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Bring my son, and everyone else's, home from Afghanistan
My soldier son called last month to wish his mother and me a happy Thanksgiving. My iPhone buzzed and there he was, sitting in a gun tower, his smiling face bathed in gauzy infrared light, an M249 machine gun propped at the ready behind him. For...
Tags: Armed Forces, Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Department of Defense, Apple iPhone, Holidays
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Dann Cahn dies at 89; editor on 'I Love Lucy'
Using a newly developed editing machine that he dubbed the "three-headed monster," Dann Cahn pioneered multi-camera editing on sitcoms in the 1950s while helping to craft a classic, "I Love Lucy." "Lucy" broke ground in television by employing three...
Tags: Human Interest, The Beverly Hillbillies (tv program), Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Lucille Ball
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'Zero Dark Thirty' a complex, captivating thriller, critics say
Opening in limited release Wednesday, director Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," a dramatized account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, is already the talk of two towns. In Washington, questions have arisen about whether Bigelow and screenwriter Mark...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Osama bin Laden, The New York Times
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Curtis B. Reiber, Army officer
Curtis B. Reiber, an Army intelligence officer whose career spanned three decades, died Nov. 20 of a stroke at Saint Agnes Hospital. He was 77.
The son of a DuPont Co. worker and a homemaker, Curtis Brooks Reiber was born in Centre Hall, Pa., and...Tags: DuPont Co., Religion and Belief, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Melbourne, Anglicanism
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Women in combat -- it's time
When politicians pay tribute to members of the U.S. armed forces, they almost always refer to our "brave men and women," a recognition of the fact that women now constitute 14.5% of the nation's 1.4 million active-duty military personnel. But even...Tags: U.S. Army, Politics, U.S. Department of Defense, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice
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Defense bill includes provision for space contractors
A little-noticed provision in a massive, $633 billion military spending bill approved by Congress last week will end a decade-old battle over whether to ease export restrictions on U.S. satellite technology. If signed by President Barack Obama, the...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, China, Baltimore County, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Politics
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Judge accepts terms of Manning's proposed plea
A military judge on Thursday accepted the terms under which an Army private would plead guilty to seven charges for sending classified documents to WikiLeaks. Col. Denise Lind ruled during the third day of a pretrial hearing at Fort Meade for Pfc....
Tags: U.S. Army, Dr. Seuss, WikiLeaks, Legal Services, Prisons
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Statehood for District of Columbia could get another look
WASHINGTON -- Hail to the 51st state. Statehood for the District of Columbia is a long way off, but retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) has introduced the New Columbia Admissions Act to put the issue on the front burner on Capitol Hill. "It is...
Tags: Dick Durbin, Patty Murray, Elections, Joe Lieberman, Politics
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Obama to nominate John Kerry to be next secretary of state
WASHINGTON – President Obama will nominate John F. Kerry, the five-term senator from Massachusetts, to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state, White House sources confirmed, choosing a longtime political ally who shares much of his...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Democratic Party, Politics, Barack Obama, Richard Lugar
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Congress' defense budget and more funding for Enterprise planning
House and Senate military budget writers have agreed on a $633 billion defense authorization bill that in some cases goes beyond Pentagon suggested spending levels for programs. Perhaps most significantly to Hampton Roads (and southeastern Connecticut),...Tags: Shipbuilding, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hampton Roads, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Groton
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Scoreboard -- Jan. 12, 2013
||TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Men’s College Basketball--Georgetown at St. John’s, 10 a.m. (ESPN2); Duke at North Carolina State, 11 a.m. (ESPN); Marquette at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m. (ESPNU); Minnesota at Indiana, 11 a.m. (Big 10 Network);...Tags: Dicky Pride, Tarell Brown, College Basketball, Bernard Pollard, Jeff Maggert
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The Hagel litmus test
First, critics went after U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and unfairly short-circuited her candidacy to be secretary of State. Now, a similar campaign is being waged against former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), who reportedly is President Obama's choice to be...Tags: Politics, Judaism, Israel, Barack Obama, Religion and Belief
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