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Sun sets on 31-year Sun career
Maryland WeatherThis past August I marked 40 years in the newspaper business, including more than 31 years in Baltimore, first at The Evening Sun and, after 1993, at The Sun. This week will be my last. I am taking a buyout, extended by the......Tags: William Donald Schaefer, Newspapers, Social Media, St. Mary's City, Rocketry
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Gore's 'green' car, $89 K -- $529 M loan
The Swampby Mark Silva We hadn't had time until now to contemplate the loan that the U.S. government is giving a California-based company backed by former Vice President Al Gore that is building a hybrid sports car in Finland that will......Tags: Passenger Cars, Automotive Equipment, Nissan Motor Co., Heads of State, Al Gore
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Obama accepts Nobel, seeks 'just peace'
The SwampRead a full text of the president's Nobel Lecture below the fold. See the president's speech here and read the full report from Oslo, updated at the conclusion at 8:20 am EST. (Also see, below the fold, the toast that......Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Defense, Sports, NATO, Diplomacy
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Nobel Peace Prize: Gandhi never won it
The Swampby Mark Jacob With a Chicagoan -- President Barack Obama -- winning the Nobel Prize for Peace, it's fitting to take a deeper look at the world's most famous awards for peaceful human achievement. The fact that they were founded......Tags: Howard University, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Jerry Lewis, Social Issues, Henry Kissinger
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Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace
The SwampBy Mark Silva updated at 11:45 am, 2 and 3:45 pm EDT President Barack Obama, who has pledged to place diplomacy ahead of confrontation and reached out to a skeptical world with offers of mutual understanding, was awarded the Nobel......Tags: Bo (dog), Defense, Sports, Ecosystems, Diplomacy
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Should Obama turn down Nobel Peace Prize?
Mayo on the Side: Broward news columnist Michael Mayo | Sun-Sentinel BlogsHe leads a nation still waging two wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has ordered more troops into Afghanistan, where unmanned ???predator drones??? drop bombs that kill civilians. Heck, his space agency even bombed the moon on Friday morning. Is......Tags: George W. Bush, National Government, Government, Barack Obama, Afghanistan
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Obama + Nobel Prize = Snow?!
Maryland WeatherFrom the brains of AccuWeather.com archivists comes the following insight: In years past, when American presidents have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the following winters have been cold and snowy in the Northeast. Not sure what the science behind.....Tags: Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Awards and Prizes, Virginia
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Obama's Scandinavian travel: Take two
The Swampby Mark Silva With the winning of a Nobel Prize for Peace, President Barack Obama will be making a return trip to Scandinavia. The president plans to collect his award in person in Oslo, the White House said today --......Tags: International Olympic Committee, Sports, Summer Olympics, Michelle Obama, Trips and Vacations
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Rush Limbaugh: Nobel 'embarrassment'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 6:30 pm EDT Among the various reaction today to the news that President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Peace, perhaps the most stunning is radio Rush Limbaugh's suggestion that the......Tags: Defense, Al Gore, Politics, April Fools' Day, Parties and Movements
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Nobel bump?: Obama's approval rises
The Swampby Mark Silva Something funny has happened on the way home from Copenhagen, where President Barack Obama lost his bid for the Chicago Olympics: His public approval has risen. Something else came out of Oslo in the meantime: A Nobel......Tags: International Olympic Committee, National Government, Recording Industry Association of America, Government, Barack Obama
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SNL: Obama not Bush, wake-up call
The Swampby Mark Silva Eyes on the Prize: When it comes to material for Saturday Night Live, it's hard to find richer fodder than President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. "This came without warning,'' Fred Armisen, the stand-in for......Tags: George W. Bush, National Government, Government, Barack Obama, Awards and Prizes
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Barack Obama: Graying of a president
The Swampby Mark Silva It could be the light. There have been flecks of gray in the hair of the president since Inauguration Day, when the new chief executive's public-approval rating stood near 70 percent. But it's the black hair that......Tags: Defense, Sports, Michelle Obama, Trips and Vacations, Economy, Business and Finance
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