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Spence Perry: New year brings with it new dreams
The New Year causes us to look back and to look forward. To view what has been and what might yet be. For Washington County, the look back involves empires, once mighty and now gone; love stories that end in private chapels on English meadows; and...Tags: London (England), Christianity, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Religion and Belief, India
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Governments, too, offer customer service
Last week, my brother-in-law spoke at the Hagerstown Rotary Club meeting. His topic was "Business Policy is Personal." Although I did not hear his presentation, I asked for a copy of his talking points so that I might incorporate some of his thoughts in...Tags: Employees, Consumers, Golf, Career and Workplace, Elections
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Carrie Hightman is not afraid to take chances
Huddling with business and community leaders last month to recommend legal and financial advisers for development of Gary/Chicago International Airport, Carrie Hightman smiled as Adela Cepeda, an acquaintance from Chicago business circles, pitched her...
Tags: Restaurants, Judges, Skokie, Dining and Drinking, Business Enterprises
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Museums
Adler Planetarium 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive; 312-922-7827, adlerplanetarium.org America's first planetarium has one of the world's greatest collections of antique astronomical instruments. One of those is the fully restored Gemini 12 spacecraft flown by...Tags: Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts of the USA, China, Jim Lovell, Elmo
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Mollie Michala Lyman, model and artist, 1926–2013
As a girl, Mollie Michala Lyman, created paper dolls with custom wardrobes, illustrated her own daily newspaper and drew with crayons on an iron radiator because she liked the way the colors melted in the heat. "Even as a child she was unconventional,"...
Tags: Photography, Feminism, Fine Arts, Hyde Park, Colleges and Universities
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Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise
Thomas Dyja looked at me with abject horror, then humor, then, as his face crumbled in defeat, resignation. A face that said, "See? This is why I wrote a 412-page cultural history of Chicago at midcentury that — as much as it pulls together...
Tags: Leo Burnett, Willis Tower, Dave Garroway, David Letterman, Artists
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Chicago museums reeling after building sprees
The turn of the millennium was a heady time for many Chicago cultural institutions. Cheap loans, high investment returns and swelling endowments spawned a slew of new attractions along the lakefront and around downtown. The Art Institute built its Modern...
Tags: Renovation, Layoffs and Downsizing, Financial Markets, Political Fundraising, Pension and Welfare
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Dinosaur-size debt
For many people the defining moment in the Field Museum's recent history was the bid at a 1997 auction that made Chicago home to the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Sue. But that choice could have far less impact on the Field's future than another...
Tags: Soldier Field, Political Fundraising, Twitter, Inc., Biology, Politics
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A priest's faith in church resurrected
One day last September, the Rev. Frank Latzko, pastor of St. Teresa of Avila Roman Catholic Church in Chicago, decided to take a walk and rediscover why he became a priest. His feet carried him from the Lincoln Park neighborhood to France, across the...
Tags: Christianity, Colleges and Universities, Ulcerative Colitis, Religion and Belief, Haiti
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50 years of Chicago's WVON: A Chicago voice that echoes nationwide
In the volatile world of radio, almost nothing lasts half a century. But a great Chicago radio station — WVON-AM 1690 — has managed the feat: The institution marks its 50th anniversary Monday and celebrates with a concert featuring Toni...
Tags: Roland Burris, Television Stations, Barack Obama, Elections, Toni Braxton
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'Mr. Selfridge': The man who invented retail therapy
Until recently, the Vera Wang bridal shop in Singapore imposed a non-refundable $482 fee to try on dresses. And last month a health food retailer in Australia posted this notice on its door: “As of the first of February, this store will be...
Tags: Seth Rogen, Ike Barinholtz, Jeremy Piven, Grant Park, NBC (tv network)
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Jeremy Piven returns to TV in British period piece “Mr. Selfridge”
Channel Guide MagazineDownton Abbey may be over for the season, but American fans of British dramas will have another luscious new period piece to enjoy this midseason with Mr. Selfridge, and they might be surprised (and pleasantly so) to see who is headlining it. Mr....
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