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Man sees race, indifference in experience with Baltimore police
I don't know how to answer Michael Hanchard's questions, but I understand why he asks them: "If we were a middle-aged white couple, rather than a black couple, and if the group of people who surrounded us were black or Latino, rather than white, would the...
Tags: Lawyers, Justice System, Prosecution, Roland Park, New Year's Day
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Pro-'choice' intolerance
WASHINGTON -- We know Johns Hopkins University is devoted to diversity, because it says so. Its "Diversity and Inclusion Statement," a classic of the genre, says the university is "committed to sharing values of diversity and inclusion … by...
Tags: Russell Feingold, Social Issues, Teaching and Learning, Education, Rick Santorum
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Young, black and radical
At first glance, Dayvon Love is easy to overlook. At 5 foot 9, he has average height and a slightly larger than average build. As he carefully takes in everything and everyone in a room, he might initially seem painfully shy. So when he finally speaks,...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Education, Politics, Elections, Annapolis
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Tracking Legionnaires' disease
The primary source of Legionnaires' disease that killed three people staying at a downtown Chicago hotel this summer is believed to have been fairly innocuous: the decorative fountain in the lobby. That fountain was permanently removed from the JW...
Tags: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Chicago Hotels, Hospitals and Clinics, American Legion, Hotels and Accommodations
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Slain diplomat from River Forest was a girl with an adventurous mind
Before she was a young U.S. foreign service officer stationed in Afghanistan, before she and others were blown up by a bomb, before she was eulogized at Fenwick High School on Tuesday, Anne Smedinghoff was a girl. The temptation now is to see her only...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Anne Smedinghoff, Al-Qaeda, John Kerry, Explosions
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Renaissance for North Avenue as arts district
When Christa Daring was a student, she rode a bus from her Waverly home and crossed North Avenue on her way to classes at the Baltimore School for the Arts. "This was always oh-so no-man's land," she said of the commercial crosstown street that is...
Tags: Baltimore School for the Arts, Mount Vernon, Arts, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Waverly (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Forcing landlords to accept vouchers won't help the poor
Human nature frequently disproves theories. Conventional wisdom, for example, says that open office space plans with workers grouped like cattle encourage creativity and collaboration. But study after study shows that people are more inventive, productive...Tags: Social Issues, Interior Policy, Politics, Housing and Urban Planning, Crime, Law and Justice
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Are we ready for myalmamater.com?
The conveyance of knowledge from one wise man to a gathering of eager young people has been the model for education since Ancient Greece, and it has survived largely unchanged in the face of every kind of technology — from the printing press to...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Teaching and Learning, University of Virginia, Book
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A plea for peace to the one God of Muslims, Christians and Jews
JUST BEFORE sunset last night in the old basilica in Baltimore, with the nation still shattered by ungodly acts of terrorism, an imam sat next to a cardinal who sat next to a rabbi, and they prayed for peace and healing in the face of terror and hate....Tags: Politics, Terrorism, William H. Keeler, Economy, Business and Finance, Metal and Mineral
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Finish school or else
Many teenage kids regard school as the functional equivalent of prison — where they are forced to endure oppressive rules, bad food and unpleasant company. For them, Barack Obama has a message: There will be no parole. In his State of the Union...Tags: Education, Politics, Elections, Rick Perry, High Schools
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West End Senior Citizens Club news
The West End Senior Citizens Club will meet Thursday, July 14, at 11:30 a.m. at Western Sizzlin’ restaurant on York Road in Halfway.
The Senior Citizens Club is open to all seniors living in Hagerstown’s West End.
For more information, call...Tags: Arts, Education, Fiction, Lifestyle and Leisure, Washington County (Maryland)
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