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Letters to the Editor - Dec. 1
Cheap stunt will not divide and conquer To the editor: This letter is in response to “Obama voters have made their bed.” (Nov. 17, 2012) It is an interesting sociological phenomenon how groups of people can view the same incident and...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Labor Markets, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Democratic Party, Elections
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Confused about trade
For decades, Americans have been told of the evils of importing energy. It sends our money abroad, the argument goes, makes us vulnerable to supply disruptions, strengthens our enemies and weakens the economy. Now, though, the tide is turning....
Tags: Energy, Ron Wyden, Nucor Corporation, Dow Chemical Co., Eastman Chemical Company
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A Word, Please: A would-be worry that isn't
An island nation you can't find on a map can threaten your retirement savings. Your health insurer could refuse to pay your medical bills by arguing you're covered only if someone drops a baby grand piano on your head, not an upright. On any given day,...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, FBI
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Viva House soup kitchen has provided 45 years of service
In a quiet block in Southwest Baltimore, a warm wind blows plastic bags along a sidewalk. Boarded-up rowhomes line the streets. A pile of mattresses rests on a trash heap in someone's former backyard. A lonely placard reads, "Stop shooting – start...
Tags: Soups, Christianity, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Stealing from yourself
The Baltimore SunYesterday, writing at Poynter.org, Roy Peter Clark suggested that our current attitudes about plagiarism have conflated relatively minor or innocuous literary borrowings with serious thefts. One of the points he identified was the clamor about self-...Tags: Theft, Book
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In a word: omnibibulous
The Baltimore SunA bonus word of the week for you, at the urging of colleagues: OMNIBIBULOUS This worthy word has not found its way into the Oxford English Dictionary. It was coined by H.L. Mencken, an inveterate foe of Prohibition and a stout defender of his Twenty-... -
Brother Patrick Ellis, college president
Brother Patrick Ellis, a member of the Christian Brothers who served as president of La Salle University and Catholic University of America, died Feb. 21 of leukemia at a Christian Brothers nursing home in Lincroft, N.J.
The Baltimore native was 84....Tags: Christianity, Leukemia, Colleges and Universities, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Harry James
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Poetic passions, tragic partings among Baltimore's greatest romances
Baltimore has witnessed love and loss. From the banks of the harbor to Mount Vernon's cobblestones to the grassed-over burial plots of Greenmount Cemetery, embedded in this city are vestiges of some of history's great romances, stories of people coming...
Tags: Tuberculosis, United Kingdom, Edgar Allan Poe, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), St. Joseph Medical Center
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The brevity of Silent Cal
WASHINGTON -- Before Ronald Reagan traveled the 16 blocks to the White House after his first inaugural address, the White House curator had, at the new president's instruction, hung in the Cabinet room a portrait of Calvin Coolidge. The Great Communicator...
Tags: White House, Petroleum Industry, Boston, Ronald Reagan, Calvin Coolidge
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What does Morgan have to do with the College Park murder-suicide?
I grew up in Baltimore reading The Sun, The Evening Sun and The News American initially for comics then on to sports and finally the actual "news." I remember my English teacher at City College, Mr. Rosskopf, teaching us about H.L. Mencken and the...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Morgan State University, Afghanistan
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Man About Town: Valentine's candyland at Sweet! Hollywood
I'm in my traditional Cupidian buying frenzy leading up to Valentine's Day, my major organs bursting with good intentions, not knowing quite where to turn, getting a little angry about it actually — the frustrations of unbridled romance, bordering...
Tags: Boxing Day, Marshmallows, Herbalife Limited, Marilyn Monroe, Holidays
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Feb 27, 2013
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Feb 8, 2013
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Feb 18, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Feb 18, 2013
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Feb 16, 2013
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Feb 9, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
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