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The NFL's forgotten players
Sun ReporterDuring 14 years in the NFL, Dick "Night Train" Lane was celebrated for his vicious clothesline hits, his technical skill on the defensive perimeter and his fast-paced lifestyle off it. Few players were bigger in stature -- or better at their job -- than...Tags: Career and Workplace, Interior Policy, Mike Ditka, Golf, Contracts
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When in the Course of human events...
The Swampby Jim Tankersley France celebrates its independence day on the anniversary of a citizen uprising at a prison; Canada's comes on the anniversary of a legislative act recognizing its self-governance. In the United States, we celebrate a "Dear John"......Tags: Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin, Richard Stockton, James Wilson, Nature
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Walking tours focus on black history in the state capital
Special To The SunAnnapolis -- In this city of maritime culture, politics and the Naval Academy, where history and tradition are practically embedded in the narrow cobblestone streets -- something new is afoot. Literally. A unique series of walking tours that highlight...Tags: Anne Arundel County, History, Ellis Island, Sculpture, Thurgood Marshall
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Teachers want cash problems addressed
Sun StaffBaltimore teachers risked everything Friday - their jobs and their students' education - when they voted to reject a pay cut and furloughs, but some say they did it to heighten the sense of emergency and to force elected and school leaders to confront...Tags: Career and Workplace, Teachers Unions, Activism, Laws, Collective Contract
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More than meets the eye
Sun StaffSpare us that line about how those squeaking floorboards are nothing more than old wood in need of a few well-placed nails. That whistling sound? Don't try to explain it away as wind blowing thorough a crack in the window frame. Those flickering lights?...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Lawyers, Fiction, Bars and Clubs, Edgar Allan Poe
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Teachers union to vote on options
Sun StaffSome Baltimore teachers hope to rally their colleagues to vote against any of the cost-saving options that the city school system has proposed to pay down a multimillion-dollar deficit - a move that could force system officials to lay off more than a...Tags: Career and Workplace, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Lawyers, Teachers Unions, Collective Contract
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Maryland memories: Christmas as it used to be
Special To The SunTired of the same old silver garland? Not to mention those colored glass balls and twinkling white lights. We at LIVE! know just how you feel. Trying to head off the holiday-decorating doldrums, we looked to some local historic properties for...Tags: Hobbies, Dining and Drinking, College of William and Mary, Auction Service, Horse (animal)
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Union Mills is small, beautiful, beckoning
Special to The SunLocated just north of Westminster in Carroll County is Union Mills, a rural village that has changed little over the years. And that's just how residents like it, says Coral Collins, who moved there in 1975 from the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore....Tags: Hampden, Elementary Schools, Education, Schools, Health
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Generations of families proud to call it home
Special to The SunIf you ask most people in Violetville how they came to live there, many times the answer is "family." That's because the community, tucked away in Southwest Baltimore, is one of those classic Baltimore neighborhoods where several generations of one...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Family, Halethorpe, Homes, Economy, Business and Finance
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City teachers put lives on hold in hard times
Sun StaffBrian Biles hoped to stockpile a comfortable reserve in his 401(k) for his eventual retirement. Victoria A. Clausen had just begun renovations on the old fixer-upper she and her husband fell in love with this summer. And Kojo McCallum wanted to shower...Tags: Career and Workplace, Economy, Business and Finance, Burger King, Cheesecake Factory, 401K
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Charming New Windsor
Special to The SunVisitors once were drawn to New Windsor because of the so-called medicinal powers of the town's sulfur spring. But many residents who live there now boast about the quiet charm of this rural Carroll County community. "We had been living in Montgomery...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Homes, Hotels and Accommodations, Bars and Clubs
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No plans have taken wing at old fortress
Sun StaffIn 1958, a speculator thought long-abandoned Fort Carroll, seven miles south of Baltimore's Inner Harbor, would make an impressive gambling den. How many casinos, after all, have 10-foot-thick granite walls and gunports? But 46 years after Benjamin N....Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Statue of Liberty, Fort McHenry, Dundalk, Harbor
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