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Time editors discuss new book about presidents at McDaniel College
The four-story brownstone near Washington's Lafayette Park is one of the most exclusive hotels in the world. There's a fireplace in the master bathroom, and the thread counts on the sheets is high enough to rival the Four Seasons. And only four people...
Tags: Corporate Officers, Government, Bill Clinton, Newspaper and Magazine, Harry S. Truman
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The lady was a champ
MANCHESTER, England -- There is a story about Margaret Thatcher that is probably apocryphal but speaks volumes about the strength of Britain's first female prime minister, who died Monday at age 87. Following her election in 1979, the story goes that...Tags: Politics, Conservative Party (UK), Margaret Thatcher, Government, Elizabeth II
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FDR's Holocaust lapse
Responding to Rafael Medoff's Op-Ed article Sunday detailing FDR's reaction to Jews facing persecution in Nazi Germany, reader Robert Ouriel wrote in a letter published Friday that "as an American and a Jew, I found [Medoff's] criticism of Franklin D....
Tags: U.S. Department of State, Cambodia, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Human Rights, Bill Clinton
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Letters: FDR, Jews and the war
Re "What FDR said in private," Opinion, April 7 As an American and a Jew, I found Rafael Medoff's criticism of Franklin D. Roosevelt for his private comments about Jews most unfair. FDR understood that the best way to end the Holocaust was to defeat...Tags: Cambodia, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Human Rights, Abraham Lincoln, Bill Clinton
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Republicans debate message, battle bad messengers
ATLANTA (AP) — National Republican leaders made waves recently with a dim view of the party's future if it fails to expand its core support beyond white males and social conservatives. But weeks after GOP Chairman Reince Priebus unveiled the "Growth...
Tags: Bobby Jindal, Migration, Donald Trump, Elections, Bill Clinton
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Margaret Thatcher death: Tributes, criticism from around the world
In Britain and around the world, supporters of the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher celebrated her legacy Monday. Even some of her sharpest critics said she defined an era in British public life -- if not always for the right reasons. Among those...Tags: Justice and Rights, Human Interest, Government, Israel, United Kingdom
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Man who taped Romney's '47 percent' remark is 'regular guy' from Broward
The bartender did it. Who shot the infamous "47 percent" video, surreptitiously recorded west of Boca Raton, was one of the biggest lingering mysteries of the 2012 election season. Scott Prouty, a bartender, appeared on television Wednesday to claim...
Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Politics, Voting, Labor Day, Elections
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In fact-based films, how much fiction is OK?
NEW YORK (AP) — The scene: Tehran's Mehrabad airport, January 1980. Six U.S. diplomats, disguised as a fake sci-fi film crew, are about to fly to freedom with their CIA escorts. But suddenly there's a moment of panic in what had been a smooth trip...
Tags: Wallace Shawn, Human Interest, Central Intelligence Agency, Kathryn Bigelow, Dan Futterman
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FLIGHT FROM FANCY: As the world creeps in, many Casey Mennonites are splitting to start anew in Tennessee
tkleffman@amnews.comSOUTH FORK — Paul Martin is a small, wiry man with a higher-pitched voice, sharp features and kind nature that lends him an air of a wizened old elf. Beneath a broad-brimmed black hat, he is dressed in all black, sharp as tack, even though he...Tags: Justice and Rights, Photography, Arts, Tourism and Leisure, Travel
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Pull back the curtain, Venezuela
The campaign to succeed the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is underway, and as with past campaigns in that country, passions are running high. Vice President Nicolas Maduro and opposition candidate Henrique Capriles exchange near-daily attacks,...
Tags: Venezuela, Politics, Voting, Hugo Chavez, Elections
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Out of the Blue: Time for a little maternal patricide
Jimmy Carter in 2009 announced he was severing ties with the Southern Baptist Convention after six decades because the leadership clings to the doctrine that "women are subservient to their husbands, and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or...Tags: Separation of Church and State, Roman Catholicism, Human Rights, Religion and Belief, Nelson Mandela
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Helen B. Wolfe, advocate of women's rights
Helen B. Wolfe, an outspoken advocate of women's rights who also had been a member of the faculty of McDaniel College for more than a decade, died March 5 from cancer at Carroll Hospice Center's Dove House in Westminster. She was 79.
With a head of thick...Tags: Bedford (Bronx, New York), Justice and Rights, State University of New York, Cornell University, Human Rights
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