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Clarence Page: After the hate, bring on the healing: The other side of terror tragedies

Alexander Pope’s old saying that “a little learning is a dangerous thing” is still brilliant. He might have added, if it existed at the time, especially when it comes from talk radio.

Talk radio is particularly unhelpful at times like this, when emotions are so high due to the horror of what’s happening in the Middle East.

Following the Sept. 11 attacks, I had grown

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