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    Apr 15, 2012 |Story| Herald Mail

  1. HCC faculty group to show documentary 'Waste Land' Friday at Kepler Theater

    Faculty in the art department at Hagerstown Community College are partnering with students in the HCC Science Club to show the documentary “Waste Land”  Friday at 7 p.m. at Kepler Theater. According to the film website, “Waste Land&...

    Tags: Ecosystems, Documentary (genre), Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Waste Land (movie)

    2. May 4, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. Essay: Collins' coming out could accelerate gay acceptance

    There was a time, in 1947 and before, when the mere presence of an African-American on a Major League Baseball team was enough to shake the game and the nation alike. Six years after Jackie Robinson smashed the sport's color barrier that year, still...

    Tags: Sports Illustrated, National Hockey League, Arts and Culture, Jackie Robinson, Magic Johnson

    3. Apr 14, 2013 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  3. Tea party attempting to remake itself

    The tea party, facing lagging interest, is searching for a path to renewed relevance. Gone are the annual April 15 mass rallies protesting taxes and government spending. New leaders are changing priorities in Broward and Palm Beach county chapters....

    Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pembroke Pines, Personal Weapon Control

    4. Apr 3, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. Rosenthal: Food fights that can color an entire industry

    Kraft Foods Group, you may have heard, is engaged in a dust-up with more than 275,000 online petitioners unconvinced by the food giant's assertion that dyes used to produce the distinctive orange hue in one version of its Macaroni & Cheese pose no...

    Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Personal Weapon Control, Consumer Goods Industries

    5. Mar 26, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Gay marriage goes before the U.S. Supreme Court today

    SAN FRANCISCO — As the battle over gay marriage takes center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, a new survey shows that attitudes on same-sex marriage have shifted rapidly.
    SAN FRANCISCO — As the battle over gay marriage takes center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, a new survey shows that attitudes on same-sex marriage have shifted rapidly. Polling data consistently show that knowing a gay person is a...

    Tags: John G. Roberts, Jr., Marriage, Mitt Romney, Medical Research, Gay Rights

    6. Mar 26, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. 'Scoop' follows Jack Nelson's rise to civil rights crusader

    At the top of great social movements, charismatic leaders spin out visions of things that just might be. Closer to the bottom, it's journalists who sometimes force us to confront the way things are.
    At the top of great social movements, charismatic leaders spin out visions of things that just might be. Closer to the bottom, it's journalists who sometimes force us to confront the way things are. Jack Nelson was one of the best journalists of the...

    Tags: Corporate Crime, U.S. Congress, Hospitals and Clinics, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Awards and Prizes

    7. Mar 25, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Chief Justice Roberts' lesbian cousin hopes for gay marriage win

    SAN FRANCISCO – For Ohio senator Rob Portman, knowing that his son was gay helped change Portman's mind. For President Obama, talking with gay White House staffers and learning that his daughters’ friends had same-sex parents proved...

    Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Marriage, Elections, Judges, Harvey Milk

    8. Mar 24, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  8. Ravens LB Brendon Ayanbadejo appears on 'Face the Nation' on CBS

    The Baltimore Sun
    Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo appeared on 'Face the Nation' with Bob Schieffer on CBS Sunday morning. Ayanbadejo was part of a panel discussion on same-sex marriage. Read the complete transcript below. Bob Schieffer: Good morning, again, this...

    Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Marriage, Arts and Culture, Social Sciences, Judges

    9. Mar 8, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. 'The Accursed' by Joyce Carol Oates: An engrossing throwback

    In her long and famously prolific career as a novelist, Joyce Carol Oates has worked in many different modes, from the social realism of her National Book Award-winning "them" (1969) and the neo-Gothic storytelling of "Bellefleur" (1980) to the dreamlike historical fiction of "Black Water" (1992) and "Blonde" (2000), both finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. In "The Accursed," Oates combines elements of all of these styles in a bravura performance that has yielded her best, most entertaining and engrossing novel in years.
    In her long and famously prolific career as a novelist, Joyce Carol Oates has worked in many different modes, from the social realism of her National Book Award-winning "them" (1969) and the neo-Gothic storytelling of "Bellefleur" (1980) to the...

    Tags: Mark Twain, Government, Vampires (supernatural entitiess), Arts and Culture, Racism

    10. Dec 30, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  10. Tea party down but not out

    Reports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated.
    Reports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated. For about two years now, certain observers have been declaring the demise of this insurgent tendency within the Republican Party. However, despite recent headlines, we should expect to...

    Tags: Todd Akin, Parties and Movements, Elections, Jim DeMint, Sheldon Adelson

    11. Dec 11, 2012 |Story| Aberdeen News

  11. Column: Tea party down but not out

    Reports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated.  For about two years now, certain observers have been declaring the demise of this insurgent tendency within the Republican Party. However, despite recent headlines, we should expect to hear...

    Tags: Jim DeMint, Elections, Tea Party Movement, Karl Rove, Periodicals

    12. Dec 11, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  12. Yale Students Push For Divesting in Fossil Fuels

    Back in the 1980s, “divestment” was a term for a student-driven campaign to force colleges and universities to end their financial connections to companies doing business with South Africa’s brutal white apartheid regime.
    Back in the 1980s, “divestment” was a term for a student-driven campaign to force colleges and universities to end their financial connections to companies doing business with South Africa’s brutal white apartheid regime. Today, the...

    Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Energy and Resource Industries, Ecosystems, Activism, Environmental Issues

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