13, 2012)
Mitt Romney is learning what candidates before him learned. Small mistakes count, but usually not for much. But big ones can put a man down for the count. Right now, his... more
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Suzanne Fields (Jan 06, 2012)
What a country. Between the tears and triumphs, the angry accusations and the grudging admiration, the repetitive epithets and the evocative patriotism, the race in Iowa ends... more