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Categories: Editorials, Elections, Politics, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on ‘Safe’ isn’t always successful

‘Eeking’ out a new political party By Leigh E. Rich Can a revolution occur gradually? Or must it actually involve a … revolt? It’s difficult to say when it comes to social clines. Social mores can erode or assemble with the slow, subtle means that mark the movements of mountains or the construction of a […]

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First Lady Laura Bush remarks on the economy By Leigh E. Rich What wasn’t quite touted as a campaign stop by the Office of the First Lady was nothing but a stump for her husband, George W. Bush, and his leading campaign promises to make his tax cuts permanent in the next four years, to […]

Categories: Editorials, Elections, Politics, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on Rodeo or revival?

Cheney event cast in bright light … of the Almighty By Leigh E. Rich At times reminiscent of a rodeo and at one point resembling a revival, Dick Cheney’s campaign stop Wednesday took enough of a religious turn to make even the worst constitutional scholar squirm. The backdrop of the vice president’s visit, held in […]

Categories: Editorials, Humor, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on A word from the wise

Advice from the womb By Leigh E. Rich Sophie asked me to read this for her … My family and friends, Thank you for joining me on this special day. I am proud to be the newest member of the Rich-Strear family (and FYI for all of you Riches and Strears out there, I arrived […]

Categories: Editorials, Media, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on We got game

Moore concession would be prudent By Leigh E. Rich If life is a game, then rest assured a television executive will make a primetime game show out of it. It seems nothing is no longer sacred, as one can expect to find the most mundane aspects of everyday life—shopping, dating, foraging for food—replayed nightly in […]

Categories: Editorials, Ethics, Media, Politics, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on Media for hire

Media not alone in childish behavior By Leigh E. Rich We apparently all have our price. But in light of recent events in the Washington, D.C. area and with midterm elections just around the corner, we must ask what exactly the media’s role—and responsibility—is in this, our complex, multi-issued corner of the world. Let’s face […]

Categories: Editorials, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on Shadow conspiracy

Now is the winter of my discontent By Leigh E. Rich There are only two things you can count on in this world—your unwaveringly loyal dog and a good set of flannel pajamas. I admit, I felt a sense of equivocation when I pulled the warm and fuzzy PJs from my closet the other night. […]

Categories: Editorials, Media, Politics, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on Today, ‘This Week,’ this year

On the anniversary of Sept. 11 By Leigh E. Rich My week, I must admit, starts with David Brinkley. Well, it used to. For some time now, the ABC Sunday morning program This Week has been hosted instead by Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts. But as of Sunday, they too—this dynamic duo—will turn in their […]

Categories: Editorials, Humor, Politics, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on And the loser is …

Apparently, it is whether you win or lose By Leigh E. Rich Apparently, it is whether you win or lose and not how you play the game. True, I usually am a cynic—an optimistic gloomy Gus, as it were—but what should have been a nondescript 2002 has proven my pessimism with a capital “P.” And […]

Categories: Editorials, Feminism, Politics, Social Science, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on The thinking that binds

The more things change, the more they stay the same By Leigh E. Rich The more things change, the more they stay the same. I don’t mean to climb on my tattered feminist soapbox—$48 Victoria’s Secret bra in one hand, Zippo lighter in the other—but several recent news items, from the downright intolerable to the […]

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‘Eye on News’ campus news snippets By Leigh E. Rich Mile High mess. At least that’s what Eye would say. For those of you not in the know, the current parting of Auraria Parkway à la Moses isn’t merely another malevolent plot conjured by those nefarious T-Rex officials—it’s an evil ploy concocted by none other […]

Categories: Editorials, Humor, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on Uneasy education

All aboard the dissertation station By Leigh E. Rich   (Text will be posted soon.) Rich, L. E. (2002, May 1). All aboard the dissertation station. CU-Denver Advocate. Second Place – Humorous Columns – Colorado Press Women – April 2003