Larry Smith

LARRY SMITH OPENS HIS COLumn "When should we leave Iraq? Not just yet" (Commentary, Aug. 19) by stating, "Fortunately for all of us, the 'surge' in Iraq worked." He doesn't feel the slightest need to prove his case -- and who can blame him, given that...

For many bicyclists on the streets of Chicago, coming upon a red light or a stop sign is not necessarily a signal to halt. "If there's nothing around, no traffic, it doesn't faze me," said Larry Smith, 32. "It's a victimless crime. When you're riding a...

Fortunately for all of us, the "surge" in Iraq worked. By honorably facing the responsibilities we incurred when we decided to remove Saddam Hussein, we will ultimately get our troops home more quickly than if we had announced a linear timetable for...

THREE ITEMS ATTRACTED MY attention in Tuesday's Sun. First, I read the list of 22 members of the U.S. armed forces recently killed in Iraq ("Killed in Iraq," Aug. 19). The total U.S. military dead in the Iraq war is now at least 4,143. Then I read The...

Wall Street sank yesterday, after weak readings on economic growth and the job market touched off renewed concerns about the financial health of businesses and consumers. Larry Smith, chief investment officer at Third Wave Global Investors in Greenwich,...

Hand signals captured on videotape are once again being scrutinized around the NFL. Only this time, it's not the New England Patriots studying them for a competitive advantage, but league officials in search of a more sinister message. The NFL, concerned...

'Cookie Monsters': Buffy Feinstein's class focuses on the snickerdoodle; for parents and children ages 4-12. $5. 4 p.m. Thursday. Whole Foods Market, 1640 Chicago Ave., Evanston. Register, 847-733-1600. Randolph Street fest: Chefs Sotero Gallegos of...

Larry Smith, whose six seasons as USC's football coach in the late 1980s and early 1990s brought the high of three consecutive Rose Bowl game appearances and the low of perhaps the most humbling defeat in the Trojans' rich history, died Monday in Tucson...

As part of its celebration of "100 Years of Florida High School Football," the Florida High School Athletic Association is pleased to unveil its list of the "100 Greatest Players of the First 100 Years." This list was compiled from nominations...

The primary concern Wednesday in the bustling dining room of Sylvia's Queen of Soul Food in Harlem was about the heaping plates of Southern fried chicken and grits, baked ham and sweet potato pie. When diners peeled themselves away from their plates to...

Everyone has a story. That's the tag on the masthead of SMITH, our online magazine. Yet until we asked the world to send us six-word memoirs, even we had no idea how true it was. We took a page from Ernest Hemingway. According to legend, he was...

Barbaro's owners will return to Churchill Downs today to honor the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner on the first anniversary of his death. Neither the Jacksons - Roy and Gretchen - nor Churchill Downs would elaborate on plans. The Kentucky Derby Museum, a...